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Your web project has a date your team cannot make: a launch already announced, a backlog that grows faster than it shrinks, or an agency client who signed before you had the developers. There are three ways to outsource web development to an outside team: hand over the whole project, add developers to your own team, or sell our work under your agency's brand. Each puts a different person in charge, and that matters more than the hourly rate.
I have spent 18 years in software development, and since 2017 my company, 26 Lines of Code, has grown to 70+ specialists and delivered 150+ projects. Below: how each of the three ways works with us, what we build with, what you should see in the first two weeks of any outsourced web project, what it costs, and web projects clients handed to us.
Outsource web development three ways: a project, a team or white label
| The whole project | Developers in your team | White label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who runs the work | Our project manager | Your lead | Your agency, toward its client |
| What you get | Discovery, design, development, QA and DevOps from one team | Front-end, back-end or full-stack developers in your tools and process | Our web development, sold under your brand |
| How it is priced | A fixed scope or time and materials, after a free estimate | From $35 an hour, depending on the role | An estimate per project; a client you refer earns you a commission on every project, not only the first |
| What you need on your side | Someone who sets priorities and comes to the demos | A lead who writes the tasks | The relationship with your client |
| Fits when | You want a released product, not a team to manage | You have a process and need more hands | Your agency sold more than its team can build |
The whole project means our project manager runs it, from discovery to release, and you see a demo of working software every two weeks; the range of sites and applications we build is on our web development page. Offshore web developers in your team report to your lead and commit to your repository, while we handle their hiring, payroll and equipment: that is our staff augmentation. White label means your agency stays the face of the work. If you would rather not resell, refer the client to us and earn a commission instead.
When outsourcing web development is the wrong call
Outsourcing adds hands and a process. It does not help when the problem is somewhere else:
- Nobody on your side can say yes or no. An outside team moves at the speed of your answers; without an owner of the priorities, any vendor slows down.
- The site only has to present the business. A team is more than you need: the $499 website is a package for exactly that, with an admin where you change every text, picture and page yourself.
- The job is one fix, once. A broken form or a site that stopped loading is upkeep, not a project: outsourced IT support takes it for a monthly price.
Offshore web developers in your team: how it starts
Outsourcing to offshore web developers works when your lead has more tasks than hands. It starts in five steps:
- A call: the roles, the stack, for how long, and who leads on your side.
- People and price: the specialists for each role and the price of each, free, before any contract.
- The contract with our US company, and an NDA first if you ask.
- The first week: on outsourced development and staff augmentation, if it does not work for you, you stop and do not pay for it; anyone who is not a fit is replaced at no cost.
- Every week after: your rituals and your lead, while an account manager on our side watches the quality.
Front-end, back-end and full-stack developers are the usual request; QA engineers, UI/UX designers, DevOps engineers and project managers join when the project needs them. Rates start at $35 an hour, depending on the role.
What our web developers build with
One team writes the front end, the back end and the integrations, so a feature never waits on a second vendor:
- Front end: React, Next.js, Vue.
- Back end: Django, FastAPI, Laravel.
- Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Supabase.
- Payments, messages and sign-in: Stripe, Twilio, Auth0.
For a new project, the stack is chosen in discovery, together with the final requirements and the screens, before the build starts.
White label: how agencies resell our web development
When an agency works with a web development outsourcing company, two models are on the table, and they pay differently. In white label, your agency sells our work under its own brand, at its own price. In a referral, you pass the client to us and earn a commission on every project, not only the first.
None of the five pages I read for this search in October 2026 mentions white label at all, so here is what I would agree on in writing before the first project:
- whose name, if anyone's besides yours, appears on the site and in its code;
- who talks to the end client, and in which meetings;
- in whose name the domain, the hosting and the analytics are opened, and who receives them at handover;
- who answers the end client's bug reports after launch, and how fast;
- the NDA between your agency and us.
The first two weeks of outsourced web development
The first two weeks tell you whether outsourcing will work. Whichever company you outsource web development to, us included, here is what I would expect to have by then, and what should worry you. Forward it to whoever will manage the vendor on your side.
| When | What you should have | What should worry you |
|---|---|---|
| Before the contract | Questions about your project, then an estimate with its assumptions | A price after one call, with no questions asked |
| Day one | The names of the people on your project and a way to reach each of them | Everything routed through a salesperson |
| Week one | Access to what exists, the work cut into small tasks, your first questions answered | Silence until "it will be ready soon" |
| End of week two | A demo of working software | Slides, a status report, or a demo moved to next week |
| Every week | The code in a repository you can open | "We will send you the code at the end" |
How we answer it: our questions come before the estimate, and the estimate costs you nothing. You know who works on your project and talk to them directly. Each two-week sprint ends with a demo of working software. And on outsourced development and staff augmentation there is no upfront payment, and the first week is on us: if it does not work for you, you stop and do not pay for it.
How a web project moves from brief to release
A first call is enough to start. It goes faster if you bring:
- what the project must do, and for whom;
- what already exists: the current site or app, its code, the designs, the hosting;
- the integrations: payments, CRM, sign-in, anything with an API;
- the date, and what depends on it;
- who decides on your side.
From there: a round of questions and a rough estimate, free; scope, budget and timeline in a contract with our US company; discovery, where the requirements become final, the screens are designed and the technical approach is chosen; then two-week sprints, each closed with a demo, until we deploy the project and stay on to support it. A new request gets a reply within 30 minutes on weekdays, 9 am to 6 pm Miami time.
Web development outsourcing in Ukraine, signed in the US
Our offshore web development services are contracted in the US: you sign with our US company in Miami, the delivery center is near Kyiv, and our EU company is in Tallinn. Offshore website development worries people mostly because of the hours, so here they are. The day near Kyiv usually starts seven hours before Miami's, so a Miami morning falls in our afternoon: a call at 9 am your time is a call at 4 pm ours.
A project manager from our team runs an outsourced project. You also know each developer and write to them directly, so a question about a button does not travel through three people. Clients rate us 5.0 on Clutch from 26 verified reviews (as of September 2026), and not one of those reviews is negative.
What web development outsourcing projects cost
- A whole project: priced from your scope after a free estimate, as a fixed scope or by time and materials. You pay every two weeks, or by milestones on a fixed price.
- Developers in your team: from $35 an hour, depending on the role.
- A web application: a first version from $5,000; more on web app outsourcing.
- A business website that only has to present the company: from $499, paid upfront, as a package with its own terms; the $499 website article linked above lists them.
In October 2026 I read the five pages selling web development outsourcing services that Google showed me for this search. Only one publishes starting prices of its own, and the lowest is $20,000, for a custom corporate website. Five pages are a small sample, so read it as a reason to ask for a starting price, not as a statistic.
Web projects clients handed to us
- Buhgalteria na doloni. An accounting firm's site with a deadline calendar clients subscribe to, three tax calculators and 19 service pages in three languages: about two days from the first commit to the live domain, with 108 indexable pages. The hard part was moving a domain with search history: the old addresses got permanent redirects at the switch, so the rankings carried over.
- Muzychko Vocal School. An opera tenor's site with a WebGL stage and a voice test that runs in the browser: live on day one, in two languages, covered today by 144 automated tests. The hard part arrived an hour after the certificate was issued: a bot found the domain in public certificate logs and tried the admin 102 times a minute, so the admin moved to a secret path.
- PBM Source. A compliance web application for pharmacy benefit managers: new laws, regulations and guidance arrive on a dashboard as tasks with a summary, a jurisdiction and a date, and the team sorts, assigns and documents them in one place. The hard part was showing each team only what applies to it, so every requirement is marked by line of business: commercial, self-insured, Medicare or Medicaid.
After release, and what you own
We deploy the project and stay on: the developers who wrote the code keep it updated, fix what breaks and answer your questions, for a monthly price. For the sites we build, hosting and support start at $29 a month, billed annually ($348); bigger systems are covered by software maintenance. Whatever you choose after launch, the code and the design made for your project are yours once they are paid for. None of the five pages I read says whose name your domain will be in; with us, a website's domain is registered in your name from day one, so your address stays yours whoever builds the next version.
Where to start
Next to this page: software development outsourcing for products and mobile apps, web design outsourcing for a site from the first sketch, and everything we take over on the IT outsourcing page. Bring the project or the backlog: the rough estimate is free, and you know the price before any work starts.
