Yes, it is very true. Perfection is something that I struggle myself. It is because there are so many distractions out here. And it is easy to introduce small bugs here and there. The ratio of good engineers vs average engineers is 3 : 97 according to a study. Which means the probability that your code is done by a good engineer is just 3%. In my opinion, good software engineers in India should move to Europe or developed countries where the environment is more conducive to do good work.

Maybe. I'm traveling a lot myself, so I don't have too many issue that the developer is in a different country, and I'm sure that most of it is related to cheap a* when defining the budget :-) And sometimes, it's very hard to understand another country's needs. That goes both ways.

You are right about side projects. But trying to monetize a side-project is very difficult. It is better to work for a company as an expert engineer rather than do a side-project and hoping to make it big.

I completely agree. Building alternative income streams by working on side projects, especially for developers is easy. Monetizing them is still a difficult process. Stripe is in private beta in India and I think it's invite only. Stripe Atlas is a good way to go but involves a lot of paperwork. There are other home-grown options like Razorpay but if your audience is outside India, then it gets more difficult. You can always go with Paypal or similar services and they're comparatively easier to setup. Any thoughts or advice on this @sandeep?

Ilango Rajagopal In that case I would go with Razorpay and PayPal so that I can accept money globally.

As soon as you get some revenue coming in, you can always set up a company in Delaware or Singapore. You can then use Stripe (at least until they are out of private beta), get the money and wire it to your Indian account. Looks like all these problems will go away once Strip is out of the private beta program.