How to Choose the Right Tech Partner for Custom SaaS Development

Moreover, with the globalized highly-dynamic IT market, the number of potential Tech Partners is over the top, namely 26.9M developers to choose from. You can choose a team from anywhere in the world to build your cloud-based SaaS application, so don’t get discouraged! Finding the right one may be fairly complicated, as well as time-consuming.

To help you navigate through this challenging hiring process, we’ve created this guide where we’ve covered some of the most FAQs on building SaaS products, given a lot of insights on partnering with development companies, and shared some details of how we hold our partnership discussions.

💼 Outsourcing vs In-House SaaS Software Development

To begin with, we’d like to talk about how outsourcing SaaS development differs from hiring an in-house team in terms of what advantages and disadvantages each option has, and in what cases you might prefer one of the development options to another.

In-House SaaS Platform Development

Hiring a development team to build a SaaS app for your company specifically has quite a lot of benefits, as well as drawbacks. Let’s take a look at them first.

From our experience, most companies that don’t need developers every single day tend to outsource their SaaS-development-related tasks so as to have a cost-efficient partnership with the development team and spend the development budget on development-related tasks and onboarding only.

However, if you’re sure that you’ll need to cooperate with the developers most of the time over the next several years, for most of the tasks, and you have time to find decent specialists, building your own team might be reasonable.

And last but not least, there isn’t one correct way to solve a problem. Development is a complex process that requires a lot of patience and expertise. So, take your time to talk to your potential Tech Partners or in-house developers, think strategically, and don’t stop looking when you find the first suitable option. Even if it might seem almost perfect, there are definitely ways to make it more efficient and effective.
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💭 Changing your Development Team: Tips & Tricks

Another important aspect when outsourcing your SaaS development is being able to switch your Tech Partner in case such a need occurs. Reasons can be really different — from dissatisfaction with the product’s quality to communication problems. It’s also possible that you might want to update the product built by the previous team. However, no matter what reason leads you to such a decision, there are quite a lot of things to take into account.

We at Stormotion had some projects that we took over from other development companies. So, in this section, we’ll try to walk you through some of the most important steps and share some hands-on information.

# 1: Repository & Code

One of the most important things to take care of is the contract you sign with your chosen development team. You have to remain the owner of the code under any circumstances. This is essential since in case you want to change development teams for whatever reason, the new one will need the repository to take over the development.

👨‍💻 CTO Outsourcing

In case you are a CTO or have enough technical knowledge not to need one, it’s probably not going to be a useful section to you. But you’re surely welcome to take a look at it as well!

Great ideas need great technical support. You may have a perfect vision of your SaaS product, deeply understand the pain points of your target audience and have a solid business plan. Nevertheless, your idea still needs flawless technical implementation.

Interim CTO outsourcing may help you at different stages of your product development. At the initial stage, such an expert can help you pick the best tech stack for the project. Also, they can help pick the right team regardless of whether you choose to work with remote developers or gather in-house professionals. Finally, they can also guide the development and set up a stable Software Development Lifecycle for your project.

❓ What to Look for in your SaaS Development Tech Partner?

Once you start looking for SaaS development companies, you might wonder what it is that you should really be looking for. And the answer is pretty simple — look for whatever you feel like you want your Tech Partner to be!

However, this statement is only fair when it comes to personal traits of character. From the technical point of view, there are certain pillars of an experienced SaaS development company that is suitable for your particular use case:

However, there are also certain signs that can show you that it might be best not to partner with the company. Here are the red flags for potential fraud:

• The company refuses to leave intellectual property rights to you or maybe even doesn't want to sign a contract.
• They charge you way below average (for the specific region).
• They don’t provide you with references.
• They immediately agree to take the project without carefully investigating your needs.

🤝 Cooperation with Stormotion: From the First Call to Partnership

When discussing a potential partnership, there’s no unified guide since every single case is unique. So, to help you better understand what partnering with a SaaS development agency might look like or maybe show it from another perspective, we’d like to share with you how we communicate with our potential clients from the very first call.

# 4: Partners (Forever)

The last stage is pretty simple — if the client is happy with our partnership at this point and agrees with the estimate of the software development costs, we keep working together with them as their Tech Partner and building the SaaS platform for them.

💡 Takeaways

So, to find the right Tech Partner and sign a fair partnership contract for building a SaaS software, we recommend paying extra attention to the following aspects:

• Make sure that your chosen SaaS development company is experienced in the Tech Stack that you need for your project. It’s also useful if they’re experts in the industry you’re operating in.
• Already ask for advice at the stage of negotiating. This way, you can get a better understanding of the company’s approach and maybe even get some ideas for the project.
• Pay attention to intellectual property rights.
• Don’t forget to sign an NDA.

If you have any more questions or want to get to know us as potential Tech Partners better, feel free to reach out!