Build a Custom Business Application - For $12 An Hour

When Blumsday LLC went looking for a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) app, it found Gurgaon, a company in India that caters to small businesses and offers custom software development at $12 an hour.

"I've been shopping for sales and business process software -- we are beefing up our in-house sales and task management efforts here in my business -- and have found lots of choices. The Google Apps Marketplace, the Salesforce.com AppExchange and the Microsoft Office Marketplace all bulge with software that manages tasks, organizes sales efforts can otherwise help small-business owners make money.

But one player in this crowded task and CRM field stands out: Gurgaon, India-based Daffodil Software. The outsourcing and software development firm, with 150 or so developers based about 90 minutes north of New Delhi, has created a business customer relationship and task-management tool called Applane (two users are free, additional users are $12 per month). Applane features slick Google Apps integration, the usual suite of business process management tools and -- get ready for this -- access to first-quality software developers at the very low cost of $12 an hour."