here are my $0.05
I live in Ukraine and clients know this.. so although I know that my services are worth $50 / hour I charge like $15 /hour
I use hourly rate only to claculate flat price for a project and then price is fixed and doesnot depend on how many man/hours it really took.
Well I could start another website and try to cheat my customers pretending that I am EU or US company and rise my prices, but this approach is wrong
What I am thinking about is to make joint venture with somebody from 1st class countries like Europe or US or UK {lots of others}
I even made little page on my website about this.
Well sometimes people email me about, sometimes they even trying to start something, but finally as far as I undertand they are afraid to make true "virtual" company where developers are in one country and coowner is in another, thousands of miles away.
Well I cant say I dont have work to do or I am looking for job. I have. The only wish is that usually I have projects ~1week-1month for ~1man. I think if I would have foreign partner I could have bigger projects, like 3-6 month for 3 men.
And meanwhile it goes as it goes
Regards,
Yuriy
N.B. There are lots of very inteligent and responsible people down here.