It is no secret that many companies involved in the creation and development of sites, use the services of third-party developers. In a different way, this is called outsourcing (from English outsourcing - the transfer by an organization of certain business processes or production functions to serve another company specializing in the relevant field). This is slightly different than freelance (from the English. Freelance - remote work), but the principle is identical. In this case, the company does not hire workers into the studio itself, but donates the site for development to other companies located in the province (for example, Veliky Novgorod), because labor there is much cheaper.
Sometimes it comes to the absurd.
Large companies tend to turn to reputable Internet developers located in Moscow or St. Petersburg, because go somewhere in the province is simply not solid. A large company, the developer of sites, usually a good portfolio, consisting of sites of large companies. This serves as an additional argument for the customer to turn to them.
A simple example (the numbers may be completely different): Customer “A” applies to company “B”, which develops websites. Having voiced the price of 80000 rubles, which suits the customer, the company “B” proceeds to perform the work, gives it to outsource to the province of the company “C” for 35,000 rubles.
In the end, everyone is happy. The customer “A” received a high-quality website, the development company “B” receives a delta in the amount of 45,000 rubles (at the same time its participation is minimal), the provincial company rejoices in its earned money.
As a rule, development companies that use outsourcing services put their own copyrights, i.e. it turns out that they were the ones who made the site.
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There is nothing wrong with that, except that the customer sometimes overpays a very large sum of money.
By the way, an article about the creation of a site in Veliky Novgorod can be viewed
here (I apologize for the small PR).