I'm very excited to announce that as of today, April 1st 2004, I've become the world's first micro-outsourced developer. I've hired great developers in Bangalore (GMT +4.5), Cameroon (GMT +1), Brazil (GMT -3), and Vanuatu (GMT -7). My job is to write the unit tests. I post them as binary assemblies to our Groove workspace at any time of day or night, "injecting" them into a 24-hour implementation workday. After several low-profile expirements with Rent-A-Coder "open bids," I've determined that this "4/1" configuration provides the best balance of quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. I pay piece-rate, but my guys are averaging just over \$4 an hour, with which they're delighted. Meanwhile, I'm averaging 1230 lines of clean code per day (at 30 lines of code per function point). At this rate, I am anticipating shipping my first application (a game for the Tablet PC) in time to compete for the \$100,000 ISV prize, with out-of-pocket expenses totalling around \$8,200.