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Cake day: October 27th, 2023

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  • As others have said, you’re trying to break into a saturated market. You’re underestimating the hardest part of the business.

    I recently launched a nearshore (LatAm) dev shop focused on startups. I’m just expanding my network, writing articles, and trying to provide value in every interaction so people see us as being a cut above the rest. I get emails and LinkedIn messages every day selling me on developers and I delete immediately. Just garbage effort from people trying to sell.

    I’d say on the one hand, very crowded space. On the other hand, with more effort and insight and playing the long game, you can stand out over time because 95% of the “competition” doesn’t even try.

    Just keep in mind the extraordinary effort required to work on the business, not work in the business doing web dev.






  • Depends on what you’re trying to do. If you want to be an indie hacker (that’s what the kids call em these days) and try building out a SaaS using a combo of low-code tools and basic coding, people have done that and a few have been successful. But depends on the complexity of what you want to create.

    Marketing, networking, storytelling, and sales are huge skills and if you can partner with a technical cofounder someone or find a good outsourcing option, you could focus just on those.

    I wouldn’t bother with a MBA.










  • Some people have said you need a technical cofounder, others said an experienced engineer, others a product manager. They’re all right. Not to be rude, but it sounds like you don’t know what you’re doing. Just the way you are phrasing your questions. Hiring a freelancer from one of those sites is going to be a waste of money. The no-node option is viable. Or you need real technical guidance.



  • I’m always interested in feedback. I’ll take advantage of your lazy Sunday :)

    https://holadev.io

    We just launched. We’re 2 cofounders coming from having worked for years in another dev shop that we helped run but didn’t own.

    We can’t post testimonials or case studies from our work since it was under the other dev shop. That’s a challenge because we have a lot of experience. Thinking that we’ll just add our story of how and why we started on the about page.

    The website and blog posts were created really without SEO in mind. More just with the target audience. But we’re thinking we need to edit copy for keywords so we can get more traffic. We are really solid operators but neither of us has a background in marketing.