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Ask HN: How did you start [custom] software shop? How to run such business?
Success or fail stories about starting and running custom software shops. How do you find clients? Marketing, promotion, etc... Does website help with it? (organic search)
- marpstar 10y agoA former mentor of mine asked if I'd be interested in doing a bit of Web dev for him back in early 2013. After that, he put me in contact with his client to do more on-going small project work. Today I'm doing $35k/year with this client and have found a few other clients (actually they found me) which then led to more word-of-mouth advertising which led to a few more clients. I only recently started an LLC for this work and have started marketing my services online. No leads from the website yet but have caught the attention of a few others on LinkedIn who noticed me adding the LLC to my profile. I'm mostly interested in working with local companies (Dubuque, IA) so LinkedIn has been a good resource for me to reach out to local SMBs.