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Ask HN: Are you a web tech consultant?
I'm wondering if it would not really be pheasible to be a general-consultant with regard to people coming to you and saying "Here's what I want" and you say "Oh yeah, that would fit in this category using this stack." Then you can help them pick out a person/group to help them with their site.
It seems like you'd need to be able to develop on the different technology out there to be able to do that.
I also picture weirdly in my mind an office they walk into and have brochures that they flip open with glossy covers looking at website samples like they're real estate property or something.
I'm helping a client pick a future developer to replace myself and it is interesting this "dynamic?" of a person not knowing much about web tech and trusting/depending on you and me being able to pick out people that are competent/not competent/fake.
I am curious if anyone is a "web tech" consultant. Granted I'm no superstar myself, despite my capability I'm using old technology and closer to novice/intermediate.
- paulbishop 10y agoYes it is, it is what I do :) buzz me
- ge96 10y agoI wasn't so much asking for your help, more like I was interested in people's experience doing this for a living. Like how much do you have to know to be able to do this. Think like deploying the same app on Heroku/whatever AWS/Node/etc etc... that seems like knowing a lot, like I only use LAMP at this time and I will start to learn other stacks, I'm a full stack dev, but yeah... it seems like a lot to know to be able to consult for people and know what you're talking about. (no offense to you I don't know anything about you/how many years you have) I'm just saying that out loud / in general. edit: holy crap I see your account is new (green name) not sure how new. I wonder if I can scrape hacker news and see when people post about something and tell them "hey I do that hire me" haha. Just an observation.