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It's not hard in my experience. Not as easy as convincing CEO to do two redesigns per year, but not hard. I work with companies operating at a large scale. Dow
by shanemhansen 9y ago
It's not hard in my experience. Not as easy as convincing CEO to do two redesigns per year, but not hard.
I work with companies operating at a large scale. Downtime costs $xxx,000/minute.
Developers cost lots of money, improving their productivity by a little bit pays huge dividends.
If the company has big events like Black Friday or Superbowl commercials, keeping the site up during those events is worth paying for.
Many not so big companies spend 6 figures per month in AWS bills.
Lots of work for a backend consultant.
- mgkimsal 9y agoIf you have the experience and/or brand/name already, it wouldn't be hard. My thinking was not so much the work, but the finding people and convincing that a) you can do the work and b) they need it done. If you're successfully doing this now - props to you! If you have any specifics you can share about how you got through a and b above... would love to read more.
- mooreds 9y agoI think you need to go through the same steps that Patrick outlined: * do work for someone you know * write a case study documenting success * repeat with a slightly bigger customer
- shanemhansen 9y agoThey usually reach out to me or are referred to me via a friend. One time I had a friend doing some work for Vodafone Australia, and he just asked me to come out for a month long engagement to help them get ready for the iPhone 5 (which turned out to be the 4s iirc). Another time I co-founded a Meetup group in a relatively new technology and a startup wanted to leverage that so they wanted some help getting started and having some good patterns to follow. So I guess I would counter what you said with experience/network rather than a brand.