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SEEKING WORK - Remote Are you the owner of a software system that has a single developer working on it? Are you worried about what would happen if they left?

SEEKING WORK - Remote Are you the owner of a software system that has a single developer working on it? Are you worried about what would happen if they left? With a single developer on your team, your Bus Factor is one - one person has all of the knowledge about your project in their head. Finding, vetting, hiring, and onboarding a new developer is time consuming, and if your developer is suddenly unavailable and there's a bug on prod, you are dead in the water. --- Hi I'm David Colgan. I offer bus factor increase as a service. I'll increase your team's size from one to two without the burden of a second full time developer. For $1000 a month, I'll provide on-call emergency support if your lone developer leaves. I'll sit in on any communication between yourself and your developer and look over all code committed to your Git repository to stay up to date on the project, and over time build up externally hosted documentation of how your system works and maintain that documentation. In the event that your developer suddenly leaves and there is a bug on prod, I'll be on-call to fix it. I'll also help you find, vet, hire, and using the documentation I've built up onboard a new developer. I'm in a number of freelancer communities and have a growing mailing list targeting freelance developers I'll share your opening with. If interested, email me at david@lessboring.com. To see more of my stuff, www.lessboring.com. Cheers!

erikig 8y ago
This is pretty great! I don't know you personally but having been on both sides of the business/solo-developer relationship I can attest to how often I've needed a go-between, a tie-breaker and someone impartial to assist in setting up processes to aid in growth.
- davidscolgan 8y ago
  Thanks! I've worked with a lot of smaller companies that really don't _need_ more than one developer, and in fact are more efficient and effective with only one developer, but still have expressed a this fear of losing that one developer since they know so much. That is something else I can offer with this service: an impartial 3rd party who is technical and can give sanity checks for non-technical business owners.
gremlinsinc 8y ago
wow, I totally want your job/business model. Sounds like a great workflow and service -- as well as a large untapped niche that is probably undeserved.
jitendrac 8y ago
hmm, That is great. If you require a developer, for few hours work a week on non-urgent basis, contact me at jitendra.shah90[at]gmail.com
vira28 8y ago
Okay, the model is good, but the things is on-boarding. How much would you trust someone to give them your database, application creds?
- davidscolgan 8y ago
  I don't really need access to your database unless there's an emergency and I need to make bugfixes. At the beginning if there is a need to get to know each other more first I can just get read-only access to your code and be around on calls.

erikig 8y ago

This is pretty great! I don't know you personally but having been on both sides of the business/solo-developer relationship I can attest to how often I've needed a go-between, a tie-breaker and someone impartial to assist in setting up processes to aid in growth.

davidscolgan 8y ago
Thanks! I've worked with a lot of smaller companies that really don't _need_ more than one developer, and in fact are more efficient and effective with only one developer, but still have expressed a this fear of losing that one developer since they know so much. That is something else I can offer with this service: an impartial 3rd party who is technical and can give sanity checks for non-technical business owners.

gremlinsinc 8y ago

wow, I totally want your job/business model. Sounds like a great workflow and service -- as well as a large untapped niche that is probably undeserved.

jitendrac 8y ago

hmm, That is great. If you require a developer, for few hours work a week on non-urgent basis, contact me at jitendra.shah90[at]gmail.com

vira28 8y ago

Okay, the model is good, but the things is on-boarding. How much would you trust someone to give them your database, application creds?

davidscolgan 8y ago
I don't really need access to your database unless there's an emergency and I need to make bugfixes. At the beginning if there is a need to get to know each other more first I can just get read-only access to your code and be around on calls.