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Ask HN: Have You Consulted with Experts?
Have you found yourself looking for technical experts and paid them to consult on a pain-point in your company? AWS Shield Advanced service charges $3,000 per month. Are there places where you go for consulting on issues of scaling, security or otherwise (besides friend referrals)?
I am building a consulting as a service company for early founders and wonder about people who have done consulting/contracting or paid for consulting. What have you found to be under-developed in this area?
- OneFunFellow 6y agoSo what exactly are you asking? Are you saying that paying for the AWS product is too expensive and you want to pay a consultant to talk about alternatives? Are you looking for flat rate consultants to answer infrastructure questions for you? Clarify your question and your goals.
- jonas_kgomo 6y agoUPDATED: Would like to know your thoughts! I was wondering, if companies can pay that much for consulting with AWS , why is consulting in general still considered something not to do , for instance VC's hardly fund any company that is doing consulting.
- verdverm 6y agoVCs don't invest because you can't scale consulting. It is by nature high-touch which you can't automate away with software.