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> What’s your strategy for finding clients, if you don’t mind me asking? Referrals from existing clients, HN monthly threads. > And how do you handle ongoing
by joshmanders 4y ago
> What’s your strategy for finding clients, if you don’t mind me asking?
Referrals from existing clients, HN monthly threads.
> And how do you handle ongoing maintenance/sysadmin?
$10k/week, pre-paid monthly. I don't do hourly because I don't work hourly. You're paying for my skills and expertise not the geo coordinates of the chair I am sitting in for however long I am working. I charge accordingly.
The price is for your slot in my workload and that is it. Need maintenance then you pay me weekly for any maintenance work.
- rco8786 4y agoAmazing. Any oncall type of work? What if things go down at 3am?
- ChainOfFools 4y agoA client who's paying one person effectively a half million dollar a year rate to be a 'slot' in their workload, which presumably implies they take on multiple such clients at once, would also presumably not blink at pouring another 5,000 or 10,000 a month off onto a robust cloud platform to make sure things don't go down at 3:00 a.m. for trivial reasons.
- rco8786 4y agoThose huge cloud deployments are exactly the ones that do unexpected bs at 3am
- joshmanders 4y agoNothing I do is on-call worthy. I may build the product but I don't run the product after it's built.
- rrgok 4y agoJust be clear, $10K/week only for you or for your whole company time (aniftyco.com)?
- joshmanders 4y agoI would say whole company time, but NiftyCo is no longer just me for the past 25 years and now I have a financial partner. Sooooo just me now, billed under NiftyCo.