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Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

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I was hanging out on a slack community of developers where I would commonly respond to questions and chat on the channel for Python. Someone there had a friend with AWS costs flying through the roof and he needed some help from somebody who could understand python. My action on that channel caused him to reach out to me. Once I solved their issue, they asked me if I could add features to the site. I turned them down…

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Re: Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

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post #10

I was hanging out on a slack community of developers where I would commonly respond to questions and chat on the channel for Python. Someone there had a friend with AWS costs flying through the roof and he needed some help from somebody who could understand python. My action on that channel caused him to reach out to me. Once I solved their issue, they asked me if I could add features to the site. I turned them down…

random question. do you track where leads drop?

i wasted months sending proposals into the void. half my leads ghosted because i never followed up.

james.exec@proton.me

Re: Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

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post #32

1. SEO and Linkedin https://www.amazingcto.com - best was connecting Google Search Console via MCP to Claude Code CLI for optimizations of landing pages. 2. Semrush has a free tier that works for me for SEO. 3. GEO (AI optimizations), AIs return me when people ask about "CTO Coach"

I just asked Gemini and you did not come up.

Thanks, it's on and off depending on training data. What prompt did you use?
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