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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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On the fly image processing & optimization.

What context and what does that mean exactly? Image processing is not usually a difficult hurdle.

As pier25 suggested, I was thinking about imgix. We (a marketplace) stopped using our hand-rolled image processing service for Imgix, and now enjoy their performance and suite of clever tricks to deliver the least bytes the fastest to the user. The impact on SEO and conversion is non-negligible.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Acquisition of high-quality clients for my software agency is a problem for which solution I'd be willing to pay 100k/year.

those are some pretty high quality clients then. What type of projects do you do. We've implemented a pretty good model for our agency to attract quality clients without networking and doing all sorts of stuff that we don't like. Happy to help.

What's your contact info?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait until you get Slack, then you can revise your statement.

I've used it for talking to third-party clients that hire us and I don't see why should I revise my statement. It just works, it does the job just fine. The only complaint is that the desktop client melts my battery but given that I run it in the browser it isn't that big of a deal. Also, I forgot to mention - we did have an Slack clone called Mattermost running and the overall response from the dev team has been pos…

You didn't really use Slack if you only had it to talk to one client.

It needs to be company wide for you to understand the truckload of channels, the spam of notifications and gifs, the poor mobile app, the poor replacement of emails, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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post #80

Acquisition of high-quality clients for my software agency is a problem for which solution I'd be willing to pay 100k/year.

those are some pretty high quality clients then. What type of projects do you do. We've implemented a pretty good model for our agency to attract quality clients without networking and doing all sorts of stuff that we don't like. Happy to help.

Would you be willing to share your model?

For me networking so far has been the only consistent way of attracting quality clients. I don't dislike networking at all but it takes up a considerable amount of my most finite resource: Time.

Therefore I'm always eager to hear about alternative approaches especially if those are more scalable than me personally having to put in time for networking efforts.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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post #80

Acquisition of high-quality clients for my software agency is a problem for which solution I'd be willing to pay 100k/year.

those are some pretty high quality clients then. What type of projects do you do. We've implemented a pretty good model for our agency to attract quality clients without networking and doing all sorts of stuff that we don't like. Happy to help.

I'd be very happy if you sent me a message about your model, my address is marius@tolud.com.

We tend to describe ourselves as "the tech team for your (tech) startup", our goal is to be a one stop shop for tech-heavy startups and companies.

We work with Node.js, TypeScript and React/React Native. We've created a bunch of quite unique libraries and components that help us develop a lot faster and with less bugs (I can get into detail over e-mail).

The company is new (founded in March 2017) and so far I just used my contacts from the past to find us work (7 developers, 2 analysts/consultants), but this source is quickly drying up. Right now we're finishing our website and my plan is to go to some meetups, but I'm not entirely sure it's going to help and I'm afraid I'm going to lose time.

Our biggest problem is that we don't have much of a portfolio, only a bunch of internal applications we can't really show. Clients I found online don't trust us and/or want our services extremely cheaply, which is a problem because our developers are senior guys that charge a bit - but that was a deliberate choice, we want to make high-quality software.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

those are some pretty high quality clients then. What type of projects do you do. We've implemented a pretty good model for our agency to attract quality clients without networking and doing all sorts of stuff that we don't like. Happy to help.

I'd be very happy if you sent me a message about your model, my address is marius@tolud.com. We tend to describe ourselves as "the tech team for your (tech) startup", our goal is to be a one stop shop for tech-heavy startups and companies. We work with Node.js, TypeScript and React/React Native. We've created a bunch of quite unique libraries and components that help us develop a lot faster and with less bugs (I can…

You can find my contact info in my profile. Basically in short, what's worked for me is side project marketing:

- Create a tiny free product, that solves a tiny problem for your target customer - Promote your side project. Since it's free and frictionless, it's so much easier to have it spread on the internets. - On that side project, there should be an email subscription form somewhere and your main service as an upsell.

This exact model is pretty much all we do and it's resulting into at least 5+ figure each year worth of client work. We spend zero time networking or doing all sorts of stuff that is time consuming.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

those are some pretty high quality clients then. What type of projects do you do. We've implemented a pretty good model for our agency to attract quality clients without networking and doing all sorts of stuff that we don't like. Happy to help.

What's your contact info?

in my profile. Just replied above with an overview.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be very happy if you sent me a message about your model, my address is marius@tolud.com. We tend to describe ourselves as "the tech team for your (tech) startup", our goal is to be a one stop shop for tech-heavy startups and companies. We work with Node.js, TypeScript and React/React Native. We've created a bunch of quite unique libraries and components that help us develop a lot faster and with less bugs (I can…

You can find my contact info in my profile. Basically in short, what's worked for me is side project marketing: - Create a tiny free product, that solves a tiny problem for your target customer - Promote your side project. Since it's free and frictionless, it's so much easier to have it spread on the internets. - On that side project, there should be an email subscription form somewhere and your main service as an up…

That's a good idea. I considered something similar, but different - I merely thought about having the SaaS app as something to point out as a reference project. Thank you for your time!

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Curious. About 1 week ago I saw a post on reddit that asked "What product would you pay $20,000 for?" I thought that was odd, typically that's not how you plan a business, you find something or create something of value and then you sell it. You don't start from how much you want to earn and then look for ways to earn that much. Now here's a similar post, what would you pay "$10,000/yr" for. You can label me a skepti…

It's a standard way of finding business ideas. look for where there is a need. hackernews has these every week, I actually think they provide interest, even if the intention is business rather than discussion.
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