Hi! I made https://RemoteHacker.com specifically for this problem :) A lot of people have managed to find new partners to continue developing and building businesses!
Too many projects I need a wingman/wingwoman
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#22Senior engineer with some contacts available. Would love to chat. E-mail is in my profile.
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#23You have three options. 1. Learn management. If you want people to do things to your satisfaction, you have to be explicit about your expectations, communicate it, monitor progress, and review results. Even if you get a talented coder to help you, he probably has different ideas about how things need to be done, and you still need to clarify who's responsible for what. 2. Give some of your projects to others. Instead…
I think you are spot on about learning management. I spoke with one of my mentors, and he feels I don't know how to manage because I never needed to. So it's a skills gap I have. I'm not really sure I have the time to invest in it at this point. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario. I also raised my fees, so that now I will only discuss projects at a minimum of €10K. It definitely helped shift some of the crap :)
Back in uni, a friend of mine interned at a place that was basically like yours. Just one guy running everything by himself.
Obviously it didn't turn out very well for my friend as he didn't really get do much. I suspect the owner however might have learned a thing or two about managing people.
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#24My colleague and me (both from Germany) are always looking for interesting side projects. Mail is in the profile, website gives a rough idea of what we do. We would love to hear from you.
Regards!
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#25Hi! I made https://RemoteHacker.com specifically for this problem :) A lot of people have managed to find new partners to continue developing and building businesses!
This is great! I wish it had more posts.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Software agencies don't scale. People in software shops know this. In fact, even successful ones, for years on end, may have just months of runway. That's literally the business. It's just how it works. The more devs you have, the more clients you need, or bigger ones. So, OP, to be clear, software agencies are lifestyle businesses. Don't expect to scale if you're working on client solutions, because that's what agen…
I think they can scale, but they require expertise around managing people, scaling companies, etc. Because I've forever been involved in software development I don't have those skills. At the moment it is fair to say it's a lifestyle company, but it could probably sustain two/three people.
Sent you an email. We do workshops for our clients on how to scale, would be happy to give you some pointers. Would love to work together as well. We're a team of co-located like minded creators, even though we've got a logo.
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#27Hi! I made https://RemoteHacker.com specifically for this problem :) A lot of people have managed to find new partners to continue developing and building businesses!
This is great! I wish it had more posts.
Thank you! Yes, I'm trying to make that happen. There is definitely a higher quality than quantity on the site right now, which I like, and people who use it seem happy, so that's nice :) Spreading the word without spending a fortune is my biggest problem to solve it seems.
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#28Hi! I made https://RemoteHacker.com specifically for this problem :) A lot of people have managed to find new partners to continue developing and building businesses!
Hi Eric,
Site looks good, I just posted on it, so real interested to see how it goes.
I think there's a need for a site like this. Are you working on it full time?
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#29Hi! I made https://RemoteHacker.com specifically for this problem :) A lot of people have managed to find new partners to continue developing and building businesses!
Hi Eric, Site looks good, I just posted on it, so real interested to see how it goes. I think there's a need for a site like this. Are you working on it full time?
Hi, thank you! Hope it goes well :)
Well, not 100% full time. I'm also working on another product together with my dev partner, which requires a little bit more work than RemoteHacker for now, so I'm basically balancing between those two projects and client work.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great! I wish it had more posts.
Thank you! Yes, I'm trying to make that happen. There is definitely a higher quality than quantity on the site right now, which I like, and people who use it seem happy, so that's nice :) Spreading the word without spending a fortune is my biggest problem to solve it seems.
Have you done a show hn yet?