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12,500 / week for general work (design, prototyping, sometimes building). Startups won't pay this, but large firms will.
I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person. My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.
What's your go-to tech stack? Do you find a lot of your work is crud apps?
React-Query
Prisma
Tailwind CSS
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
Caddy
I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person. My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.
For those drooling at this: you probably don't want this work. The clients who pay this amount are typically soul crushingly bad to work with, and you're under the gun to deliver 10k worth of value both to secure future work with the client and ensure your reputation stays clean. One bad experience can sink you with other clients, folks talk. IMO, build something for you and sell it vs building something for other pe…
I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person. My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.
And how do you handle ongoing maintenance/sysadmin?
On the other side of the spectrum, if you spend way longer than thought on a feature, do you stop charging or do you consider your work is still worth for them ?
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A tech seed round can easily be 7 figures these days. A new initiative at a non-tech fortune 50 could start in 8 figures. Hiring someone at 10k per week who can kickstart the project to working production system isn't a bad deal at these budgets.
Wait wait, is it really possible to get that big of a seed round WITHOUT an MVP??
But don’t take that to mean you can just walk in and ask for money. People still want to know who they’re investing in. Prior track record is key.
I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person. My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.
What’s your strategy for finding clients, if you don’t mind me asking? And how do you handle ongoing maintenance/sysadmin?
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.
I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person. My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.
you seem to be on the low side, i do 4000p/day not less
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No, I typically end up filling the roles of CTO, CISO - I can advise, implement, whatever, on virtually any stack. It’s just that in the U.K., technology skills have little to no value.
There are definitely companies in the UK that will pay competitive rates for tech. $70/hr is lower than the median contracting rates for the UK, and I'd be suspicious if someone with 20 years experience was that cheap. I'd expect at minimum to be paying 1000 GBP/day.
Part of the issue I’ve faced is that I usually start working with folks when they’re 2-3 people, and I grow them - but my rates end up stuck at the 2-3 people company level, not at the 1000+ person company level that they’ve mostly become.
I also consistently manage to get gipped out of equity, as I’m always “just madaxe”, who humbly grinds away and doesn’t feel right taking a slice of someone else’s pie.
Do you guys charge the same rate no matter the task ? if a customer wants a quickfix or some trivial change do you adapt ? On the other side of the spectrum, if you spend way longer than thought on a feature, do you stop charging or do you consider your work is still worth for them ?
For the 2nd question, if it's a fixed budget project, I bear the cost myself and take it as a lesson for the future to do estimates better. If it's not, I always inform the client that it might take a longer than the estimates if it's not something I've done before.