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launch your product or website own opinion, don't judge by public opinion. If your product or service any good, peoples accept to this anyway.
I already launched my beta website pentaclay.com
As here in this community we do have talented founders, it's always better to have some suggestion or different angles from the fellow entrepreneurs.
I've seen a few designers doing this and with the help of the new AI models available the rise of productivity will make this business model more common for services, I think. I'm developing something similar to sell my service as a software engineer. Something like Service-as-a-software, the opposite of software-as-a-service.
If you are careful with the clients you bring on it can be lucrative. But it didn't seem like it would be easy to begin delegating the coding work quickly. My wife and like to take nice vacations and that would be a big conflict. Additionally at a personal level I believe it would have taken me a long time to build the staff and actually free my time up as I don't have recruiting or management experience. At the start it would take up a considerable chunk of the day. Considering all this we agreed this was not worth it.
Maybe it will work for you, especially if you have the prior management experience or timeline to begin delegating.
I spent a bit of time thinking over this for back end code but decided not to pursue the idea. If you are careful with the clients you bring on it can be lucrative. But it didn't seem like it would be easy to begin delegating the coding work quickly. My wife and like to take nice vacations and that would be a big conflict. Additionally at a personal level I believe it would have taken me a long time to build the staf…
So I do have some extra time as I don't have to commute anywhere. Plus, at some point after 3-4 clients it won't be feasible to work alone, hiring and delegating tasks will be better.
I'm also thinking about how many clients can I take if I work full-time on Pentaclay. Maybe time and experience will say.