I am already a professional web developer so I knew the skill, it all started with my friend asking me to build a web app for his uncle.

Currently it’s word of mouth and referrals, so I’m still figuring out how to build a good pipeline to acquire more clients consistently and scale from there.

If you have the budget, hire and outsource. If your money is more valuable than your time, then learn and DIY.

There’s no guarantee if the outcome would be exactly same as what you want because communication is a key in that and that can be mishandled from both of the sides (client and dev), if you want your developer to build the product as close as what you want, make sure that you’re explaining it to them in the easiest and most understandable way possible.

Try making flow charts, feature lists, rough UIs, user flow journeys, data which needs to be stored etc. Have sessions with your developer regarding these things as well and not just have them started with coding on the first day.

You can hire people to do the above as well but again that comes to what you value the most at the moment, your time or your money.

This is what I tell all my clients before onboarding on a contract with them, and I try to understand what they want first after I am onboarded.

Yes.

If you do can you say what you do - I offer contract web development services at the rate of $3k/month

How you started it? - I am a professional web dev so my friends know it, one of my friend referred me to his uncle living abroad who wanted a custom video course app built, so I started on contract basis and then got more referrals.

Do you enjoy your business? - Yes.

Is it saturated? - Yes, a lot.

How much you spend on ads? - Nothing

Got it, thanks! yea I guess I am not at that level right now where I can impress people like with my portfolio but I think I am in the process of that right now.

But these are really good insights and I appreciate a lot for giving it away to me.

My future plans are to improve my quality of work and also reach out to accelerators and VCs who can refer me to companies they invest in. I don’t know much about how that relation works, but I really want to know about how to build that kind of relationship with Accelerators and VCs

I see. But where do you look for these developers? I mean, where should I be hanging in order to be hunted by the likes of you?

Also, do you feel comfortable working with different timezone devs, I mean in APAC region? Any changes you make in budget if you’re hiring devs from APAC type regions?

yea thought about networking in person, but not a lot of events happen where i live. my best bet would be to join online communities i guess as i want to work with international clients anyway because pay is higher for the same amount of work

If you are not able to generate any profit nor any investment for the company in the span of couple of years, and yet you say you need a developer who’s committed to work as you are, what do you really expect?

What have you done in this time that would tell us you’re as productive as a developer who will work 6-8 hours a day on the application for the foreseeable future?

I have been building a platform for rappers and rap listeners and currently targeting Indian rappers only. If anyone would want to collaborate hit me up.

We can try raising funding as well if everything goes well according to my plan.

not OP but I am a web dev as well, and my rate is $3k/month. I can share more details if needed

If you are repelling the thought of having a website because you think it might cost you in the ranges of 1000s of dollars, I’d recommend start looking out and you may find a option with less budget range.

Not to self promote but I personally build landing pages for $500 in case someone ever needs the service and have less budget allocated for their landing page website.