Hi I'm David Colgan. Yes, I do freelance web development. But so does everyone else. You've tried Upwork, you've tried local developers, you've tried your cousin's brother's cousin. What do they all have in common?
They are hard to work with.
Devs going dark without warning for weeks on end. Devs who can't actually do anything without you sitting on them. Devs who add more work to your plate than they remove.
What is the most common feedback clients say about me? That I am good at the communication part of freelancing. That I can manage your project from start to finish. That I won't just up and leave suddenly without telling you. _That I answer my email._
Sure I've built lots of websites and webapps in the past. Quite a lot of them. But instead of a portfolio I submit to you my mailing list letters, where for the past year I have written about the human side of freelancing and consulting. My goal is to teach other people how to be more effective at the craft of solo devving, and I aim to practice what I preach.
I don't really need access to your database unless there's an emergency and I need to make bugfixes. At the beginning if there is a need to get to know each other more first I can just get read-only access to your code and be around on calls.
Thanks! I've worked with a lot of smaller companies that really don't _need_ more than one developer, and in fact are more efficient and effective with only one developer, but still have expressed a this fear of losing that one developer since they know so much.
That is something else I can offer with this service: an impartial 3rd party who is technical and can give sanity checks for non-technical business owners.
Are you the owner of a software system that has a single developer working on it? Are you worried about what would happen if they left?
With a single developer on your team, your Bus Factor is one - one person has all of the knowledge about your project in their head.
Finding, vetting, hiring, and onboarding a new developer is time consuming, and if your developer is suddenly unavailable and there's a bug on prod, you are dead in the water.
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Hi I'm David Colgan. I offer bus factor increase as a service. I'll increase your team's size from one to two without the burden of a second full time developer.
For $1000 a month, I'll provide on-call emergency support if your lone developer leaves.
I'll sit in on any communication between yourself and your developer and look over all code committed to your Git repository to stay up to date on the project, and over time build up externally hosted documentation of how your system works and maintain that documentation.
In the event that your developer suddenly leaves and there is a bug on prod, I'll be on-call to fix it. I'll also help you find, vet, hire, and using the documentation I've built up onboard a new developer. I'm in a number of freelancer communities and have a growing mailing list targeting freelance developers I'll share your opening with.
If interested, email me at [email protected]. To see more of my stuff, www.lessboring.com. Cheers!
Hi I'm David Colgan. Yes, I do freelance web development. But so does everyone else. You've tried Upwork, you've tried local developers, you've tried your cousin's brother's cousin. What do they all have in common?
They are hard to work with.
Devs going dark without warning for weeks on end. Devs who can't actually do anything without you sitting on them. Devs who add more work to your plate than they remove.
What is the most common feedback clients say about me? That I am good at the communication part of freelancing. That I can manage your project from start to finish. That I won't just up and leave suddenly without telling you. _That I answer my email._
Sure I've built lots of websites and webapps in the past. Quite a lot of them. But instead of a portfolio I submit to you my mailing list letters, where for the past year I have written about the human side of freelancing and consulting. My goal is to teach other people how to be more effective at the craft of solo devving, and I aim to practice what I preach.
https://www.lessboring.com/letters/
If you'd like to talk about a project, email me at [email protected]. Cheers!
For more specifics on my freelancing, see
https://www.lessboring.com/freelancing/