On: My Second Year as a Solo Developer

[cushychicken]

In 2019, I tried to do this with stone quarries[1], sheet metal shops[2], and email copywriters[3], but the first two mostly wouldn't talk to me and the latter didn't seem to have enough opportunity for a niche business.

I don't think any of these businesses would pay for What Got Done, but I think there are a zillion businesses very geographically close to you that would.

I note in several of your posts that you live in Western MA. You're two hours by car (assuming you miss traffic!), or three hours by train, from Boston. I can think of ten companies off the top of my head that fit the mold Patrick mentions as potential customers for What Got Done, that would not bat an eye at paying the upper limit of prices mentioned. (My current employer being one of them!)

Happy to help you brainstorm potential customers via email - I'm at (my_hn_username)@gmail dot com.

[mtlynch → cushychicken]

I don't think any of these businesses would pay for What Got Done, but I think there are a zillion businesses very geographically close to you that would.

Oh, to clarify, I wasn't trying to sell What Got Done to these industries. I was trying to understand their businesses to see what new thing I could create for them.

[cushychicken → mtlynch]

I was trying to understand their businesses to see what new thing I could create for them.

That's legit.

I guess the core of my original point was that there's a big regional hub of businesses whose operations you do understand (i.e. SW businesses) that's right at your doorstep. (I'm assuming from your other blog posts you don't know a ton about sheet metal bending, whereas you do know enough to be dangerous with software, but I've been wrong before!)