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by whizzter
1457 days ago
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"It depends", there's both optics and trust. A single person is always a liability due to the "hit-by-a-bus" factor. The optics solution: Don't look like a single person, hide behind an LLC
(in some countries you can look up the financials though so having money in it from consulting,etc is prob a good idea so it doesn't look vulnerable) A trust solution: You could mitigate it by having an open-sourcing pledge and/or other organizations that you list as support providers. This could be done in cooperation with other solo-developers that isn't competitors, list each others companies as support providers and give cursory introductions to them so they could take over or help customers in case of emergencies. This could also give a side-benefit of having a clear option to scale if one of you grow successful so onboarding would be quick. (Also in terms of marketing it'd give the perception of a bigger product if there are support providers there already) |
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if you have friends with established companies, you could ask them if they could be your “service partner”
i’ve done this with my friends for ever now
also note, that just like individual developers companies don’t provide any guarantees unless there’s a SLA in place