💡 Unpacking the Product Hunt Trend: Services into Products

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Late to the thread, I had it saved for later. So I'm about to launch exactly that. Other than many who seem to do design work, which I think leans itself perfectly to this, I am trying this for IT-Infrastructure consulting. I've been working in IT-Infra for over 20 years now, and 11 as a freelance consultant. What I've learned over the last decade is that companies require bespoke solutions created by experts, but it's all based on replicable concepts and paradigms. So for example if a company needs a design for a cloud deployment for their product they want to run on AWS, Azure or GCP, they need someone who makes sense of the endless options and builds them a sound infrastructure. This is where I come in. Usually, companies hire me for a good 1k per day (I get 80% of that). That sounds great for me, but it's actually terrible for the companies. They often don't know better, so they on-board me, give me a company mail, sometimes even a computer and then I need to attend all their meetings and corporate stuff. I took the time and checked: a good 50-70% of my time is not spent with creating results, but sitting in those meetings, fighting with sub-par IT equipment (they often provide the oldest computers to their externals) and weeks, sometimes months of on-boarding processes. Before they get any results, they pay 20,000 - 40,000 $ - just for one person. So if I cut out the nonsense and introduce hyper-focus, I can deliver results in 48h. Not 4 weeks or more. I'm planning to launch in the next couple of days here, check out the website in the meantime (in my profile)