Most technologists who build websites for local businesses should stop doing so. They in the main cannot afford professional labor, and should move to platforms like Shopify, site builders, etc which can amortize engineering costs over 100,000 similarly situated accounts.
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"But what about the local cafe?" I am in favor of the local cafe! Spend your money there! Even teach a pro bonus Get Started With Shopify Or Whatever office hours weekly, underwritten by being a successful local business owner yourself.
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An extremely common failure mode is running a business as a charity. This is self-evidently a bad business; it's also a bad charity. (If you were to rank order all people in the world in need of charitable help, where would local business owners in America be on that list?)
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"But I don't live in the big city." Yes, but you live on a big Internet, connected to all the big cities, and the viability of consulting remotely was fine in 2010 when I was doing it and has only increased since then.
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Not just those... but also the numerous cases where enterprises (often telcos) have tried capturing the SME market by offering “digital solutions” which included custom websites and hosting. Smh ...
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Access to Market.
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However, that kind of freelancing can also be an entrypoint to better jobs for folks without formal training, or necessary extra income for students. On a social level, I don't think we should centralize the web even further.
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Speaking from a German perspective here, don't know much about the situation in the US.
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This and your take on Geralt’s customer qualifications problem speaks to me. Kill
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I agree with you but Shopify, Wix, Square Space, et al are such shitty solutions... Plus... thats how people learn to become technologists
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If you can make a website in 2 days and get $500 and have a happy client, what’s wrong with that? How much money do you really need? If I show them DIY software they’re still going to ask me 100s of questions.
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