Re:Ask HN: Is starting a web design and hosting business via...
by codegeek on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:48AM
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"Also I've done some research, and found many landing page and website builder tools, some of them are even free."
Yes. THe question is: do you want to compete with Wix, Squarespace and WordPress ? When you say "custom web and mobile app", how do you know that Smaller businesses really need that consistently. Most small businesses are happy with a website with Wix/Squarespace and don't really need custom web apps.
So you need to go and do some customer discovery. The question is not whether you can start a web design company, the question is who will you target and what can you offer that is not already been offered as a commodity.
Yes. THe question is: do you want to compete with Wix, Squarespace and WordPress ? When you say "custom web and mobile app", how do you know that Smaller businesses really need that consistently. Most small businesses are happy with a website with Wix/Squarespace and don't really need custom web apps.
So you need to go and do some customer discovery. The question is not whether you can start a web design company, the question is who will you target and what can you offer that is not already been offered as a commodity.