Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

Re:Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish yo... by laurent92 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:52AM (#30343851)

If the code of the app is made by remote people in remote countries, how do you sell software to the US government? What do you answer to “What is the nationality of your developers?”?

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Re:Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish yo... by urthor on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:04AM (#30343916)

I imagine the answer to that is, I've simply never heard of the US government buying from a software vendor with less than 500 employees.

Surely it never happens?

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Re:Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish yo... by hermitcrab on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:59PM (#30352640)

I know 1-man-band software companies that sell plenty of software to the US military.

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Re:Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish yo... by laurent92 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:05PM (#30353456)

I’m French and ahem, I’m selling to both US, Australian and Russian government entities. As in, .gov email addresses.

When I fill in forms, it’s often quite simple since we’re all French developers under regular employment contracts.

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Re:Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish yo... by smus on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:16AM (#30344712)

You aren't looking too hard then, 2/3 start ups I worked for less than 50 ppl sell to the gov

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Re:Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish yo... by urthor on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:53PM (#30354014)

Ah. The more you know I guess.

I assumed they went in for platinum enterprise grade support contracts and the like, only.

Or else they got contractors to make them software that they owned.

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