Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients?

Posted by nicholjs on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:20PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I started a small dev shop with a group of friends in NYC. We are 3 developers - we do APIs in Ruby or Scala and native iOS development. Our backgrounds are strong, and we have worked on some cool projects together and individually.

Since the summer we have had two bigger projects. Those clients are happy, but the work is winding down as we come to completion. They were both from previous connections that we had.

We are finding it hard to meet new clients for bigger projects. Is there a typical way to find clients? I go to meetups around NYC, but that doesn't seem to lead to anything.

Any advice would help.

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Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? by Curll on Saturday February 09, 2013 @01:04AM (#5191878)

Shoot me a PM, I'd like to see your portfolio. I'm actually looking at mobile app shops right now.

It seems like every other nutter in NYC is looking for a tech co-founder; perhaps market yourself as a CTO-in-a-box?

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Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? by nicholjs on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:30AM (#5192757)

Hey Curll, send me an email and I'll pass you along our work. [email protected]

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Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? by timjahn on Saturday February 09, 2013 @09:53AM (#5192669)

We're always looking for quality mobile developers on matchist (http://matchist.com/talent). We'll do our best to find you quality work with quality clients.

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Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? by nicholjs on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:30AM (#5192759)

I signed up a few days ago. Waiting on a reply.

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Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? by orangethirty on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:43PM (#5190574)

You can advertise for free on codejobs. Check it out here:

http://orangethirty.github.com/codejobs

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Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? by applebug60 on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:25PM (#5190488)

Cold call. Advertise. Network. Linkedin. Golf clubs. Recommendations.

Just pound the pavement every single day. There's no easier way.

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Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? by nicholjs on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:30PM (#5190511)

Golf clubs... that's an interesting idea.

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