Ask HN: What do you do as IT consultants?

Posted by aswin8728 on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @05:35PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I noticed that a lot of people on HN have side-businesses that operate in the form of a consultancy. What do you do as a consultant? Is it always programming? or are there other niches you can carve out and create a business for?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do as IT consultants? by rbijou on Thursday April 10, 2014 @10:34AM (#7566409)

Security consulting. More specifically, I help companies adopt data-driven approaches to collection and analysis + help security companies with their threat intelligence products.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do as IT consultants? by neekb on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @05:51PM (#7562717)

If you get really good at a specific product, there is usually someone out there that needs some help. For example Checkpoint firewall, or another IT Security product...

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do as IT consultants? by chewxy on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:39PM (#7563524)

statistical consulting. Clients so far have ranged from finance startups to soft drinks companies. Programming is more of a means to an ends than anything.

Finding your niche is easy. Finding clients in your niche is like climbing Mt. Everest

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do as IT consultants? by justintocci on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:28PM (#7563487)

i'd like to talk about this with someone. Give me a call if you're interested.

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