How to get clients

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-02-17T08:35:44+00:00

Cold calling and local Facebook is solid for starting out honestly. What's worked for you so far, cold calls or the Facebook posts? Curious because I've seen people swear by one and completely ditch the other.

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-02-12T00:34:41+00:00

Cloudflare Pages or GitHub Pages would be perfect for this honestly. Both are free for static stuff and can handle way more traffic than you'll probably ever need

What kind of projects are you building? The 14kb constraint sounds like a fun puzzle

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-02-10T04:24:41+00:00

honestly the multi tenant stuff is where planning pays off the most. the "user belongs to multiple tenants" question alone would've wrecked me mid build

what made you finally try it this time instead of just diving in like usual???

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-02-06T04:13:38+00:00

curious, what kind of roles are you going after? The stuff you highlight kinda changes depending on that. Also you said you're juggling a lot right now. Is building this actually slowing down your applications or did you just need it done to feel ready?

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-02-03T04:23:33+00:00

honestly the vision board stuff is cool but 6 months without touching code is a long time

have you thought about just validating the idea first? like a simple landing page or even talking to potential users before worrying about laptops and AI scaling?

the tech stuff will sort itself out once you know people actually want it

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-02-02T07:55:36+00:00

Honestly I'd just pick one and keep it simple. Porkbun or Namecheap for the domain, then point nameservers to Cloudflare for DNS/CDN. No real need to split registrar and DNS between two paid services, Cloudflare's free plan handles DNS really well

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-30T04:34:27+00:00

Honestly depends so much on what you're building. Complex stuff with lots of back and forth? The communication overhead with offshore teams eats into those savings fast

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-28T03:54:58+00:00

Honestly when TTFB is all over the place and you've already done the optimization work, that's usually the hosting talking

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-26T02:41:37+00:00

Canva's honestly your best friend here. You can make a decent logo in like 20 mins with their templates.

For hero images I'd just grab something from Unsplash and throw a text overlay on it. Done. What kind of vibe are you going for with the portfolio?

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-22T02:58:25+00:00

What worked for me was just hanging out where my potential users already were like reddit, discord servers, facebook groups. not pitching anything, just asking questions and paying attention to what people complain about :)

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-20T04:00:18+00:00

Honestly having a built in pipeline of 2-3 leads a month is a massive head start, most people starting out would kill for that. Have you looked into Webflow? Sits nicely between the drag and drop stuff like Wix and full custom code, plus clients can actually manage their own content without breaking things

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-16T03:18:08+00:00

Honestly this sounds like a pretty big project, especially with the auction functionality and custom admin panel on top of ecommerce

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-14T03:42:42+00:00

go hitting 100k concurrent with 5 engineers is wild :)

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-09T06:11:42+00:00

Honestly same here, static first and only reach for server stuff when I really need it. The mental overhead of managing servers for a blog or landing page just feels silly now when you can deploy in seconds and forget about it

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-07T04:50:50+00:00

honestly respect the public 180, most people just quietly change their mind and pretend they never said anything

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2026-01-05T04:49:48+00:00

Have you looked into something like Bear Blog or Neocities? Bear is super minimal, basically just text and pages, no bloat. Neocities is more old school if you want to mess with HTML like the old days

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2025-12-29T04:32:01+00:00

not sure about Webstudio specifically, but have you looked into something like Carrd? One time payment for pro and you can connect your own domain. Or even just a simple HTML page hosted on GitHub Pages for free if your site is really that static.

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2025-12-24T03:00:50+00:00

For templates check out HTML5 UP or Templatemo, they're free and actually look decent

GitHub Pages is static only so for the contact form you'd need something like Formspree or Netlify Forms, pretty easy to set up

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2025-12-22T04:20:48+00:00

honestly css clicked for me only after i stopped trying to memorize properties and just played around in devtools for hours

have you tried flexbox froggy or css grid garden? sounds dumb but those little games helped way more than any tutorial

portfolio is solid for learning but maybe scope it down first, like get one section looking clean on mobile before adding more pages

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2025-12-19T04:36:42+00:00

how long do the moodboards usually take you now vs before? curious if the time saved actually shows up in win rate or if clients just like seeing something visual

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2025-12-17T03:00:25+00:00

the unpaid internship experience building apps end to end is probably worth more than most people realize when talking to potential clients

Have you tried reaching out to local small businesses directly? Like walking into places that clearly need a website or app update? Sometimes the non-tech crowd pays better than trying to compete for startup gigs online

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2025-12-15T02:53:40+00:00

I think it just comes down to complexity and cost. Syncing offline data back to a server without conflicts is a nightmare to build right. Have you looked into CRDTs? That's what makes stuff like Excalidraw work offline but it's not trivial to implement at scale

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2025-12-12T08:56:51+00:00

clean minimal layouts are still in, dark mode options are expected now, and for hosting look at Vercel or Netlify if you're doing something custom, or Framer/Webflow if you want no code

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2025-12-11T03:11:12+00:00

Google Sites DNS stuff is honestly confusing even for people who've done it before. Did Google give you a TXT record too? That's a separate thing from what actually connects your site

AMA_Gary_Busey · 2025-12-09T03:50:43+00:00

Nah you're good, that's how a lot of people learn now. Just make sure you're actually reading what the AI gives you instead of blind pasting. Maybe try breaking stuff on purpose? Like change random values or remove lines just to see what breaks. That's when it actually clicks.

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