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Your technical counterpart.
Some products are a project. Yours is a company. What it's missing is someone who holds the technical side of the business with you, for years, not weeks.
That's a different relationship. A contractor executes decisions. A counterpart argues with you before the decision gets made.
What this looks like
Ongoing engagement, typically a set number of days per month. Within that:
Architecture and decisions. Stack, data model, build versus buy, fix now versus later. Documented, so decisions outlive conversations.
Hands-on building. The features I specify, I build. Strategy and keyboard, same person.
Managing developers. Reviewing work, setting standards, running the technical side of hiring. Your team gets someone they can be honest with.
Business thinking. Pricing, retention, which feature actually moves revenue. This is the part most technical people skip, and it's why this site says "I build businesses, not just software."
Investor conversations. Technical diligence, architecture questions, the story behind the stack.
What I bring
Products of my own, shipped end to end: App Store, Google Play, paying users, the whole unglamorous middle. I know what breaks after launch because it broke on mine first. The expensive mistakes are already made, on my own money.
What makes it work
Real decision-making access, honest numbers, and room to disagree. The whole value of a counterpart is that he can tell you no.
FAQ
- What's the difference between this and hiring a freelancer?
- A freelancer takes your decisions and executes them. A counterpart is accountable for whether the decisions were right. Different work, different relationship, different price.
- Are you available full-time or exclusive?
- I run my own products alongside, and that's precisely what makes this valuable: you get someone who's currently shipping. I take a small number of partnerships at a time.
- Can this convert into a co-founder arrangement?
- It's happened. Equity follows from working together well, so the first conversation stays about the work.
- Can I start smaller?
- Yes. Most partnerships start as a blueprint or a single build. That's the sensible way to find out how we work together.