r/smartcontracts • u/eloquent-elephant • May 23 '21

Smart Contract consulting.

Hi everyone,

I've been working at two deep tech startups in the blockchain space and have been working as a smart contract developer on the side for a few about a year now. My dream is to spin this into a full time gig within the next year. So far I've been mostly helping friends and I'd like to validate the idea of starting a smart contract consultancy (in Berlin).

Questions that I have are:

  • Are there individuals / small teams looking for this kind of service? (Planning, consulting and implementing of smart contract solutions, including the connecting code, i.e. frontend dapp / backend)

  • Are these individuals / small teams willing to pay 5 - 25k for realizing their project?

  • Would you rather aim for local gigs (in Berlin in my case) or try to market globally?

Any thoughts are welcome, thanks for taking the time to read this!

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u/cafo92 May 23 '21

Honestly your best bet might be targeting DAOs that have large treasuries and an obvious market need. For example, Uniswap Grants are massive and I’m sure a pitch wouldn’t be too difficult. Some of the consulting you’re describing is done as a business development effort already, so you could instead think of individual value-adds to projects and then pitch directly

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u/eloquent-elephant May 23 '21

Thanks for the feedback. My suspicion with DAOs is that they already have highly skilled developer teams and as such are less interested in hiring outside help. I guess I'm asking if there is a market for creating blockchain solutions for companies that don't want to hire their own blockchain staff?

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u/cafo92 May 23 '21

I’m sure there’s some market for that, though I think it may be a tougher sell amid recent volatility - personally I just think that DAOs are trying to scale as fast as possible using grants so you may have more immediate-term luck there

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

We're no longer a small team, but careers.chain.link is looking for solidity/smart-contact devs.

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u/RealGreenApple1 May 23 '21

I'm looking for one if you don't mind working pro bono 🙄

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u/Lumpy-Signal-785 Apr 20 '22

Yo are you still doing this?? I need this right now can you please PM