Consultancies ​

Flexile is interesting system to manage invoices.

I am excited by Replit Bounties and what they can do for opening more tasks for payment.

Design ​

• Oak Studios
• Scruples Studio - Results-focused websites, built with scruples. (Website Reviews)
• 0+X Stockholm
• Wireframe Design Studio
• Raureif - Experts in typography and user interface design.
• Supercreative
• Filament Group - Design and front-end development studio.
• MOXY - Interdisciplinary studio, we specialise in designing and developing.
• wirefr.am - Tiny studio, focusing on beautifully crafted visual design.
• kadjax - Create Designs & Illustrations for digital products.
• Green Chameleon - Bristol based Design Agency.
• Tubik Studio - Digital agency creating mobile and web products.
• Red Collar digital agency
• Dialectic Design
• Unfold - Create delightful experiences for brands. (Dribble)
• Clay - UI/UX Design Agency, Web Design & Branding. (Dribble)
• makemepulse
• Milkinside
• Awkward - Digital product agency.
• Human Deluxe Design Studio
• This Too Shall Grow
• Wiredcraft - Creates & grows digital products for the world’s best brands.
• Z1 - Digital Product Studio.
• No Service 24/7 - Brand Agency.
• Unlikely Objects - Storytelling studio.
• FAVO Studio - Motion Design, Animation & Video.
• Websmyth - Custom Websites For Small Businesses.
• PHYGITALISM - Moscow based design studio.
• Sensa - Strategy + craft with companies that shape the world such as the BBC, Forbes, Facebook, and Condé Nast. (Twitter)
• BASIC - Digital Branding & Experience Design Agency.
• Rejiggle - Conversion-Focused Design.
• Hactar - Product and service design for social good.
• Heartbeat Agency - UI/UX for mobile and web apps in fintech.
• Simple Thread - Digital Product Agency.
• Charmer - Дизайн-студия.
• Utsubo - Technology-first creative studio. (Twitter)
• Friendly Studio - Design Studio for Startups.
• Rejiggle - Conversion-Focused Design Studio.
• 9elements - Digital product and design studio. (GitHub)
• cycraft
• Self Aware - Digital studio that crafts lively and inclusive experiences for the web.
• Wide Awake - Creative consultancy with a focus on brand identity, brand direction, digital design, and illustration.
• Old Friends - Low-Code Studio.
• Digital Workroom
• Econify (GitHub)
• Monopo London - Tokyo-born design-driven creative agency.
• Nimble - Mobile Application & Web Software Development Company.
• Figura - Scalable product design for fast growing tech startups.
• Logic + Rhythm - Design and technology studio. (Twitter)
• Elan Miller
• basement.studio - Digital studio making cool shit that performs. (GitHub) (Twitter)
• Bakken & Bæck (Twitter)
• Bureau Cool (Twitter)
• Studio Essence (Twitter)
• Belka
• Set Studio
• Pixelhop - Brighton Digital Studio.
• Magicspace
• Paper Tiger - Custom Web Design Agency.

React Native ​

• CallStack - React Native community-trusted, extremely skilled Javascript developers.
• Galois - Develops technology to guarantee the trustworthiness of systems where failure is unacceptable. (GitHub)
• Akveo - Delivering Web & Mobile Solutions.
• Spaceship Studio - Web & mobile development, strategy, and training.
• Margelo - Elite App Development and Contracting Agency - aka the "React Native Avengers". (Twitter) (GitHub)

React ​

• Formidable - JavaScript consultancy built for the modern web.
• Component Driven

Rust ​

• Asquera - Specialise on the things below the covers: databases, queues, caches, APIs and the tiny details that make them all work together.
• Lyken Software Solutions (GitHub)

Data Science ​

• Quansight
• QuantumBlack - Use data, analytics and design to help our clients be the best they can be.
• Data Revenue - Custom machine learning solutions for real-life problems.

iOS ​

• Oak Snow Consulting - Based in Vermont, builds iOS and Web apps for early stage startups and small businesses.
• Exyte - Mobile, Blockchain, AR/VR development services.
• M Cubed Software
• Breakpoint Studio - Mobile Strategy, Design, Development.
• Elegant Chaos - Mac and iOS software development, consultancy, debugging, and contracting.
• Nice Photon - Make iOS apps. (GitHub)
• Xmartlabs (GitHub)
• Windmill
• 3 Sided Cube (GitHub)

Node ​

• Custom Node.js Module Development

DB ​

• OnGres - Expert postgres help for startups and enterprise.

Scala ​

• Underscore - Scala software development, consultancy, and training.
• Propensive - European technology company, specializing in supporting the Scala programming community.
• Inner Product

Clojure ​

• JUXT (GitHub)
• Troy-West - Distributed Systems / Clojure Consultancy. (GitHub)

Elixir ​

• Dasshbit - Help startups and enterprises adopt and run Elixir in production.
• Moose Code - Elixir Consulting.

Haskell ​

• Kowainik

Kotlin ​

• Touchlab

NixOS ​

• NumTide - Bringing the power of Nix to companies since 2016. (GitHub)
• TVL (The Virus Lounge) - Software consulting.
• Nix.How - Nix software consultancy for you.

Elm ​

• Incremental Elm Consulting

ML ​

• Principia Labs (GitHub)
• Merantix Momentum (GitHub)

Embedded ​

• Vertigo Designs

Other ​

• Monadfix - Work with Haskell, PureScript, and Agda.
• feenk - Reshape the Development eXperience to make your systems explainable.
• Keming Labs - Build data-driven interfaces.
• Obsidian Systems - Software consultancy specializing in haskell, nix, curiosity, and innovation.
• Oxidizing Systems - Provide consulting services based on our experience in functional programming and safe systems.
• Reify Works - Help companies market and sell more software.
• YLD
• PerfPerfPerf - Web performance consultancy. (Code)
• RedMadRobot - Full cycle product development. (GitHub)
• Parallax - Digital agency.
• Exyte - Mobile, Blockchain, and AR/VR Development Agency.
• The Yak Collective - Network of over 300 independent consultants, coaches, and freelancers with varied technical and creative skills.
• Cunningham & Cunningham - Small consultancy that has specialized in object-oriented programming.
• Codista - Professional Web Development in Vienna.
• Postlight - Digital Product Studio.
• Mirumee - High performance Python, React & React Native applications.
• Clearleft - Strategic Design & Innovation Consultancy.
• Software Mansion
• Narative - Helps you brand, build and grow.
• black.af - Software consulting agency aiming to provide you with industry experience, forward thinking solutions and self-driven tools.
• Futurice - Digital Engineering and Innovation.
• Little Miss Robot - Digital Product Design Agency.
• Itty Bitty Apps - Dedicated to native mobile apps.
• Troodon Software
• Lickability - Software studio in NYC that builds apps.
• Skcript
• Autogram - Content management and design systems experts.
• Echobind
• This Dot Labs
• Uberdosis - Digital product agency, building own products & working for clients.
• Littlelines - Ruby on Rails Development Company.
• Atomic Object
• Bitfield Consulting - Cloud native & Go consultancy.
• Apptension
• Abstract Machines - Short contracts, code reviews, and coaching in the fields of web, data, and knowledge engineering.
• Futured - Mobile business builders.
• Metosin (GitHub)
• Elements - Specialist for Digital Design & Development.
• HYPE4 - Web and mobile / design and development.
• FP Complete - Specialize in building Reliable, Repeatable, Scalable and Highly Secure Software. (GitHub)
• gskinner (GitHub)
• 47 Degrees - Engineering the Future of Enterprise. (GitHub)
• Moritz Systems - Code Security, Embedded Solutions, IOT and Edge Computing.
• LateCheckout - Communities design firm.
• Underjord - Artisanal software development, quality productions and some teaching.
• Strumenta
• RokkinCat
• The Agile Monkeys - Team of full-stack senior software engineers.
• QuarkWorks
• Jayway
• Bad Idea Factory
• Shakacode - Ruby on Rails, React, Gatsby and Reason development.
• Nodes Agency - Digital product development agency.
• Technokrat
• Dwarves Foundation (GitHub)
• Beautiful Interactions - Tailored digital solutions, made beautifully.
• Jantcu - Web design & tech consulting. (GitHub)
• Mwie Ltd
• STRV - Software Design & Engineering.
• Typeable - Haskell, FP, software development and consulting. (GitHub)
• wearereasonablepeople (GitHub)
• Lucina & Associates - Small consulting group specializing in bespoke software development and system integration.
• EGO Creative Innovations - Develop Mobile Apps for Businesses.
• Scott Logic
• wemake.services (GitHub)
• Foxhound Systems
• Jam3 Developers (GitHub)
• TechAscent (GitHub)
• Together - Multidisciplinary creative & technology agency, spanning brand, communication, development and strategy.
• SecretKeys - Privacy Tech & Consulting. (GitHub)
• ustwo - Digital product studio.
• Provectus - AI-First Consultancy and Solutions Provider.
• 8th Light
• Trail of Bits (GitHub)
• Test Double - Agency Improving the World's Software.
• Bocoup - Web platform consulting services.
• OddBird - Experts in digital product creation. (GitHub)
• NearForm - Enterprise Software Development & Capability Building.
• Public Digital
• Fueled - Mobile App Development & Digital Transformation Company.
• Imaginary Cloud - Software Development & UI/UX Design.
• TypeFox
• Good Work
• SoftwareMill - Scala, Java, Blockchain, Big Data, Machine Learning.
• ColorElephant
• Morflax - Easiest online 3D design platform.
• Surf - Разработка мобильных приложений для Android и iOS.sm (GitHub)
• True web artisans
• Trilon
• QuickBird Studios - Mobile App Solutions. (GitHub)
• NuxtLabs (Twitter) (GitHub)
• Evil Martians - Extraterrestrial product development consultancy. (GitHub)
• Steamclock - iOS and Android app development and consulting in Vancouver. (GitHub)
• The Foundries - Offer consultancy and technical analysis across multiple domains in the software industry.
• Product Brew - Small team of developers and thinkers that thrive on connection and the creation of your product. (GitHub)
• magicstack - Experts in modern reactive web. (GitHub)
• Black Square Media (GitHub)
• Uptech Studio - Product, Design, and Development. (GitHub)
• Element 84 (GitHub)
• fourTheorem
• Ubik
• Charlie Tango (GitHub)
• Collabora - Open Source Software Consulting.
• Spaceteams (GitHub)
• 0No Co
• Red Badger (GitHub)

Notes ​

• The "expert path" is valid. Become an expert in something and learn to sell that expertise. The reward? No upper limit on your rates.
• Set expectations (in the contracts) with clients about response time on emails and scheduling calls for non-emergencies.
• 5 Steps to break into high $ consulting as a developer: 1. Specialize in something. 2. Document everything as you learn - videos, blogs, OSS on Git. 3. Update social presence reflecting specialty. 4. Create website with good SEO as lead funnel. 5. Link everything you do to the site
• Building a team with part-time contractors can be hard.

Links ​

• How to Find Consulting Clients (2019) (HN)
• SaaS & Subscription Experts - Best consultants, agencies, and specialized services to help you grow.
• Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer? (2019)
• Hourly Billing Is OK (2018)
• Lessons from Six Years as a Solo Consultant (2019) (HN)
• Client - Simplified requirement collection for freelancers and agencies. Say goodbye to boring contact forms, emails and unproductive first calls.
• Clutch - B2B Ratings & Reviews.
• Software Consulting Legal Documents (Code)
• Software Consulting: What This Really Means and How to Start (2020)
• Becoming A Consultant In 2020: A How-To Guide (2020)
• Ask HN: How do custom software dev firms make money? (2020)
• The Consultant Out of Time (2021)
• Ask HN: Charge per hour or per project? (2021)
• Ask HN: How did you transition from FTE to self-employed/sole proprietor? (2021)
• Consulting 101 Advice (2021)
• How to Get Clients to Pay Their Invoices
• The Prosperous Software Consultant (2018) (HN)
• wellpaid.io - Recruiter-free contractor marketplace.
• On Deck Freelancers
• Ask HN: What is the highest consulting rate that you have come across, in tech? (2021)
• Every engineer should do a stint in consulting (2021) (HN)
• Workshops as Portals (2019) (Tweet)
• It’s great to be a consultant (2022) (HN)
• Ask HN: What do you do and what's your consulting rate? (2022)
• A career ending mistake (2022) (HN)
• Ask HN: How to get clients for a new, small software agency? (2022)
• Ask HN: Why aren't more software engineers contractors? tax savings? (2022)
• Ask HN: Examples of high-value specialized consulting? (2022)
• Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants? (2022)
• Flexile - Operating system for flexible business.
• Ask HN: Is there a site for quality short-term contract programming work? (2022)
• Ask HN: What is your experience in tech consulting? (2023)
• Stellar - Hire Top Creative Freelancers.
• Ask HN: High end” consultants, what does your day to day work look like? (2023)