Bedroom developers preparing to work on a new website

The Pitfalls of Supporting your Business with Bedroom Developers

What is the appeal of bedroom developers?

Your website is your shop window to the world – it should look great, run smoothly, and consistently provide functionality to your customers.

It is incredibly tempting for small businesses to minimise start-up costs by opting for a lone bedroom developer, who can offer a cheap solution to building a website… but this will often prove more expensive in the long run.

With more and more people developing the skills to build basic websites from available templates, there seems to be an abundance of developers able to take your business online. A website is now a fundamental part of any business and the expectation from customers is that any worthy business will have one.

When things go wrong

At CloudConstruct, we often have business owners approach us, who have opted for the cheap option, only for their website to have gone horribly wrong.

A recent example is an SME that sells a niche product online. They enlisted a neighbour’s son to build the website. The website build and launch seemed to go smoothly but when the son went to university he wasn’t interested in continuing to support it.

Unfortunately, the site crashed and it went offline for weeks, which led to customers enquiring to see if they had gone out of business. Small bugs existed within the site, and necessary tweaks were never carried out. The business lost revenue and their reputation was damaged.

Choosing a cheap option had a catastrophic impact on the business, and cost them dearly.

The CloudConstruct team at their Shropshire office

Weigh up what to do

Taking a business online should be dealt with seriously, with proper investment that builds a stable platform that will be looked after by professionals. If your new online business idea is as great as you think it is, then you have to give it the best chance of success, rather than gambling its fruition with poor implementation.

If you find a great, affordable freelancer that works from home, promising to kick-start the project, how can you be sure that they are able to produce brilliant work, and that you can rely on their support for years to come?

If the developer is a friend or relative, you might find it even more troublesome to rely on them without the security of a professional business relationship in place. It could also be unfair to burden them with the responsibility of ensuring your business’s success.

The main pitfalls of (some) bedroom developers are:

Experience and abilities may be limited
They may only be available outside of business hours if they are juggling a full time job with freelance website building
There are no guarantees you can depend on their continued support for a given length of time
You may be left locked out of your investment if they haven’t given you all of the access codes and security details

Time to invest in success

Any successful website needs these core attributes:

Code quality, security and ease of maintenance
Hosting optimisation to ensure high speeds around the world
Search engine optimisation
Back-up systems in place for disaster planning
Monitoring, alerts and performance reporting
Support options in place which are appropriate to the service
An expert to talk to when you need them the most

The team at CloudConstruct are armed with a wide range of skills to make this possible. The role of a web developer is now very broad, and one person cannot be proficient at all of the elements required.

Our unrivalled range of experience, expertise and skills are scarcely all found in other developer agencies. The fact we have them all gives you even greater value for money.

The Pitfalls of Supporting your Business with Bedroom Developers

What is the appeal of bedroom developers?

When things go wrong

Weigh up what to do

The main pitfalls of (some) bedroom developers are:

Time to invest in success

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