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Tell me what keeps going wrong

The order taken by phone, the spreadsheet nobody trusts, the site you cannot update. Describe it in your own words and you will get a straight answer about whether it is worth building, including when the answer is to buy a product instead.

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Contact Information

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Email

hello@risingdot.io

Or ahmad@risingdot.io, which is the same person either way.

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What you get back

A straight answer about whether this is worth building, even when the answer is that you should buy a product instead.

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Where

Pakistan. The work runs for businesses in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Spain.

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Hours

Pakistan Standard Time, UTC+5. Calls are booked around your timezone, not mine.

✨ Where and when

Nine hours ahead of most of my clients

Where this happens

Remote, and always has been. There is no office to visit and no local number in any of these places, so here is the thing that actually matters instead: when we can talk, and what it costs you in waiting.

My time now--:--Pakistan · UTC+5, no DST

North America

Chicago · Central
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Reachable8am to 12pm6pm to 10pm here

Your morning is my evening. A question asked at 8am is answered before your lunch, and the build moves overnight.

What building here involves

United Kingdom

London · GMT / BST
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Reachable9am to 5pm1pm to 10pm here

The whole London working day is reachable, which is not true of any American city. Four hours apart in summer, five in winter.

What building here involves

Australia

Sydney · AEST / AEDT
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Reachable2pm to 6pm8am to 1pm here

Your afternoon is my morning, so the handover runs the right way round: you end the day with questions, they are answered before you start the next.

What building here involves
  1. 01A reply, within one working dayFrom me, not an autoresponder. If the answer is that you should buy a product instead of building one, that is what you get told.
  2. 02A call in your working hoursThirty minutes, about how the work happens today rather than what you want built. Nothing is quoted before that conversation.
  3. 03Scope and price, in writingWhat is included, what is not, and the number. Nothing starts until you agree to it, and the number does not move unless the scope does.
✨ Tell us in four answers

Not a form.
Four questions

Answer what you can. The brief writes itself at the end.

Question 1 of 4

What should stop repeating?

✨ Or just message

Two lines
is enough

No form, no brief. Start the way you would with anyone else.

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Tell me what keeps going wrong

The order taken by phone, the spreadsheet nobody trusts, the site you cannot update. Describe it in your own words and you will get a straight answer about whether it is worth building.