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Alex Balabanov

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Well, you're right, though I've seen data in there for domains with about 10k emails per month.

Still, that's probably way over the home email setup threshold.

Dang, I should go try and reapply, also e-resident, also got rejected pretty quickly. Good to know the guys are open to re-evaluation.

Finding customers is always a tough task. We started from μ-ISVs with simple Windows applications to probe the market and see whether people are ready to buy tests and QA as a service and then slowly expanded the offered services list.

We have great customer retention (excluding some specific one-time projects, like a penetration test), I hope due to our dedication :)

I would say manual tests are most popular, and then load tests, then automation. Often customers start from a tiny manual test and then use our services more and more, in other QA areas, being happy to receive all of those from one window in a unified manner.

I actually run a small QA-as-a-service company (for 3+ years) and I should say that we strive to distance ourselves from "freelance" word as much as possible.

As most other cheap labors in a remote freelance mode — it is discredited. I think it would be just hard to build a personal brand strong enough to compete with tons of people, who can look like a diamond on a pre-sale phase and then just disappear.

Startup idea list 14 years ago

Something similar was offered by connex.io but unfortunately they've closed recently.