WordPress Do you create your own sites or just buy them

[Octavia]

After a year maybe even longer I have finally started a brand new site for a SAAS but truth to be told, I have spent so much time setting it up that I am currently somewhat burned out looking at it

2 months of continuous work on making it responsive on both mobile and desktop. Eventually I couldn't figure out how to get the woocommerce check out to work using the theme, so had to install another plugin thet would allow me to use a secondary theme for specific URLs.


In hindsight I do think it would've been much better for me to hire someone to do it for me, would've costed less time, and would probably already have a few clients to offset the cost.


So what are your experiences ?
Do you still DIY or outsource?

 

[Dopious]

Depends on project, but mostly build them myself.

 

[Rem]

if i have to build, both
but mostly myself

 

[SilverClouds]

I know what you're saying... I do them myself but it's such a pain in the ass that I actually looked at developers lol. But maybe also Wordpress is the problem. Wondered about stopping using that but no idea how to go about it.

 

[roydan]

I let someone else build them for me. Both mine and clients'.
I work with the devs on features I need and determines what goes where but I don't think I can do a WP as good as someone who does that as their main thing.

 

[MisterF]

I usually hire someone trustworthy to build a site for me, I don't have the patience, the knowledge or inclination to do these myself.

 

[We Bring Rank]

Of course, developing this requires a lot of effort and time, but the final result will give more satisfaction and the feeling of achieving something new.

 

[Festinger Vault]

I used to DIY everything too, until I realized clients don’t care how it’s built, just how fast it works and converts.
Now I offload the grind to my dev and focus on the parts that actually bring in the money.

 

[t2van]

I think the last quote I had to redo our site with an external company was £65,000 - 75,000 I know web dev costs a lot but I think most of the time prices goes on company turn over or size. I'm also tight as fuck.

So less than half that I set up an in house team it's a bit quicker to do things when problem happen but I would say time is the offset factor. There's lots of talk to try and future proof things than actually just doing and there is always other things that get in the way.

X breaks so time gets taken away new projects and so on. Where as if it was just external all they are doing is working on that and current problems they don't tend to deal with.

At the moment there is talks of upgrading our site but no one is sure what to do as we are going down such a content heavy route and our chosen platform isn't exactly set up for that, so it's tough and I got no interest in going down the shopify route either.

 

[MisterF]

I think the last quote I had to redo our site with an external company was £65,000 - 75,000 I know web dev costs a lot but I think most of the time prices goes on company turn over or size. I'm also tight as fuck.

So less than half that I set up an in house team it's a bit quicker to do things when problem happen but I would say time is the offset factor. There's lots of talk to try and future proof things than actually just doing and there is always other things that get in the way.

X breaks so time gets taken away new projects and so on. Where as if it was just external all they are doing is working on that and current problems they don't tend to deal with.

At the moment there is talks of upgrading our site but no one is sure what to do as we are going down such a content heavy route and our chosen platform isn't exactly set up for that, so it's tough and I got no interest in going down the shopify route either.

Then you discover they are outsourcing it all through Upwork or similar.

 

[V]

I used to DIY everything too, until I realized clients don’t care how it’s built, just how fast it works and converts.
Now I offload the grind to my dev and focus on the parts that actually bring in the money.

That's a nice take on this. I also do it myself, but I think it's time to outsource it as it takes a lot of time.

 

[MisterF]

That's a nice take on this. I also do it myself, but I think it's time to outsource it as it takes a lot of time.

Finding the right person to outsource to can also take a hell of a lot of time and effort too.

 

[V]

Finding the right person to outsource to can also take a hell of a lot of time and effort too.

It will take some time to find a good VA, but once you do, it will save numerous hours. I found one such VA, and he's awesome with this type of work. Setting up sites and writing content.

 

[MisterF]

It will take some time to find a good VA, but once you do, it will save numerous hours. I found one such VA, and he's awesome with this type of work. Setting up sites and writing content.

Yeah totally. I had a guy who used to do content for us a few years back, he was a university graduate in journalism and was looking for part time work.

I made the mistake of giving his details to 3 guys I knew who were looking for small pieces of content doing. I think one of these guys gave his details to someone else as out of the blue he got swamped with work and they were pushing the rate up they were offering. next thing I knew he'd been offered a full time position on salary.

If we had enough work for him, I'd have done that myself, but hey ho.

 

[V]

Never reveal your hand - unless it's to wave goodbye to the competition. You did the opposite.
I will definitely learn from this lesson.

 

[SEO FOX]

I create and manage my own websites and from what I’ve seen so far, I’m happy with the results.

 

[SirTop]

I usually start it myself and get it up and running with everything like contact page, payment gateway and all that.

After some time, once it’s already making sales, I use part of the money to hire someone to redesign it and give it a more premium look.

 

[p3n7357]

i build websites for others as a dev, but got mine designed by someone else.
Nah just kidding i build myself all my websites as part of my job