What are the must-haves for a development studio?

Question

Startups

Let me explain. What unobvious needs can a small studio (of course in Babruisk) of 5 people have - everyone is coding. In addition to documentation, four walls, telephone and hardware? It is very interesting to read about personal experience, and maybe a friend of a friend once started. Please share your opinion.

Answer 1

Once we started making websites with a friend, only I was a "programmer", and he collected orders. Some of the mistakes that allowed our joint venture to die (we existed for almost 2 years) are:
- an insufficiently experienced programmer (that's me), plus, if they took assistants, they were even more inexperienced than me.
- a clear development plan was not drawn up, the design of the project was not carried out, because of which, along the way, situations arose that could be solved at the design stage, but no, you had to spend time already during development. As a consequence of this - an unexpected increase in terms.
- there were no clear conditions for the customer, i.e. there was a standard contract, but, for example, the cost of edits was negotiated on the fly, some customers rolled their eyes and had to do it for free. As a result, the customer was a king and a god, and some of their payment debts have not been paid so far.
- the desire to save, no, I understand that you need to save, but not on what brings you income, that's why the designers were worthless, shitty assistants, etc. Because of this, the customer was not satisfied, and the project development time was greatly increased.
- orders in terms of complexity and requirements are incomparable with the cost, i.e. the partner took complex orders for ridiculous money, complaining that the city is small (300,000 inhabitants) and no one wants to pay, as a result, payments were delayed with the creation and modifications, the following orders were taken while the previous ones were unfinished and it turned out to be lumpy, which is nothing good promised.
- well, the result of all this was a huge amount of debt and bad reviews.
Well, these were the problems at the "Horns and Hooves" studio of two people, which I remembered))
* py.sy. I don't know why I wrote this, I just remembered something.

Answer 2

A normally configured server from which you show projects to clients (perhaps hosting someone for the first time, I do not advise you to contact the permanent hosting of other people's projects).
Separate server(s) for development.
Normal CI, git(lab), review and other processes.
Ticket holder.
A strict list of technologies that you use, so that each developer does not do it "his own way".
We need at least one developer who will not be full-time busy with projects, but will review other developers (well, in a critical situation, he can be thrown on the most profitable project).

Answer 3

Is everyone coding?
Who is in charge of sales? The salesperson is as important as the programmer.

Answer 4

I advise you to find a payment (at least an agent). Well, think about the salesperson.

Answer 5

www.specialist.ru/course/rukint
course on the topic, if interested