Not claiming to be an expert here, but from my experience GWT consulting is probably not viable. This would depend on if you have contacts/inroads into companies already using GWT. You'd probably just be better off going with plain Java consulting which is an enormous market, and it really comes down to the same thing: writing Java code.
Alternatively, you can develop some B2B systems in GWT, and then sell customized solutions of it to companies. Customizing a B2B GWT app would probably be the 1 week to 3 months timeframe. Support for businesses may be more difficult as a 1 man shop though, but it depends on the webapp. Definitely should be more fun and personally stimulating than trudging away on some companies monster GWT business app all your life though! Ryan On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:18:18 PM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi everyone. I've been working with GWT for several years (since 1.5) at > 2 different companies, building medium/large enterprise web applications. > I love working with GWT, but don't always love the "employee" lifestyle, > having to worry about conserving the tiny amount of PTO I get whenever I > want to take a day or two off, set working hours, pointless meetings, etc. > I also like the variety of switching projects every now and then. > Therefore, I'm toying with the idea of starting my own 1-man consulting > company, ideally working on projects lasting somewhere between 1 week and 3 > months. > > I know this is kind of off topic, but I figured this would be the perfect > community to ask. Has anyone else done something like this? Is there a > large enough market for shorter term GWT specialists, or are the types of > projects that use GWT generally more complex/longer term projects? If so, > any advice on how to go about finding jobs would be awesome. > > Thanks! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
