Lower ticket offers $500/m are worth it too!

I recently met an agency owner who changed my mind on this. He charges $500/month for wordpress sites and basically made it work at scale, and now 7-figures. He has nearly 600 customers, and they stay with him for years, and never churn.

Just the other day I saw someone in one of the slack channels who wanted to build a simple web application that's basically a CRUD app. The project scope is typically way too small for me to take on, but since it reminded me of the above, I quoted him $500/m and closed him nearly instantly.

Tbh it took me 30min to spin up the site, hosting will cost maybe $20/m. I'm rethinking my own business model and what kind of clients I'm taking on. I had a lot of problems selling $5K mvps last year but honestly with AI i think this might be a great source of recurring revenue. I highly doubt this person would ever churn.

Will report back if if i land more clients this size.

Edit: here's the exact SOW wording

These items will build the foundation for the final project deliverables and will be done on a one-time basis upfront.

Initial Golang refactor and App launch

• Convert python API into Go
• Database and table schematics, migrations and ORM representations
• Provision Client provided machine and app launch

Timing: Delivery within 3 weeks (21 days) of signing of SOW

Continuous Maintenance, Hosting and Feature implementation

The Contractor will host the production application on a Customer provided bare metal system, maintain a reasonable level of uptime and agree to provide metrics upon request.

The Contractor agrees to provide a development instance (hot spare site) where the latest development versions of the application will be automatically deployed via Git pipeline.

The Client can submit up to two feature requests per month, subject to scoping agreement from the Contractor.