Epicmax launched its first open-source project, Vuestic Admin 7 years ago, and it quickly became the 4th most popular on GitHub in just 23 hours. This success was a key moment for the company.
You all know that finding new customers is hard for small outsourcing businesses, especially when you need to find your FIRST client. At this hard moment, some companies start with sending numerous proposals on Upwork or LinkedIn, hoping to find good clients.
Others simply get any job they can, trying to secure any contract at all, and then quickly burnout and lose their positioning. Some even hire a sales team to make many cold calls and send emails every day, but turning these efforts into real customers is challenging when you don't have cases and reputation. Nobody wants to be the first and invest own time and money to provide you with a case and experience.
In 2017, Epicmax team decided to try a different way.
It was risky and challenging, but also exciting - they started by building a non-commercial Admin template and putting it on GitHub.
It’s been over 7 years now. Vuestic Admin has received more than 10 000 stars on GitHub ⭐⭐⭐
It led to more successful open-source products and significant growth for the company. After realizing that they could leverage own previous experience to create something cool, they developed Vuestic UI - an open-source Vue.js UI Framework. It currently has only 3 300 stars on GitHub, but let's see what happens next.
We have great and beautiful competitors in the world of Vue.js Frameworks, but we still have something special under the hood that I am sure you will absolutely love!
Having several open-source products now helps us to connect and collaborate with interesting projects, and to join the best conferences in the field (they're happy when our CTO gives a talk or when we come just for fun and discussions).
So, what about our sales process now?
We still have to look for new clients and try new ways to reach people who need our services, but some of them come to us with exciting offers after discovering our open-source work.
And for me, as a part of Epicmax, it's a great honor to know that we're not all about money.
We have something more, and I am thankful that I've met a lot of amazing people working at Epicmax. And one more benefit for me - I always have a place where I can put my ideas. If I were to start a new business now, I would definitely begin with an open-source project, but for 2024 it must not be called Vuestic UI, but Vuestic AI. 🤣
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