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29th October, 2009
Thursday

The web development scene of Hong Kong

Having been here for a year, I can summarise the web development scene of Hong Kong as: fragmented and struggling to survive.

There are a huge amount of 'developers' and 'designers' who've set up their own company in Hong Kong.

This to me is really curious because most of those who have done that do not have the quality, money, education/knowledge to ever expand.

When I first arrived, one of my priorities was to try and find partners to start my company, and believe me I've asked a few, and none of those who've setup shop already like the idea of working with others. I guess that's a reason why they run their own shop.

Maybe it's just a difference in personality.

But you'd think the fact that Hong Kong is only a 'city' is enough reason to band together to make something big rather than fragment yourself and limit yourself forever to local unrewarding work.

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[ 23:48 ] 29th October, 2009
julz
hi , I'm a web designer in HK too. Yep, I agree it's a peculiar business environment here. These low-end design firms must be feeling the pinch re: off-shoring. So there's bound to be some shake up. More and more firms are just managers of teams of outsourced talent. feel free to drop me a line to discuss this further
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