BBQ Website For Food

Andrew tells the story of how he got his first web design client after being inspired by two web designers who frequented his coffee shop.

"I was working making coffees every day, and there were these two guys that would come in every single day. They'd roll in looking like they just got out of bed at 10 in the morning. They were probably like 24-25, and they would sit on their laptops all day drinking espresso after espresso.

One day I asked them, 'What do you guys do? Don't you have jobs?' They said, 'Oh, we're web designers. We just walk into random businesses, ask them if they have a website, and then say we'll make one for $500.'

That day I was like, forget this - I don't want to make the espresso, I want to be drinking the espresso. I want to be these guys. So I went and bought a book on web design, and a couple days later I walked into a place and sold the guy a website. It was a pulled pork barbecue joint called Pig. I think I got like $500 and some free pulled pork sandwiches. I basically got unlimited sandwiches for a while. Within a couple weeks, I'd quit my job."