u/Early-Stop6288

Is anyone in the UK with a property background open to starting a software company that helps landlords manage their properties, especially smaller landlords who'll need to navigate all the changes coming with the Renters' Rights Act?

For context, I'm an experienced software engineer based in London with 8+ years of experience, mostly at Series A startups, and I'd love to partner up with someone who has connections and a deep understanding of the UK property space — assuming there's even a market for this. I have a rough prototype/idea of what it could look like, but from my experience an idea without a market is just an idea.

I'd prefer someone also based in London but anywhere in the UK is fine.

So my questions are twofold: is there a market, and if yes, is there someone with a good network and ideally some distribution/sales channels who'd be up for partnering?

Is anyone open to starting a software company that helps landlords manage their properties, especially smaller landlords who'll need to navigate all the changes coming with the Renters' Rights Act?

For context, I'm an experienced software engineer based in London and I'd love to partner up with someone who has connections and a deep understanding of the property space, assuming there's even a market for this. I have a rough prototype/idea of what it could look like, but from my experience an idea without a market is just an idea.

I'd prefer someone also based in London but anywhere in the UK is fine. So my questions are twofold: is there a market, and if yes, is there someone with a good network and ideally some distribution/sales channels who'd be up for partnering?

Any advice on moving from being a perm to being a contractor?

Some background: I'm a London based software engineer with more than 8 years primarily working as a backend-focused full stack dev (mostly Django/Python backends but more recently TypeScript/Bun at my current job). Most of my experience has been working in startups and scale-ups. Mainly looking at contracting for the day rates tbh.

I've been thinking of finding a niche to focus on so I can build a network for myself in that niche but it's a bit hard to find online. Niches that I've worked in have been credit scoring and logistics but they don't seem to have a lot of demand. AI related work seems to be booming and I've worked a lot with especially recently but it feels a bit like a wave that everyone's trying to ride which will lead to more competition.

Also still need to get my head around IR35 and whether to go Ltd or umbrella, but I've found other posts that deal with that so I'll probably just ask follow up questions there.

My questions are

• How do you find contract work/market yourself?
• Is it advisable to take on more than one contract? (I've seen a few post in this sub about that)
• Which niches pay well?