Today we’d like to introduce you to David Mudry.
Hi David, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I earned my Bachelor of Science in Marketing, graduated, and quickly realized I didn’t have a clear direction. I struggled to find a job that felt relevant to my degree, so I took a manufacturing job through a friend at my church and worked there for about a year.
During that time, I started building a simple mobile video game just for fun. I’d wake up at 4 a.m. every morning to work on it for three or four hours before heading to work. Eventually, the game reached a point where it needed a website, so I built one using Webflow. That’s when I realized I actually enjoyed making the website more than making the game.
From there, I shifted my focus to web design. I built a site for my friend’s band, one for my dad’s business, and my own portfolio site as my first projects. I didn’t know best practices yet and was mostly learning by doing, breaking things, fixing them, and figuring out what was actually happening along the way.
At some point, I got really excited about freelancing. The smart move would have been to keep it part-time while holding onto my full-time job. However, I never let common sense slow me down. Instead I decided to throw caution to the wind and abandon any semblance of sanity and quit my job to focus on freelancing full time.
It wasn’t smooth at first. I tried just about every outreach strategy I could think of including cold emails, cold calls, and even walking into businesses in person with very little success. Eventually, I landed my first non–family/friend client through Upwork, building a website from scratch for an insurance agency.
Since then, I’ve built or updated websites across a range of industries including real estate, financial planning, childcare, manufacturing, and SaaS.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Outreach has been the main struggle as I mentioned in the previous question. Another struggle is the feast-or-famine cycle. I’m either incredibly busy or incredibly not. During times of being busy, I love it, the day flies by and I’ll skip lunch without even noticing. But when things are dead, they are very dead and I become much less productive when doing nothing but outreach.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I design and build custom websites in Webflow, with a focus on clarity, usability, and long-term maintainability. I work solo, handling everything from design in Figma to development in Webflow, which allows clients to have one point of contact from idea to launch.
I specialize in building clean, scalable sites that clients can actually manage themselves, especially CMS-driven websites where content updates don’t require redesigning the entire site. A lot of my work involves structuring things in a way that looks polished on the surface and is flexible and easy to maintain behind the scenes.
Clients usually describe me as easy to work with, responsive, and detail-oriented. Many come to me feeling stuck or unsure, and appreciate that I take the time to understand their goals, communicate clearly, and move quickly, especially when timelines are tight. I’m often told that I make the process feel collaborative and low-stress, particularly for non-technical clients, and that the end result is a website they feel genuinely confident sharing.
What sets me apart is how I approach the process. I try to make projects as low-stress as possible and give clients exactly the level of involvement they want. Some people like to be very hands-on, while others are busy and want things handled for them, and I’m comfortable working either way. If a client has a clear vision, I focus on matching it as closely as possible, even when it’s different from what I would personally choose, because the more ownership they have in the process, the happier they are with the final result.
What I’m most proud of professionally is helping small businesses end up with a website they feel confident sharing. My background in marketing shapes how I approach every project, I’m not just thinking about how a site looks, but how people move through it, what questions they’re asking, and what will actually prompt them to take action.
Although not related to my professional career, I’d be remiss not to mention the greatest personal achievement of my entire life: becoming the 2023 Season 83 PewDiePie Tuber Simulator World Champion. Yes, WORLD CHAMPION. I mention this mostly as proof that I take competition very seriously, even when it absolutely does not matter and benefits no one.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
I enjoy taking risks when they’re intentional. Before making a big decision, I try to clearly picture the worst-case scenario, count the cost, and ask myself if I’d actually be okay paying that price if things went south. Quitting my job to freelance full time was a good example of that. I knew it might not work, but I also knew what failure would realistically look like and that I could live with it. If I understand the downside and still really want to do something, I’m willing to move forward knowing the worst case can happen, and being okay with it if it does.
Pricing:
- Fully custom, 1-page website = around $1,500 depending on scope
- Fully custom, multi-page website = $2,500+ depending on scope
- Template based website = $800+ depending on scope
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.davidmudry.com/
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-mudry-92626013b
