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Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

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Re: Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

#11

How can you offer unlimited designs at $467/month? That seems very cheap. It doesn't take much for that to be negative margin right? What am I missing?

Prolly a limit on how quick it is done therefore a real limit on designs per month. A bit like “unlimited” shared hosting plans.

Re: Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

#12

How can you offer unlimited designs at $467/month? That seems very cheap. It doesn't take much for that to be negative margin right? What am I missing?

Prolly a limit on how quick it is done therefore a real limit on designs per month. A bit like “unlimited” shared hosting plans.

Makes sense. Seems a bit like false advertising. Unlimited requests in this context doesn't really tell you how many design hours you are buying.

Re: Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

#13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prolly a limit on how quick it is done therefore a real limit on designs per month. A bit like “unlimited” shared hosting plans.

Makes sense. Seems a bit like false advertising. Unlimited requests in this context doesn't really tell you how many design hours you are buying.

Unlimited isn’t possible because of how time and limits works, right? Is there ever an opportunity to market as unlimited without it being false?

Re: Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Makes sense. Seems a bit like false advertising. Unlimited requests in this context doesn't really tell you how many design hours you are buying.

Unlimited isn’t possible because of how time and limits works, right? Is there ever an opportunity to market as unlimited without it being false?

Unlimited can be used honestly when it's practically impossible to reach the limit. For example if you are offering unlimited drink refills at a restaurant that is fair advertising because it's really unlikely your whole supply of soda syrup will be drained.

In this case it's clearly not viable because someone could easily hit a limit for design requests where it's just not possible to fulfil them on the budget. ~$500 is nothing like a months worth of unlimited design requests even if you only make a few requests per day.

Re: Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

#15

First of all, congrats! If you run it all by yourself, why do you write "us" everywhere?

Presumably Brett is not doing all of the design work if any.

Nopez, he's doing it all by himself. Really admirable.

Re: Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

#16

How can you offer unlimited designs at $467/month? That seems very cheap. It doesn't take much for that to be negative margin right? What am I missing?

You're missing the conflict at the core of this business model. It motivates the provider to take as long as possible without souring the business relationship, because the faster they work, the less they're getting paid. So the unlimited part is basically marketing BS.

Re: Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

#17

How can you offer unlimited designs at $467/month? That seems very cheap. It doesn't take much for that to be negative margin right? What am I missing?

You're missing the conflict at the core of this business model. It motivates the provider to take as long as possible without souring the business relationship, because the faster they work, the less they're getting paid. So the unlimited part is basically marketing BS.

Did you look at the site at all? He clearly advertises a 48 hour average turnaround time.

Re: Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

#19
At the risk of being "that guy", this post really isn't fit for a Show HN:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> ...

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, curated lists, and other reading material can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs.[1]

This is just you sharing your landing page and bragging about how well your business is doing. Congrats on your success, though, and I expect some interesting discussion about the business model in the comments at least.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Re: Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably Brett is not doing all of the design work if any.

Nopez, he's doing it all by himself. Really admirable.

then it seems disingenuous to write "Work with some of the best designers in the world."
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