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Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by hoop »

Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a design store, you see designfor15bucks.com sittin' there, there's designfor14bucks.com right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?

Ted: I would go for the 14.

Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. designfor14bucks.com. And we guarantee just as good a design as the designfor15bucks.com folk.

Ted: You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that?

Hitchhiker: If you're not happy with the first 14 bucks of design, we're gonna send you the extra dollar of design free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B".

Ted: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with designfor13bucks.com. Then you're in trouble, huh?

Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by TamDenholm »

Sukotto wrote: post #40

You allow me to put a screenshot of the design on this page; ($5 extra if you don't) You could reword that clause so your clients feel they're getting something valuable for their $5. Please note that I post all designs to my public portfolio and this website. If you need the design to stay secret, it only costs $5 more Or you could invert your pricing. So you start off as "designfor20bucks" and offer a $5 discount i…

Really good advice here, problem is, it'd require changing of the domain name. :P

Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by lhorie »

coffeeaddicted wrote: post #43

As psd file - so I would have to spend another few hundred $ to get a legal Photoshop to watch it?

Or you could spend $3 by going to a local internet cafe (or Kinkos or whatever) and downloading the free 30-day trial vesion (Assuming they don't already have a copy there)

Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by mgkimsal »

TamDenholm wrote: post #44
Sukotto wrote: post #40

You allow me to put a screenshot of the design on this page; ($5 extra if you don't) You could reword that clause so your clients feel they're getting something valuable for their $5. Please note that I post all designs to my public portfolio and this website. If you need the design to stay secret, it only costs $5 more Or you could invert your pricing. So you start off as "designfor20bucks" and offer a $5 discount i…

Really good advice here, problem is, it'd require changing of the domain name. :P

or two domains point to the same site, and have a $20 in the logo slashed out, replaced with $15.You're the creative one - make it work :)

Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

#47

Post by indiejade »

A couple weeks ago I built http://www.hackeress.com with the crowdspring / 99Designs clientèle in mind (who seems to be your audience).

You could expand your site and add a section for designers who specialize in the code-writing aspect of design. Just a thought.

EDIT: Fixed. I'm still working on the site's content; got busy over the holiday. But the design of the site is done, as are the custom 404 error pages. :)

Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by jefflinwood »

siong1987 wrote: post #10
swombat wrote: post #3

Assuming it takes you at least 1-2 hours per design (and even with mad photoshop skillz it's unlikely it'd be much shorter than that), you're probably better off getting an office job somewhere, or even maybe a burger-flipping job. Given all the additional expenses of running your own business, this is probably not a viable business model (i.e. you will lose money on the whole). The only way this would be justified i…

I don't know where this guy comes from. But, USD15/hour is a very high rate in many countries. Or, he is just trying to build up his portfolio and get his name out there. This seems like a very good approach to attract people attention.

Looks like he's in Brazil from his paypal page. Not sure about the cost of living there, but that's probably a decent wage for a lot of people there.
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