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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 Huppie »

indiejade wrote: post #47

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. :)

Since you're probably using that website to get clients, you might want to verify that all the pages work. (The link you used works, clicking on any of the links gives me a 404.)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Huppie wrote: post #51
indiejade wrote: post #47

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. :)

Since you're probably using that website to get clients, you might want to verify that all the pages work. (The link you used works, clicking on any of the links gives me a 404.)

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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 chunkbot »

mgkimsal wrote: post #46
TamDenholm wrote: post #44

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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 :)

This would make for a fun A/B test: "$15 + $5 extra" vs. "$20 - $5 discount".

You might collect some evidence that people like getting a deal more than getting hit with an extra cost.

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

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Post by Legion »

hoop wrote: post #41

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…

No no, not 13. I said 14. Nobody's coming up with 13. Who makes a web design in 13 minutes?

14's the key number here. Think about it. 14 days in a fortnight. 14 - the atomic number of silicon. 14 stations of the cross. 14, man, that's the number.

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

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Post by user24 »

hoop wrote: post #41

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…

but on the web, there is no street on which to see sites next to each other.

I knew a jewellery company once which had two sites. One was all red and gold and stars and flashing things, the other was all purple and white and curvy things. The items on the purple posh looking one were 15% more expensive. Same products on each - heck, it was the same database, product description and images on each site!

Point is, this is the internet, you can do that kind of thing.

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

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Post by Staydecent »

I'm wondering, as I'm not making any money (devoting time to a startup idea) right now, if anyone would be interested in a similar service for the markup?

I'm really quite good and would charge $15/page. I can offer impressive turn around times and even CMS(WordPress) integration for an additional flat-fee($250?).

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

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Post by mortenjorck »

jeffclark wrote: post #35
[deleted] wrote: post #22

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...as in "dentist" or "male prostitute"?

Normally, I find the remains of partially-deleted comment threads on HN disruptive and irritating.

Normally.

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

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Post by jonknee »

crocowhile wrote: post #39
bry wrote: post #26

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There is a free version of Google Apps: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

There is. I used that for several years. However I don't anymore because if you work alone or small groups I strongly suggest to use a regular gmail/google account and forward your @domain.com email there instead of using the gmail/app. Otherwise you will be always be running an outdated version of all gmail services and there is no real benefit really in having gmail handling your MX.

That requires you to maintain a mail server of your own and everything that comes with that. I prefer to have pagers go off at Google's HQ instead of mine when something happens.

What features are you using in Gmail that I'm not getting in Google Apps? I have priority inbox and all the latest Labs experiments. I haven't heard of anything I'm missing.

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