Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

designfor15bucks.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 188 posts

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

#91

Post by marcofloriano »

jefflinwood wrote: post #49
siong1987 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I´m from Brazil and i already have stablished contact with him. You see here, $15 per hour is a good deal for a beginner designer. If he works 8 hours per day, he can make $120 bucks. In 20 days (avarage working month here), It´s a $2.400 or R$4.000,00. For somebody starting his professional life, around 24 ou 25 years old or even less, IT`S A KICK ASS MONEY !

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

#92

Post by bajsejohannes »

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…

Or, you could simply make it a feature. I would certainly not mind another link to my new page.

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

#93

Post by araneae »

byoung2 wrote: post #20
steveklabnik wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who says he's spending two hours or less? Normally, you'd spend hours on a portfolio for free. Now he's making a small amount.

Who says he's spending two hours or less? If he spends 1-2 hours on a design, that's $7.50-$15 per hour. Any longer and he wouldn't be making enough to be worth his time, even in the Philippines or India. For a true portfolio, you'd want better designs than 1-2 hour quickies

It's possible that maybe he's only spending an hour a piece on these, but he might go back to them later and build on them more for a portfolio. It's good to make a bunch of quick and diverse designs just to see what happens.

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

#94

Post by tlrobinson »

Not a bad idea if you can make the numbers work.

One variation would be to charge $15 per iteration. The first one might take you 2 hours, but each additional iteration might only take 15 minutes, in which case it becomes more economical.

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

#95

Post by zabraxias »

acangiano wrote: post #90

Somebody delivering the same service, but including HTML/CSS, could easily charge $150 and have more customers than they could possibly handle.

Intermediate level front-end web developers are costly due to high demand and the work is arguably more difficult. I agree the $150 might be great for someone offshore though.

In any case I like the idea behind the $15 blind design since designers tend to suffer from "I like it but..." with indefinite tweaks and last minute changes. I wouldn't be surprised if customers end up going through several iterations...which would still be inexpensive in this case.

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

#96

Post by eli »

crocowhile wrote: post #72
jonknee wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As I said, I closed down my google apps account a few months ago because things were missing or they arrived later compared to the regular gmail, so I don't know what you may be missing right now. Also, if you have an android phone you cannot buy apps if you sign in only with your apps account, you must use a regular account. That is a PITA, believe me.

Apps accounts don't play well with a lot of google services. It's quite complicated to grant Google Analytics access to an Apps account.

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

#97

Post by tlrobinson »

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'd rather do something I enjoy for slightly less money than get an office job or flip burgers.

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

#100

Post by notyourwork »

jacquesm wrote: post #33
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…

In Brazil a $ goes a bit further than in the US.

Can we quantify "a bit"? How much further?
Post reply on HN