I know you're not taking any more design requests at the moment - but could you put a reminder form on your site that emails when you are? By Monday I'll have forgotton all about you.
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
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think the $5 makes a huge difference: and this way, the designer has more chance that people will allow him to post the design into his portfolio. I'm pretty sure he is not doing it for the money, but rather to get some experience and build up his portfolio.
$5 out of $15 is 33.3% and $5 out of $20 is 25% I'd say thats fairly significant.
It depends on the context; if you offered me 1 penny or 2 pennies, I really wouldn't care. (even though it's a 100% difference)
Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
#103I'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?).
Yes, definitely. If you offer it, I'll take you up on it once he's open for design applications again.
Cool! I'll setup a page for the service now.
Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
#104I just came across this site, which lets people sell their services for $5: http://www.fiverr.com/
Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
#105Somebody delivering the same service, but including HTML/CSS, could easily charge $150 and have more customers than they could possibly handle.
I find this extremely hard to believe. Have you visited freelancing sites to check this assumption?
Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
#106I think you guys are looking at this all wrong. This isn't $15 for a complete and polished design. This is $15 for Marco's inspiration and thoughts being invested into my product! $15 is nothing to lose out on if it falls on its face, but imagine the benefit you could be missing had you not tried?
Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
#107I bounced out immediately due to lack of Latest Design samples. I get the concept, like it, but gotta have examples.
I believe that's the reason this entire site exists. (Portfolio building).
Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
#108This is Genius.
You should only do one a day, and if someone wants to jump the line they can big higher than $15!!!
I'm going to put the Launch conference www.launch.is/conference and ThisWeekIn.com up for $50 each right now. $100 is no risk... if you have one good idea in each design it would be worth it.
i love this idea!
Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Brazil a $ goes a bit further than in the US.
Can we quantify "a bit"? How much further?
Price of a Big Mac in
USA: $3.73
Brazil: $5.19
(Big Mac index, http://www.oanda.com/currency/big-mac-index)
Jokes aside, in Brazil you need ~$1000/month to live* in a big city, ~$700 in a smaller one, ~$500 as a broken college student.
(live* as in small apartment, internet, public transportation, entertainment but no luxury).
Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
#110I bounced out immediately due to lack of Latest Design samples. I get the concept, like it, but gotta have examples.
I believe that's the reason this entire site exists. (Portfolio building).
It's a visual product so you got to prime the pump with visual samples to entice the first customer.