Offer HN: free design work. • Hacker News Board

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

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Post by casabian » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 3:11 AM UTC

I'm doing a project in which I live in a different neighborhood in New York City with different people every week. I guess I'd rather see this go to the Africa nutrition society but I'd love to improve the site and do some cool things with maps / linking to specific posts.

The site is on tumblr right now at http://thenycnomad.tumblr.com.

Thanks!

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

#42

Post by happybuy » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 3:14 AM UTC

I'm looking to produce a few banner ads for our new startup: http://www.happybuy.com/

Would be interested in an outsiders thoughts on the best creative to express the idea of the site and have banner-ad viewers turn into active users.

My initial thought would be to simply have different banner ads highlighting a product along with its price graph. It quickly shows the utility of the site and how you can save money by knowing the best time to buy. Turning product info such as:

http://www.happybuy.com/product/Apple-iPad-MB292LLA-Tablet-1...

into a mini-banner ad could provide some insight, more so than a simple brand focused ad.

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

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Post by jacquesm » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 3:53 AM UTC

Hey Sahil,

I'd very much like to take you up on your offer of doing design work but I would feel embarrassed to see you do it for free which means I can not enter in this round.

But if after you're done doing this really fantastically nice thing you feel you still have energy left over to do one more site and get paid for it then let me know, email in my profile.

greetings,

  Jacques

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

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Post by rfugger » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 6:30 AM UTC

http://ripplepay.com/ - It's a monetary system that works in a peer-to-peer credit network rather than the hierarchical banking network. See http://ripple-project.org/.

It's been a project of mine for five years now, and I'm working on a rewrite and need a new design.

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

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Post by manveru » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 7:09 AM UTC

neilkod wrote: post #6

http://www.mymomjust.com and http://www.mydadjust.com . Using hadoop/pig, I searched through my 620-million strong twitter archive for all tweets containing "My Mom/Dad Just....." The results are hilarious. It's just a single-page site and could be some low-hanging design fruit.

mydadjust.com has My Mom Just...

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

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Post by manveru » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 7:12 AM UTC

daleathan wrote: post #21

Hello Sahil, Excellent offer, I hope you have fun creating and blogging about the process. I would like to suggest creating a logo for the Gramps project [1] (a Genealogy Program) which I just found a few days ago and in a reply to me one the developers mentioned that they have "No real official logo."[2] and from the looks of the project they could use a new wiki template[3]. Please consider upvoting to help improve…

I should replace myself with a bot that does this, but here's the real URL of [2]: http://gramps.1791082.n4.nabble.com/Impressed-with-Gramps-an...

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

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Post by gradschool » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 7:54 AM UTC

philfreo wrote: post #18

michaelfairley wrote: post #8

http://remembersaurus.com - My recently launched webapp, and also my first attempt at making something look decent on the web.

Hey we're doing some really similar stuff at Quizlet.com (small startup but over 1 million registered users), let me know if you want to chat. http://quizlet.com/

Very cool site. I can't remember the link, but I read a while back about a researcher who discovered that the optimum way to memorize using flash cards is if a learner who answers incorrectly is shown the correct answer and then asked again after a number of other questions just at the point where the correction is on the threshold of slipping out of his short term memory. This length of time has to be optimized for each learner by some sort of adaptive algorithm. Have you considered doing anything like that, or do you already?

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

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Post by neilkod » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 1:07 PM UTC

manveru wrote: post #45

neilkod wrote: post #6

http://www.mymomjust.com and http://www.mydadjust.com . Using hadoop/pig, I searched through my 620-million strong twitter archive for all tweets containing "My Mom/Dad Just....." The results are hilarious. It's just a single-page site and could be some low-hanging design fruit.

mydadjust.com has My Mom Just...

thanks! Copy/paste fail! Fixed it.

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

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Post by neilkod » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 1:08 PM UTC

mikeklaas wrote: post #32

neilkod wrote: post #6

http://www.mymomjust.com and http://www.mydadjust.com . Using hadoop/pig, I searched through my 620-million strong twitter archive for all tweets containing "My Mom/Dad Just....." The results are hilarious. It's just a single-page site and could be some low-hanging design fruit.

I think your site already looks quite good. Just clean up the about bar (remove underlines, vertical center text, add more space between each item)

um how? Dammit Jim I'm a data nerd, not a UI designer! This is why I threw my hat into the competition ;)

Re: Offer HN: free design work.

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Post by sjs382 » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 1:45 PM UTC

http://isshort.com