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A mentor once told me something that stuck:
Stop trying to win clients by being cheaper than everyone else.
There's always another designer willing to charge less.
And now there's AI that can produce something good enough for a fraction of the cost.
If price is your biggest advantage, you're playing a game that's getting harder to win every day.
Despite motion designers and sound designers being "cooked" by AI models I still haven't seen anyone ship anything good with a fully AI made launch video.
In most cases the video is so obviously lackluster that most comments keep pointing it out instead of focusing on the product.
The product in itself is usually not that well made either.
It turns out your tendency to use cheap shortcuts also translates to how you build your product.
There's a good saying I always like to remember: How you do some things is how you do all things.
Ansh is looking for a CTO, a designer, and someone who scaled a startup to $3M ARR all in one person
Tag me when you find this mythical guy 🙏
One-in-a-lifetime opportunity 🚨‼️
One of my angel investment portfolio companies just hit $10M ARR in 4 weeks. Consumer AI. They’re looking to bring someone on as CTO to lead product/design.
Who’s in SF and down to meet? DM me.
Must have previously gotten an app to minimum top 20 on the app store or $3M ARR.
Why does every designer eventually end up with the exact same portfolio?
White BG, left aligned bold text, and a carousel
Please let me know!
The fastest way a design partnership loses value is when strategy and visual work stay separate
Messaging, positioning, and the actual design decisions need to happen together
Otherwise you end up with a polished page that still confuses the buyer or undersells the product
I'm pretty sure @zach_yadegari intentions are genuine
But this response is setting a pretty bad example of how your company treats potential hires
I don't think the issue here is rejecting a designer
It's wasting their time with unpaid project, giving misleading feedback, then publicly insulting their work
If you're looking for an "elite team", offering $100 for a design assignment isn't exactly going to attract the best talent either, lol
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I stopped taking projects under $7K because of this!
I realized I was underselling myself and spending too much energy on projects that weren't the right fit.
I’d rather work with founders who understand the impact great design can have on their business.
Bigger projects, better communication, and more room to solve real problems instead of just pushing pixels.
I'd rather take on fewer projects than fill my calendar with work that drains me mentally.
talked to a founder who paid a 30+ person agency over $50k for a website redesign.
it was absolute garbage.
this taught me that most really large agencies have junior designers doing the work while using 1 or 2 seniors on select projects.
small focused teams with senior talent will almost always beat them.
What I would change as a designer:
- I'd add visuals/animations to show what the product actually does, instead of relying on copy alone.
- Add accent color to make the hero stand out and create contrast.
- I'd get rid of the sidebar. It's adding visual noise without helping communicate the product's value.
Small changes, but they can completely change how people perceive your product
