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12+ years of designing.
Somehow, I never had a website that felt like me.
So I finally fixed that.
rahul.design/ is live.
Less a portfolio, more like walking into my head for five minutes. Go poke around.
If you're building something that deserves great design, I want to be part of it, DM's are open.
🎬 Directed, designed and animated the launch film for @micro1_ai, concept to final cut 🚀
Which personal agent is the best life assistant?
Today we're releasing the micro1 PersonalAgentBench to help answer that, and we're paying real personal agent users to contribute to the benchmark.
Personal agents can now book your flights, answer emails, and move your meetings around. That’s great, until one messages the wrong person or makes a purchase without confirming.
Capability is not the same as trust. So we put four personal agents to the test: Instinct, Muse, Grok Bot, and Gemini Spark. We found that even when agents found the right information, they still often miss what matters, overshare, or make things up.
To find out for yourself how your agent compares, you can join our benchmark. We’re paying the first 100 users to run our prompts and share their results.
Got a launch coming up? My DMs are open.
rahul.design/
I've just voted for Why Zero for Site of the Month to win a year in the @Awwwards Directory @pixelandpump lfg awwwards.com/sites/why-zero
You can have 30 years of experience and still be a dumbfuck for comparing a portfolio review to a r*pe case.
Always remember: a beginner’s mindset is the pro designer mindset.
No, I won’t check out your portfolio.
Here’s why.
Anytime you ask someone to do something, it’s a pitch. In a pitch, say what’s in it for the other person.
What’s in it for me to check out your portfolio? Why would I spend my time, energy, and attention—all of which I value highly—on that as opposed to anywhere else?
If there’s nothing in it for me, then you’re asking for charity.
If you’re asking for charity, then ask for charity. Make it clear. I like doing favors sometimes and being charitable sometimes. But I can’t tell if that’s what you’re asking for, and I won’t assume it.
Even if I agreed to it, you haven’t even given me any criteria. Is there something specific you want help with? Something to improve? Something you’re stuck on? Some job it’s not doing?
General questions get general answers. Specific questions get specific answers.
Since I don’t know what you want help with and there doesn’t seem to be much incentive for me, it’s a pass.
Here are some examples of pitches I would consider more (even if I’d still say no):
“Dan, would you be willing to do me a favor and review my portfolio to help me land a design job working on a U.S.-based team for a fintech startup?”
“Dan, can you please review my portfolio to see if the UI design work feels closer to junior or senior caliber? I’ll make a donation to your favorite non-profit as a token of thanks.”
“Dan, would you mind looking at my portfolio to see if I’m the kind of person you’d hire? I know you value your time, attention, and energy, so I’d gladly take any feedback you can provide after looking for even 30 seconds.”
@odeniransulaimo, wanna pitch again? I’m open to you trying again if you’d like.
But even better: pitch someone who’s in a closer position to help you get what you want. If you want a job at a sports betting startup, pitch a hiring manager at a sports betting startup to check out your portfolio. Even if they won’t hire you for THEIR startup, their feedback would be way more relevant to getting a job at a sports betting startup than my feedback would be, since I’ve never worked at a sport betting startup.
In short, when you pitch, make it about them and make it as easy as possible for them to give you what you want.
It takes one guy and a crypto community to build a school for underprivileged kids. Way to go, @Adityaaa_Sharma
28 days. 28 states. 1 school.
I'm building a school in a village called Solana, funded by a token on Solana, and documenting the entire journey across India. One state a day.
Introducing $SLATE
CA: EU5WWxWBjDzfs3pvb6N7yuc6gBfo5Ltao6qfdXDiH2U3
solanaschool.in
The brutal part of publishing:
You spend weeks making something and obsessing over every detail. It finally feels like yours. Then you hit publish.
And suddenly it isn’t.
Copied. Remixed. Rebuilt. Referenced.
That’s the tax for making things on the internet.
I’ve been quietly working on a little side project, and I finally have it ready for some real world testing!
I made Charms, a tiny interactive music playground for tiny hands. 🎵 Eight notes, no wrong ones, no feed, no ads. Just something kids can tap, explore, and play with.
It started with me thinking about screens, scrolling, and what I’d actually want my own kid to do with one, so I made something that’s less about consuming and more about making.
It’s currently on TestFlight, and I’d love for you to try it, especially with the little humans in your life.
