What's the difference between this site and saying to a hacker: "Make [X]... If I don't like it, I won't use it... I won't pay for it, either." On one hand, th

What's the difference between this site and saying to a hacker: "Make [X]... If I don't like it, I won't use it... I won't pay for it, either." On one hand, there is no difference. People say this to hackers all the time. On Drupal.org this happens so much that there's an official process: There's a specific category in the ticket tracker called "Feature Request" which is applied to tickets in which end users beg the open-source developers to spend their free time developing one feature or another. Some of those requests succeed. But many of them are ignored, because the number of feature requests and their complexity is orders of magnitude greater than the number of available hackers and their talent. Of course, if code is built in five minutes for free by a twelve-year-old, it often doesn't work. (To get it to work, you have to pay the twelve-year-old $100 per hour to fix the bugs.) But if a corporate logo is a paint-by-numbers collection of the latest trendy visual cliches, thrown together in five minutes for free by (e.g.) the kind of amateur Photoshop jockey who enters the Fark Photoshop contests... most business owners will never know the difference. The designers on the no-spec site (e.g. http://www.no-spec.com/articles/why-speculation-hurts/ http://www.no-spec.com/articles/why-speculation-hurts/ ) sound like tailors, trying to convince us that mass-market clothing made in sweatshops and sold off the rack is a terrible product when compared to bespoke-tailored suits. And they're right, of course. But from the perspective of an owner of the local pizza parlor who needs a quick logo, it may not make much difference. I will say, though, that no-spec.com offers some of the most effectively-designed FUD I've ever seen. You should definitely shop there for all your scary-signage needs.