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How do you find a web designer for your web startup?
- hacker64 19y agoI use elance.com. I post my projects there and they bid.
- figgy 19y agoFirst, use a web designer, not a graphics/print designer. You won't regret it. You can try sites like CreativeHotLink.com or Craigslist.org
- waleedka 19y agoThat's what I meant. Corrected the title.
- SwellJoe 19y agoI've had poor luck with elance. The quality just hasn't been very high.
- waleedka 19y agoHad a similar experience with elance. So how did you end up doing it? In house?
- pellegrino 19y agoIve used these guys. Low cost, solid quality. http://monvia.com/ http://monvia.com/
- waleedka 19y agoTheir web site looks nice, but they seem expensive!!! What's "Low Cost" to you? Ballpark figure? I know some companies charge thousands of dollars, and that's beyond my budget.
- brett 19y agoHow is that a design firm? From their homepage: MonVia is a business and technology accelerator built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. And the "What we do" page only mentions design in passing: http://monvia.com/whatwedo.html http://monvia.com/whatwedo.html Given what they claim to do, who frequents news.yc, the fact that this is your only comment (or post) and how out of context this recommendation seems to be, you're setting off some serious spam flags. Assuming you deserve the benefit of the doubt : Care to clarify or point us to their web design wing?
- waleedka 19y agoAnyone knows who the y-comb startups use? Most of them have decent designs and they're on a small budget. What's their secret?
- pg 19y agoThey're all designed by different people. Though in a sense they all use me, since I nag them to fix the more egregious design mistakes.
- waleedka 19y agoThey're lucky, and you're doing a great nagging job.
- randallsquared 19y agoI think their secret is that YC deliberately tries to choose founders with a certain design sensibility.
- SwellJoe 19y agoI've noticed this, too. Wufoo are famously good, and Kevin does all of that work. SocialMoth/Overhear.us have awesome design and Evan does everything. iminlikewithyou.com is tasty (if a bit overly pretty), and I believe they do it in-house, as well. Reddit is great and clean, and Alexis and Steve designed it. Everyone is swayed by a nice clean design, even technically savvy folks like YC (they also know that a good design can make a good product great, and with bad design the best product will probably fail--MySpace being an obvious and baffling exception to that rule).