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Show HN: Draftss – Design and Code on Monthly Subscription
- jatsign 8y agoSeems kind of neat, but I wonder who the target audience is? Has to be a company that has enough ongoing design work that it justifies the price, but not so much that they could just bring it in house. Is that a large segment? I have no idea. On a similar tack, I recently started using a company that has a monthly cost ($250) for 4k words worth of blog posts, which I use to write blog articles for several side projects. I've been happy to outsource this chore, so perhaps a market does exist for Draftss as well. Best of luck.
- JunaidBhai 8y agoMostly founders look for consistent design requirements for their startups. Apart from founders, other design agencies white-label our services and forward them to their clients.
- jatsign 8y agoThanks - both make sense. Your services listing shows a range for time each takes (which of course makes sense). It'd be great if, on the portfolio page, you listed how long each took, to get a better sense of which ones were "easy" and which "hard".
- bschwindHN 8y ago> On a similar tack, I recently started using a company that has a monthly cost ($250) for 4k words worth of blog posts What the hell? That seems outrageous for a blog. What am I missing?
- tmikaeld 8y agoOutrageous!? I thought it was cheap. Where do you find your copywriters, if that's expensive?
- bschwindHN 8y agoI guess I didn't realize it was copywriting and not just "writing blog posts for side projects".
- dawnerd 8y agoThat’s a perfectly acceptable price. A bit low actually.
- exolymph 8y agoThat's about $0.06 per word, which is quite low for copywriting, especially tech copywriting. My base rate for that type of work was $0.25 per word at minimum.
- slig 8y agoCan you share the name of that company?
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- motdiem 8y ago> a company that has a monthly cost ($250) for 4k words worth of blog posts can you share the name ? This sounds interesting
- jatsign 8y agohttps://contentfly.co/ https://contentfly.co/
- michaelbuckbee 8y agoMy understanding is that the market for most landing page sites (which is what Draftss is targeting here) is not tech founders or companies like what most HN folks are doing, but things like people putting on lots of webinars, real estate folks, small mom and pop places that are moving around as "pop up shops", etc.
- the_other_guy 8y agohow many times should you put your project as a SHOW HN post?
- JunaidBhai 8y agoWe are launching all our products under the Draftss brand.
- tmikaeld 8y agoI was interested. But couldn't get their company details and no Privacy Policy, not via their chat either. They just repeated "Draftss" as company name, but I can't find any such company.
- JunaidBhai 8y agoWe are still in process of setting up things. Would provide you with the required details. Here is my email: jd@draftss.com
- bschwindHN 8y agoYour site constantly "jumps" up and down on mobile safari due to the animated text typing and deleting. Not very good for reading.
- JunaidBhai 8y agoThanks for sharing. I shall have it fixed.
- PaulHoule 8y agoAnother subscription service. Why? Are you hoping that some people will forget that they signed up and then keep paying you for years?
- pembrook 8y agoThe work samples on their portfolio look pretty bad but I actually think this is a great idea. Many businesses have ongoing design or development needs but not enough revenue to sustain adding a full time hire. This would be perfect for them. In fact, the retainer model has been popular with agencies for decades. It allows the client to get work whenever needed without having to brief, scope, contract, and bid out a new team each time. On the agency side, it allows them the reliable revenue to retain the talented employees that the client hired the agency for in the first place. It's a win win.
- JunaidBhai 8y agoDefinitely not something that can be subscribed and not used. It's more like an all you can eat buffet in a month's time eliminates the lengthy decision time taken on customer's end.
- chanthony 8y agoI think the website seems pretty good. Although, I don't find any codes in your portfolio.
- JunaidBhai 8y agoWe have not uploaded the codes yet. If you would like to see some of our projects, I shall send it to you via email.
- ilovetux 8y agoBad cert domain error when navigating to https://draftss.com https://draftss.com.
- JunaidBhai 8y agoWe are still in process of setting up the SSL certificate. Meanwhile, try using http://draftss.com http://draftss.com
- dennisy 8y agoI nearly signed up until I saw the portfolio page :(
- JunaidBhai 8y agoI'm not sure what you've been looking for, but would definitely help you resolve over the email. Connect with me on jd@draftss.com Also, we have a 100% money back guarantee if you do not like the designs we create for you.
- jscholes 8y agoYour home page, pricing info and FAQ are littered with grammatical and word choice errors. I understand that this is probably frustrating for you if English is not your first or native language. But I also need to have confidence that a design company are going to pay attention to that sort of thing, taking steps to overcome their own language deficiencies. Can't comment on the quality of your design work as I'm visually impaired.