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Just wanted to chime in as an early satisfied Awesomic user. I always have half a dozen side projects going (as you can see via my "Show HN" history) and always

by memset 5y ago

Just wanted to chime in as an early satisfied Awesomic user. I always have half a dozen side projects going (as you can see via my "Show HN" history) and always have a little bit of design needs that I can't do via Bootstrap. I've been burned by upwork/fiverr in the past who charge $100/hr with no upper bound on the amount of time it will take to iterate on a design that will work. I've often just scrapped the design work entirely because it was too hard to get to the right end result. The platform basically guarantees that I'll see some progress once per day (the predictability is nice), and I don't have to worry about using up my 1 revision, or whatever I'd agreed to. If I choose to spend the entire month on a single project to get it right, then great, I don't have to do a calculation every time. Congrats on getting into YC!

Pavlyshyna 5y ago
hi! Thank you for much for sharing your thoughts and feedback! We also hate this concept of limiting revisions or a need to negotiate every single detail. It takes focus from the work and result to some routine. I am so happy you saw Awesomic as a valuable alternative!
OJFord 5y ago
You pay $500pcm for graphics design work on your side projects? Are they income generating or are you just really committing to getting them/one off the ground without actually quitting 'the day job'?
- memset 5y ago
  I start/stop my subscription depending on the work that I have. Some of the side projects (for example, themusiciansnotebook.com) are actually revenue generating and so I have more wiggle room to spend $500 for a month's worth of design. For example, I make notebooks on behalf of others, so I will work with a designer to help create covers/graphics/etc. Since I pay for a month at a time, once the work for the above project is done, I'll use the remaining time to have Awesomeic's folks help with wireframes for other projects, which may not have revenue or be launched (prototypes, etc) so that I fully utilize the platform.

by memset 5y ago

Pavlyshyna 5y ago

hi! Thank you for much for sharing your thoughts and feedback! We also hate this concept of limiting revisions or a need to negotiate every single detail. It takes focus from the work and result to some routine. I am so happy you saw Awesomic as a valuable alternative!

OJFord 5y ago

You pay $500pcm for graphics design work on your side projects? Are they income generating or are you just really committing to getting them/one off the ground without actually quitting 'the day job'?

memset 5y ago
I start/stop my subscription depending on the work that I have. Some of the side projects (for example, themusiciansnotebook.com) are actually revenue generating and so I have more wiggle room to spend $500 for a month's worth of design. For example, I make notebooks on behalf of others, so I will work with a designer to help create covers/graphics/etc. Since I pay for a month at a time, once the work for the above project is done, I'll use the remaining time to have Awesomeic's folks help with wireframes for other projects, which may not have revenue or be launched (prototypes, etc) so that I fully utilize the platform.