Hey,<p>My friends and I just started this service and we would love to hear what HN thinks about it.<p>We promise to deliver good quality in any design task customers submit and at the same time we promise to deliver it under 24 hours.<p>URL: http://kapa99.com
Given how many small design jobs happen on Fiverr, I'm sure there's a viable potential business here as well.<p>The landing page isn't particularly attractive, easy to read, or clear. It might be worth hiring one of the designers you have a relationship with to have it professionally done. Everything on the "how does it work" page should probably be on the front page, which doesn't do a good job of conveying what you're offering or what a buyer can expect for that $99.<p>The headline doesn't really capture what you're doing either -- "we design so you don't have to" might describe the web design profession, but not you as a middleman offering unlimited design work on retainer.
Sounds like a cool idea, I don't need it at the moment but I do have a few questions:<p>1) What happens if you don't deliver in 24 hours? Can I bet my business on your promises?<p>2) What is your copyright assignment language? I'd like to know that before paying for anything.<p>3) Same deal for NDAs - Where are you located? I can't send certain info overseas for example.<p>4) "Chicken" is misspelled in one of your portfolio images. If I were you I'd either fix it or remove it because it looks sloppy.<p>5) Devils advocate here: What's stopping me from arbitrage? I submit a job to you every day for 99designs projects, and then submit your work as my own. Shoot I could probably even write a script for this...
The company I work for used to hire a marketing/design agency on the same system (and about the same price, too).<p>The problem was that the results reflected a total apathy and poor quality, plus they took several days to deliver simple requests.<p>I'm not sure if "unlimited" is the right offer, it does catch the eye, but it might attract the wrong sort of customer, and you might find yourselves unable to deliver.
"DESIGN JOBS FOR JUST 99 BUCKS PER MONTH" sounds like you're paying designers $99/month :) Seems you mean "We do your design tasks for 99 bucks per month"
ToS link returns a 404.<p>I might sign up for a 'Pro' plan next paycheck if they're acceptable. Could I use the service as my own outsourced design staff? Or would I be limited to using it for my own designs?<p>How long is your introductory offer running? I get paid every 2 weeks, so couldn't sign up today, even if your ToS is okay. What happens once the limited time offer is over? Prices go up, or you stop accepting clients?