Show HN: A better elance just for designers

My biggest problem with hiring designers like this is that it encourages designing for other designers, rather than for the customer. I want a designer that prioritizes something that's easy to use and obvious, rather than something that screenshots well for Dribbble. Sometimes those two goals can align, but not always.

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I showed it to my wife who is a account manager at a branding &#x2F; design firm. She is someone who would be a potential user of the site as someone looking for a designer.<p>Her impression was that the site made her sign up and then provided no value. She showed me a very plain looking page that just said &quot;I am looking for a designer.&quot; Now she is worried that the site is going to spam her forever.<p>Hope that feedback helps.

I don&#x27;t mean to offend but your sites theme looks like something I could pickup for $10 on Themeforest. Consider making it easier for users to see the way the system works, examples and use cases, as well as success stories (I recognize you are currently new).<p>Additionally, consider changing your front page video to someone actually designing something.<p>Also use margin-bottom: 0 on your about page to eliminate evil whitespace!

Dear Pixelfold team, the graph icon above &quot;2. The community votes&quot; on the site looks like someone&#x27;s showing a middle finger! You may want to change it, considering the impression you want to create as a community of top designers.

Sounds like a good idea. We used to spend lot of time on dribbble and other websites and its really difficult to figure out which designers are good without wasting weeks... How does the community curates?

That could probably work for developers.<p>All the freelance sites I use have the option to link to github, stackoverflow and others, but not do anything with that.

Can you also make a better elance&#x2F;odesk just for programmers? Seriously; elance isn&#x27;t it and the average hourly rate on there is about $10.

The self-curation is a great idea. It&#x27;s something we want to implement on our own find-a-designer site (Folyo) down the road.

How would you go about preventing elitism from creeping in, given its self-curating nature?

Does it work for individual designers only or design firms can apply as well?