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A comment on YC startups seeking designers for Feb 2011 designer directory. Parent comment

Re:YC startups seeking designers for Feb 2011 designer direc... by ncbutters on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @10:12PM (#2168773)
Im sorry...but I, being a designer who has done both consulting and full-time work and 'likes to think' he tries to solve the customer's problem first and foremost, find this rate of $300-500/hr extremely high. Has anyone else heard of numbers like this being made, be that full-time or consulting?
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Re:YC startups seeking designers for Feb 2011 designer direc... by spitfire on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @10:52PM (#2168893)
move upmarket. A small dotcom may now be able to pay $300/hr but when you're setting up an independently regulated financial utopia (See the independent finance centre of the americas) a few shekels for design is nothing.

I have no doubt sites like national geographics website cost over a million. Just like a good iphone app costs $200K+ good design costs, and is exceedingly rare.

example: winkreative

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Re:YC startups seeking designers for Feb 2011 designer direc... by ThomPete on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @04:13AM (#2169620)
I am up around there, so it is possible
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Re:YC startups seeking designers for Feb 2011 designer direc... by richcollins on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @12:45AM (#2169196)
That's probably charging by the project, not by the hour. The /hr is an effective rate.
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