Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP

Re:Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your... by tomjen3 on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @03:47AM (#2601801)

>I think both are a major insult to originality and craft that comes with quality design work - the exploitation of the latter, crowdsourced design work, just makes me flat out nauseous.

The cup I am drinking from would properly also have been considered a major insult to some craftperson a couple centuries ago, but I am perfectly happy paying less in return for something that just works.

As for 99 designs, can we please stop this exploitation bullshit? These people choose to offer their service there.

What most people (not necessarily you) mean when they talk about the exploitation of the designers is that they press down the price - to which all I can say is, welcome to capitalism.

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Re:Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your... by Neputys on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @05:05AM (#2601936)

Good design is valued for it's impact. In other words it sells. Products, services and most importantly ideas. The thing that bothers me most is that people completely miss this point. They just want to order "some design". Witch is completely useless no matter how much u pay. Services like 99designs encourage this behavior in "designers" as well as clients. Or maybe it's better to say that they exploit it. There's nothing good about this, especially for clients.

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