Show HN: MadeForHackers.com - Kick ass landing pages, for kick ass hackers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2556844

by niico • 15 years ago

5 15 15 years ago

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Hi everyone! Im pleased to introduce MadeForHackers.com which is a tiny agency focused on designing beautiful handmade landing pages, user interfaces and logos for hardcore developers, like you guys.

This project is focused exclusively on helping hackers like you, stay focused on what you do best: Hacking.

I know there are a couple apps that helps you build landing pages but MadeForHackers offers handmade, unique and beautiful landing pages but also user interface design for web, mac, iphone, ipad, android, pc and logo designs at very competitive and accesible prices.

Each design is thought uniquely for each client.

Feel free to contact me anytime at nico@nico.im

Cheers, Nico.

niico4• 15 years ago

Linkeable: http://www.madeforhackers.com

vnuk• 15 years ago

Your header is broken (meta tag is missing its closing part) and your google analytics code is visible on page. Not really inspiring confidence ...

niico4• 15 years ago

Thanks for the heads up. Fixed! :)

dodo53• 15 years ago

Could do with more of a portfolio of previous work - there's not much to go on at the moment.

niico4• 15 years ago

You can see some snapshots from previews works here: http://dribbble.com/nicogarcia

fractallyte• 15 years ago

Some typos:

Original: '...interfaces design at very accesible prices. Are you a hacker? Make your self home.'

Corrected: '...interface design at very accessible prices. Are you a hacker? Make your self at home.'

Otherwise, nice idea! There's certainly a need for this, for many hackers...

petervandijck• 15 years ago

"Handmade" and you're using stock icons on your own landing page?

Apart from that, I think it's a great idea.

1. Focus even more. ONLY do landing pages.

2. Make sure there are at least 4 examples we can see.

3. Set a fixed price.

knes• 15 years ago

wayyyy too pricey!

Everybody here can probably code a "nice" landing page and use launchrock widget.

You should maybe make something more standard, closer to launchrock but with more customisation like A/B testing, integration with Mailchimp/sendgrid/whatever

I would pay less then $100 for that anyway.

proexploit• 15 years ago

I haven't had time to review his portfolio and decide if he's worth it, but that is not too pricey. The fact that you wouldn't pay $100 for it does not mean it's without value.

Everybody here can code a nice landing page? I see thread after thread of Hackers saying "Hey! I don't don't know much about design, where do I start?" or "Where can I find an affordable skilled designer?". If your user interface / design skills (as well as HTML & CSS code) are truly up to par, congratulations, but there are many here who are not.

If you prefer to work through things on your own and wouldn't consider paying $100 for a professional designer's time, that's fine, it's your choice. Posting that this is too pricey is an extreme fallacy and in my opinion, required correction.

eswat• 15 years ago

Sweet project, but just a heads up: you forgot to set some fallback fonts for the Pricing area. I, and probably most people you’re targeting, don’t have Helvetica 55.

kellyreid• 15 years ago

great idea, but it seems like you're making everything look very "stock". i suppose if you want your startup to look like another "web 2.0" company, then great, but I'd like to see some examples of how you took a personalized brand and turned it into something exceptional.

you're also charging way too much, and i hope your ad copy is just placeholder. i spend a lot of time on the internet laughing at LOL Cats (i admit it), but you can really do better than to name your pricing tier "I can haz design". evne for a proof of concept, maybe aim for a bit of professionalism.

i feel like the 3-option pricing tier image is really overdone (guilty of this myself) and you can easily find a more creative way to display, well...your creativity.

in all, i love the IDEA but the implementation is lackluster. you provide an easy way to get a cookie cutter image, which works for some people, but serious startup can afford to pay for a unique design. cheapskates like me can just spend an afternoon in photoshop mocking up the same things that you're offering for well under $400.

keep at it, and keep honing your design chops, because the core idea is sound.

codenerdz• 15 years ago

Dont feel me, bro!

http://madeforhackers.com/x/2.5.png

Good tagline for a tshirt, not for a business

niico4• 15 years ago

Thanks for the feedback everyone

UPDATE: Prices and typos fixed!

Groxx• 15 years ago

Needs full site / images for examples, IMO. The dribbble is nice, and I think shows good taste, but a 400x300 corner-image is not a website. Demo what you're selling, not just your style, and either way, more!

edit: and FYI, yiipu.com is coming up with broken images, and roll-overs for your buttons aren't loaded either. Though it seems your site is now being HN'd, so that could be the cause. For the buttons specifically, eager-load those things, a load-on-mouseover generally strikes me as an oversight.

phlux• 15 years ago

I love this, and I need this - but I don't $99 need this -- I $20 to $40 need this....

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