Comments on: Matt Mickiewicz, Founder Of Sitepoint, Flippa & 99Designs, Tells His Story

By: Jitendra Shah

Jitendra Shah — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:07:48 +0000

Ive used 99designs in the past. Such a good idea!

By: Sharon MacGregor

Sharon MacGregor — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:41:44 +0000

Yea this guy is a real genius….i love working for free and NOT getting paid! It’s a fun time! Gone are the days of working relationships with clients and actually getting to know a client. Oh and your $211 that u pay for a logo…the designer sees about $50 of it…no wonder he’s rich! I’m so glad to read about another rich genius who is getting his money off the backs of hard working people!

By: M

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:19:26 +0000

99Designs is a waste of time for designers. Competing for pay on completed projects? Hell no!

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Awesome Entrepreneurial Podcasts | a 4-Hour Workweek blog | My 4 Hours — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:29:01 +0000

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By: Andy@PowerBlog

Andy@PowerBlog — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:46:24 +0000

Support sounds good, reading other peoples comments. If I am on the fence, good support swings it for me.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:53:30 +0000

Thank you for noticing Andy, nobody likes to work for free. Makes it hard to earn a living…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:50:02 +0000

$211 sounds high? I’d like to know what your company offers for $211. You’re in email marketing, right? Could I get 20 different custom email marketing plans $211? I’d like to see 20 finished email marketing plans by 20 different Email Marketers and after you do your work, I’ll pick the one I like best and pay that person $211 and the other 19 will have worked for FREE, sounds good right?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:40:38 +0000

Yeah, this is a great idea if you like to work for free. Let’s put this scenario into other situations. You go out and eat every night of the week at a different restaurant, and the end of the week, you pick the restaurant you thought prepared the best meal and “reward” them by paying not their bill but what you want to pay while the other 4 are out their time and effort. Sounds great to me! Not so great for the others. How about you go see 4 or 5 movies, then choose the one you liked best and only pay for that one? A professional designer is a trained and seasoned professional who not only designs what the client wants after in depth conversations, but also walks the design through the printing process. The designers and client often build a relationship that lasts through several projects, not just one. In the example shown there were 658 entries, all but 37 were eliminated and if you look through those, a lot of them were utter crap (there are a lot of untrained amateurs opening the client up to possible plagiarism and copyright infringement). Maybe I should go to SXSW and see 20 bands and then only pay the cover charge for the one band I liked best, nevermind that they all worked hard. Mr. Mickiewicz has made millions off of the hard work of the many people he has asked to work for FREE. Free doesn’t feed our families nor pay our bills. Look at the “winner” of the example “contest”, he’s entered 50 “contests” meaning at least 50 designs (if it was one per project) and has only been paid for ONE! (for this design he was paid $500, but average over the 50 that he worked on, he only made $10 for his design) Say he spent 5 hours on each “contest” design, his payment would be $2 per hour. Even illegals make more than that. The World Series just ended, by 99 Designs thought, the SF Giants would be the only ball players who would be paid for the season (btw, the last time they won, or by 99 D’s thought, been paid was 1954) .Do you think all these guys would still play ball? 99 Designs should pay a fair wage to it’s workers, even $1 per design submitted would be better than nothing…

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By: Haavard Aurstad

Haavard Aurstad — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:12:13 +0000

Good interview Yaro. I’ve been using 99Designs to outsource some of my work for some time now and all I can say it’s been a pleasant experience. It’s like having a team of people ready to jump aboard if you’re calling for help. A great way to outsource design work. I highly recommend it.

By: Uzi Nutt

Uzi Nutt — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:59:26 +0000

He is such a genius to make $10,000 in school. I like his 99designs idea.

By: Dr. Skigh

Dr. Skigh — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:37:45 +0000

Another one very well done. I love how Matt started in high school making thousands during lunchtime while everyone else was goofing off and flirting. It’s a great example of someone who loves his work and really worked hard for success. 99Designs is a great concept of crowd sourcing, which is catching on a lot lately.

By: Virtual Hogwarts

Virtual Hogwarts — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:28:31 +0000

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By: Web Tasarım | John Alden

Web Tasarım | John Alden — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:00:05 +0000

Lovely interview Yaro. I’ve used 99designs for a long while (i still use it

Btw, I remember the times when domain names were THAT high priced

By: Credit Girl

Credit Girl — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:04:34 +0000

Yeah, that’s a great idea especially if you plan on expanding it further down the line. You must as well use your own hosting domain. Thanks for the info @Viral Marketing.

By: Murlu

Murlu — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:33:01 +0000

Matt is such an inspiration and so productive it’s scary. It’s crazy to imagine that he’s made so many websites that have become staples within the online community – definitely gonna give this one a listen.

By: Playdough Recipe

Playdough Recipe — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:35:02 +0000

Great interview, really interesting to hear a little more about flippa in particular. I’m a frequent user, so this gave me some great interesting background. Inspiring guy!

By: Jeff Bode

Jeff Bode — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:16:54 +0000

Great interview Matt is definitely someone to learn from, I really enjoy his sites.

By: Freelance forums

Freelance forums — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:19:53 +0000

I had a bad experience on 99designs, especially since I am not into “speculative” jobs, and the site is all about this. Of course, for people who cannot easily get a “real” gig this is a good place to show their skills and hope the client is smart enough to understand their value. There are people who are successfully using it, so, even if it’s not my cup of tea, the site is not bad at all.

I haven’t used flippa yet, had another bad experience with a similar site and for now I am cool. But, when I’d want to sell a site, that’s the place to use.

Sitepoint is one of the best webmaster forums out there. Even if, for the past years, it’s more than just a community, the quality of the content and people there is unrivaled. Excellent job on creating such an amazing place.

By: Krissoft Web Design

Krissoft Web Design — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:31:57 +0000

I love flippa.com, and site point. I have to check out the 99design soon, great story of a young Matt. Web design is very important in information age that we are in, should be great info, thanks for sharing.

By: Biz Gadgets Guy

Biz Gadgets Guy — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:29:46 +0000

Wow, I sure did not know, Matt has achieved a lot in young age! I am sure luck and hard work are part of it. Great job, impressive.

By: Valentine Belonwu

Valentine Belonwu — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:07:29 +0000

Amazing interview!. I will check out Sitepoint and Flippa to see what they have in there.

Yaro, thanks for sharing this and keep up the good work.

By: Sean - Australia SEO

Sean - Australia SEO — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:48:40 +0000

This is really helpful and inspiring to all kinds of Internet marketers! When we come across such things in life we can certainly have the chance to develop a new burst of energy from us. I really appreciate your work in sharing this interview!

By: Mediaman

Mediaman — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:00:21 +0000

I also enjoy these interviews you’ve been doing Yaro, I loved Matt’s interview since I’ve often followed his websites, I’ve am a big fan of his latest 99 Designs website.

By: used tires

used tires — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:33:02 +0000

It is well worth it, especially if you get a popular submission and get alot of choices to choose from, you’re almost guaranteed to have a hard time choosing which one to use!

Till then,

Jean

By: Andy Beveridge

Andy Beveridge — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:07:35 +0000

This looks like a cool idea. 99designs, I will check that out right now. Always looking for new designs. What I don’t get is you choose one design out of many, but the others that you reject they do not get paid right? That makes it a very competitive market. It kind of doesn’t seem fair really.

By: Branded social television

Branded social television — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:02:17 +0000

I have been using Flippa for a long time now and I use it to buy all of my websites

By: Email Marketing

Email Marketing — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:50:43 +0000

They do have a minimum of $211 that needs to be spent in order to receive a logo, it may seem high, but I’m pretty sure that the quality will be high as well.

By: Email Marketing

Email Marketing — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:47:50 +0000

I agree, this interview was well worth the read!

By: sell textbooks

sell textbooks — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:31:47 +0000

Thanks for the info. I do need a couple logos designed and was looking for a new company. I will have to check them out.