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http://maxsavin.com
If you're going to hire one guy to start, check their portfolio to see that have build apps from scratch, and evaluate the quality. Many can't ship.
The color schemes are generated by GPT4, which does a surprisingly good job at putting together good looking combinations.
The schemes are then sent out to our X account, which has about 150k people interact with the schemes.
These schemes are then ranked by engagement. A lot of people ask if feeding in the top schemes into GPT4 improves the output, but surprisingly, it does not. At some point, I will probably look to build in some kind ML scheme generator to optimize for hits.
The best one raked in 2m views: https://twitter.com/colorschemer/status/1697855177016160431
really easy to update apps too
The locality of the customer matters a lot. Usually, I will factor what it would cost for them to hire a full-time engineer (not just salary, but also overhead). A $120k salary will cost the company $200k, or $90 per hour. Then I'll add a % on top since I'm not getting days off, paid vacation, long-term security, etc.
That kind of reasoning helps with stingy customers. Otherwise, I just give a flat rate to solve their problem.
For customers that need me long term, I also ask for a monthly retainer to keep availability for them, for meetings, emergency bug fixes, etc. Otherwise, you're giving them the perks of an employee without them properly compensating you.
Cloud palettes are probably coming. As for Linux, would be a tough call since most designers are on Mac and Windows.
I am going to outline it on the next website.. for now, it's present in the Upgrade tab on Paletter Lite
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh
I'd say most people struggle with the taste part, and that's what Paletter helps with. The logical side of things can be learned quickly.
I have it inside Paletter Lite app.. have a screenshot for you here: https://imgur.com/a/CJvf0fh
It also helps piggyback on the App Store for discovery.
Happy to answer any and all of your questions!
Haha... that's quite the spin.
As someone who has spent a lot of time on web and Apple.. this article reads a bit like a conspiracy theory. Apple has allowed a lot of web features on to their platforms and App Store's, like hot code push, PWA, etc.
- with Meteor, I have all my services (front end, back-end, etc) in one place, running on one dyno, with automatic deploy via GitHub
- my Meteor set up has stylus, minification, etc, configured
- I have libraries for routing, state management, and etc handily available
Ultimately, it's a choice based on personal productivity and convenience. The whole project took me a couple of days, whereas with the JS ecosystem, I'd probably have to spend that time configuring tools.