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vinrob92

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Corporate law grad, interested in entrepreneurship. Currently based in SG.

Working on https://www.manyrequests.com | Previously I grew ManyPixels to $50k/month.

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vinrob92··on Ask HN: Founders, how much time do you spend on your startup per week?
Running ManyPixels, mostly doing Sales/Management/Culture/Hiring -- I divide my time in 2-3 blocks of 2 hours per day on each and leave a lot of time on weekend to think about the bigger picture. This could be considered as work.

I use my calendar a lot and every morning I start with 2 hours of sales and it built me a habit, and I become more efficient at doing it.

I would say on average 40 hours per week.

vinrob92··on Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?
Create habits.
vinrob92··on How to stop lurking and create content?
I think you answered your question yourself: Create a habit. Just set 1 hour a day where you decide to write, comment (you already did it here with this post) and this will become easier to do it constantly. You just need to get started.
vinrob92··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)
HIRING | REMOTE | FRONT-END DEV

ManyPixels is an unlimited design service / managed design marketplace with freelancers all over the world.

We're hiring a remote freelance front-end developer to help us with our marketing site.

Email: robin@manypixels.co

https://www.manypixels.co

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
SEEKING FREELANCER / SEEKING WORK

ManyPixels is an unlimited design service for startups, and agencies.

We are looking for a front-end React developer (freelance) to help us create landing pages, work on the content of the marketing website, etc.

We are also looking for more clients! (preferably companies with recurring design needs)

https://www.manypixels.co

robin@manypixels.co

vinrob92··on Show HN: Editable, royalty-free SVG illustrations
Just updated our gallery with our license -> https://gallery.manypixels.co/license
vinrob92··on Ask HN: Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?
I run a Facebook group mostly on running productized services / productized consulting. Might be useful to you!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/192719694795609/

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (March 2019)
SEEKING WORK | Global | REMOTE

ManyPixels is the alternative to a freelancer, in-house employee, or agency. You pay a flat monthly fee per month and get unlimited design work (with a money back guarantee too!)

You can ask anything you want: Landing Pages, UI, Illustrations, Blog Posts Covers, Social Media Graphics, Logos and Branding, etc.

This usually works best for ongoing design needs. You integrate your as part of your team and put things on autopilot and never have to worry about design again - it's like having your own personal designer.

Happy to get on a call to demo you how it works + send you a strategy plan via email afterwards.

Email: robin@manypixels.co https://www.manypixels.co

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2019)
No we only do design.
vinrob92··on Ask HN: Did offering a money-back guarantee help your business?
I am running a fully remote, unlimited design agency[0] with about 25 freelancers and project managers in various timezones.

We offer a 14 days, 100% money back guarantee. We do have some bad actors but I think the fact that design is highly subjective, the money back guarantee really convinces customers to try us. Currently we have less than 3% refunds.

[0] https://www.manypixels.co

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2019)
SEEKING FREELANCER: REMOTE

Manypixels is an on-demand graphic design outsourcing platform. For a fixed monthly fee we do unlimited UI, logos, banners and illustrations. We work with designers and project managers fully remotely and pay them a hourly salary.

Looking for freelance designers and freelance project managers.

Company landing: manypixels.co Contact: robin@manypixels.co

vinrob92··on Ask HN: YC Interview tomorrow. Help us improve our interview notes
Here are the interview notes:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iyv_sxpmdFg8EZV7vuRb...

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
MANYPIXELS.co | Software Engineer | REMOTE or Jakarta, Indonesia | https://www.manypixels.co

Manypixels is a managed, on-demand marketplace for premium design services. With a team in Indonesia, we bridge the gap between design talents in developing countries and SME's in developed countries through innovation in technology.

- We started from scratch 12 months ago and recently hit $50,000 in MRR.

- We are building one of the most incredible platform to order design services.

- We are profitable.

We are a team of two developers (Cofounder/CTO + 1 other Software engineer) and 40+ design staff located in two offices in Indonesia (Jakarta and Yogyakarta).

If you'd like to work with us, send us the work you've done + your Github profile to robin@manypixels.co

Cheers.

vinrob92··on Share your startup – October 2018
* Manypixels

* https://www.manypixels.co

* Unlimited premium design services for a fixed monthly fee

* Launched, $40k MRR

* Launch a new client dashboard

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
Thanks for the feedbacks! We are rolling out a v3 soon and will incorporate all of this!

Finally - feel free to dm on Twitter (@Vinrob) I'll happily give you my WhatsApp + email in case you need me to pick up the ball for your projects :)

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
Fixing this! In the meantime go via https://manypixels.co
vinrob92··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
https://www.manypixels.co

I started Manypixels as a side project while being a digital nomad in Bangkok.

After a few weeks it grew to $5000/month then $10,000 month and we're now at $40,000/month after 8 months.

Wrote about that story from the early beginning here: https://www.indiehackers.com/@Vinrob/bootstrapping-a-product...

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2018)
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SEEKING WORK - Remote

Unlimited UI/UX design marketplace (our designers are based in Indonesia and we pay then a high salary!)

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6 months ago I posted on HN I was starting a productized service: Unlimited design services for a fixed monthly fee.

We have close to 150+ subscribers and provide absolutely kick ass UI work.

We recently also started animated illustrations and we currently have a 2-for-1 offer (2 months for the price of one)

My email: robin@manypixels.co

Related links:

* Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/manypixels

* Website: https://www.manypixels.co

vinrob92··on Ask HN: How do you validate a business idea?
Start with value.

Before thinking about validating your idea / researching your market etc ask yourself "What value am I providing to the world / to the market?". Value is fundamental to your business because you, as an entrepreneur, get paid for putting that value into the hands of your users / customers.

Your role as an entrepreneur is to shift resources from a lower area of productivity to a higher area of productivity (example: Instead of 100g selling coffee beans for $1, you buy a cup and a coffee machine and sell a cup of coffee for $5, you successfully created value). You get paid for creating value, and you get paid for identifying market needs and delivering that value to the customers.

When something goes wrong with your business, always think about value: "Am I delivering value to users"

Next step, about validating, I would also advocate for a MVP (or in the case of a product a MVO: Minimum Viable Offer). The role of a MVP is to seek the shortest path to deliver value to customers. In other words, it is to validate your assumptions so that you can justify the time / financial commitments to build an actual or better product. The MVP is not about your product, it's about validating your value proposition.

vinrob92··on [dead]
Start with your users.

Talk to your most loyal users and try to identify their needs and the value they are getting from your SaaS. Why do they use your service? What is their single biggest frustration / the single biggest value they get from your service? Can you find similar customers? How can you reach more of the users you want?

Once you really nail the value proposition you have and map out clearly who your customers are and why they love your service it is easier to know where you're going for marketing and growing your business.

vinrob92··on Tell HN: Help me get to 100K MRR and be rewarded for it
Thanks, will also reply on Sunday!
vinrob92··on Tell HN: Help me get to 100K MRR and be rewarded for it
Thanks! Getting back to you on Sun!
vinrob92··on Tell HN: Help me get to 100K MRR and be rewarded for it
Hey Sven! Yes, totally. My plan is actually not to deal with the customers projects myself and not to tell my staff that this customer is not "real" :)

Good ideas for the rest, will experiment with that.

vinrob92··on Tell HN: Help me get to 100K MRR and be rewarded for it
I understand your point of view. I think hiring entrepreneurs with real design needs (and experience) can help us in two ways:

1. We will have to work on real projects and treat them as "real customers" which will give us customer insights on what we should improve.

2. Targeting communities of entrepreneurs such as IH/HN will allow us to pick skills in a pool of people "who have done it before" or who might anticipate problems we might have and suggest actionable solutions.

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Successful examples of Productized Services?
I run https://www.manypixels.co -- It is an unlimited design service for startups. We also have a 10 days, 100% money back guarantee and can always add extra days if there are delays.

Here is a 25% forever discount code for HN (only 10 available): K4NT496

vinrob92··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
$50k/month with my current business: Manypixels (https://www.manypixels.co) I do work with many freelancers though.
vinrob92··on Ask HN: What has HN given you?
We posted our product, Manypixels (https://www.manypixels.co) there last week (I wrote an article on how we scaled it to $15k in MRR). The article got on the first page of HN and got us about 50 new subscribers ($10k in revenue)
vinrob92··on [dead]
OP here. How can I edit this?
vinrob92··on Lessons from starting a design-as-a-service startup
Feel free to try, we have a 10 days, 100% money back guarantee anyway!
vinrob92··on Lessons from starting a design-as-a-service startup
We do not spend any money on advertising. We only do direct sales and content marketing.

We had our first 10 subscribers with direct sales.

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