I quit my job 8 months ago 😶🌫️
I’ve done it before to build a business, but it was scarier this time.
This time, I was getting married 💍
Here’s my journey over the last few months:
📆 June/July 2023
I told myself I’ll go back to building an agency and doing freelance. But
@KumailNanji
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Designers, I have something for you 👀
I'm giving away my starter Figma Design System that I use at the start of every project for free 💯
Comment "Figma" and I'll DM you the link 🤙
You'll get:
→ Colors
→ Typography
→ Grids
→ Pages
→ Quick guide on how I use them
Roasted 🔥
@hshu
@grannan
Your product is crazy cool 🤯
→ Used rounded corners to match the waveforms
→ Interactive player to listen to the the AI voices
→ Improved color and hierarchy
Before → After
After 2 months, I finally secured my first client yesterday 🎉
Jan 22 was also the day I proposed to my wife two years ago, maybe it's a lucky day 👀
I'm all in for 2024 🚀
@arcinternet
→ Completely replaces Chrome. Haven't touched that thing in months. Workspaces is my fav feature because you don't have to have a bunch of different windows open
@screenstudio
→ Amazing screen recordings with mouse tracking and beautiful zooming. Plus keyboard
Today marks 3 months I started on 𝕏
Here’s what I’ve accomplished:
💰 3 Clients
📈 $6,350 MRR
🌎 2.5k+ Page views
🤝 750+ followers
👀 500k+ Impressions
Here’s some growth tips I’ve learnt so far:
🔮 Know the algorithm
These are some random things I’ve seen and learnt over
My new site is live 🚀
Decided to ship quick and tweak it as I go
Check out the site below and let me know your thoughts 👇
(P.s let me know if you find any bugs I can squash)
New site WIP 🚧
Can’t decide between light or dark, so both it is
Still need to redesign the other sections, but I wonder which one would convert better 🤔
One of my favourite sites I've designed to this day 🤯
Loving that dual-axis scroll on the services section 🤩
Shoutout to all the amazing developers who brought this vision to life
If you told me I’d hit my $10k goal in less than 5 months, I wouldn’t believe you 🤯
I knew I could do it, I just didn’t think it would happen this soon!
This post is not to brag but to inspire others
If you truly put your mind to it, you can achieve anything 💯
24 was the best yet most stressful year of my life
Today I turn 25 🥳
Here’s my what I did from 24-25
→ Quit my 9-5
→ Got married
→ Travelled to 8+ countries
→ Tried freelancing and failed
→ Made countless cold calls
→ Got a mentoring gig at a college
→ Starting posting
I just hit 1000 Followers 🥳
My goal was to hit 1k by April 1st, but these past few weeks have been insane 🤯
I decided to take a screenshot everyday this year to track my progress
Here's my journey:
0 → Nov 1, 2023
100 → Nov 26, 2023
200 → Jan 4, 2024
300 → Jan 14, 2024
Next week, I finally break free of $0 MRR ⛓️
💸 2 confirmed clients
🤞 2 potential clients
Crazy to think that these leads came from the design roasts and the $79 startup package
Time to plan my escape 💪
Roasted 🔥
@hshu
@grannan
Your product is crazy cool 🤯
→ Used rounded corners to match the waveforms
→ Interactive player to listen to the the AI voices
→ Improved color and hierarchy
Before → After
Day 86
⭐️ MRR: $6,350
⭐️ Nº of clients: 3 (3 potentials)
⭐️ Scheduled calls: 1
⭐️ Followers: 700
⭐️ Overall Page visits: 2,237
Super grateful for all this growth in the past 3 weeks. Showing up every single day really pays off 💪🚀
Day 60
⭐️ MRR: $0
⭐️ Nº of clients: 0 (2 potentials)
⭐️ Scheduled calls: 2
⭐️ Followers: 214
⭐️ Overall Page visits: 503
Been a while since I've done this but I just crossed 500 page views. Yesterday was almost as high as the launch day 🚀
From $79 → $4,400 🚀
Here's how my $79 offer brought me 2 clients
Back in December, I decided to launch a startup package for solopreneurs.
I had been roasting for some time before that and thought about charging something small for an entire landing page re-design.
So I
Design roast for
@jainilnf
🔥
→ Show an interactive demo of your product
→ Skim down to basic features and templates
→ Export button prompts user to sign up to download
Before → After
I didn’t believe in this when I first started 🤯
I was always against free work.
But after seeing Nick’s success with it, I knew I had to give it a shot.
And to my surprise, my second client is the client that I roasted 👀
Here’s my story and some learnings ↓ (4 min read)
Roasts work! 🔥
Free Roast ➔ $6,317
Roasting designs for free has been our way of reaching a wider audience and capturing leads since February last year. We went from closing $75 design work to $6,317 over the last 1 year!
Free work isn't always bad, show the "value" you can
Second week of active client work for Creatifly🔥
Here's what I've done:
→ Webflow Site Development
→ 3 Landing Page Designs
→ Analytics Platform Design
Can't wait to start some more exciting things next week 🚀💪
One of my recent posts converted to a subscription within 30 minutes 🤯
Always put your links in your replies, you never know who's watching 💥
Felt like
@MrNick_Buzz
closing right after the call 😅
Safesight, my release of 2024 🎉.
Safesight is a rebranding from my web analytics tool previously called Maple.
The rebranding includes an even better free plan, a new landing page designed by the amazing
@KumailNanji
, and lots of new features.
New site WIP 🚧
Can’t decide between light or dark, so both it is
Still need to redesign the other sections, but I wonder which one would convert better 🤔
I’ve decided to increase my package pricing 💥
Book a call by Feb 29 to lock in at the current rate 🔒
The
#buildinpublic
community has been nothing but supportive since the start of my journey here on 𝕏. And I’ll forever be grateful for this growth 🫶
In order to continue
My 10 y/o sister just asked me to make her a logo for her school fair
And then she asked me to use Comic Sans for the tagline...
I never thought this day would come 😅
Cookin up something different 👀
This project is for a motion graphics productized service, and I wanted to try something unique
Let's hope I can optimize this for mobile too 🤞😅
This week, I shipped this Webflow site for
@jpa_armbruster
It was integrated with MemberStack, and I’ve never used that before
But the motto is say yes and figure it out 💯
Guess I just learned something new 😅
Project
#5
Complete 🔥
This project was super fun – a darker vibe, new gradient and a fresh logo.
Here's a before/after breakdown for all the sections ↓
Looks like we're building this 🤩
✅ Design done
⌛ Name
⌛ Dev (pending by the legend
@Makisuo__
)
We're trying to ship < 1 week 🚀
Join the waitlist if you haven't already ↓
Day 60
⭐️ MRR: $0
⭐️ Nº of clients: 0 (2 potentials)
⭐️ Scheduled calls: 2
⭐️ Followers: 214
⭐️ Overall Page visits: 503
Been a while since I've done this but I just crossed 500 page views. Yesterday was almost as high as the launch day 🚀
Do you hate when your videos turn out blurry on 𝕏? 🫠
Try this next time you record w/
@screenstudio
→ Unplug your monitor & record on your laptop (IMPORTANT)
→ Export 4K, 60fps, social media
→ Choose 720p on 𝕏
This has been working for me to upload some crisp videos 🤙
Today I taught my students about auto layout
Then we developed it using tailwind
I don’t know if they were more amazed at my design skills or tailwind 😅
My first YouTube video is LIVE 🥳
Shot in LOG on my iPhone 15 🤙
4 hours for research/notes
2 hours for lighting
3 hours of setup and record
6 hours of editing
Really grateful for everyones love and support 🫶
Check it out →
I’m a college dropout 😅
Woah, I’ve never publicly said that
It’s not something to brag about, but where I’ve come so far has made me super proud 🫶
Here’s a little journey through my college years ↓ (3 mins read)
Back in high school when I had to submit my college
I just secured a client 🚀
One of the soloprenuers who signed up for the $79 offer wants the full package
Can’t wait to kick ass for him 💪
What a crazy start to the year
Decided to start a new series called Design Press where I talk design and make some espresso
It's a journey for me to talk about what I love while also improving my communication skills 💯
It's not perfect but sometimes you gotta stop overthinking and take the first step
I just solved my biggest problem on 𝕏
Visualizing my tweets before posting so I know where the "Show more" comes in
Early access launching soon 💥
Join the waitlist below ↓
@ashugeo
This looks sick! You animated this so smoothly, it looks like an apple ad 😂
Can you do a version where it pushes the elements to the side when the box gets bigger, and has the similar jiggle effect 👀
Worried about getting clients?
Deliver great work and let it do the talking 💯
Nothing beats that feeling of your past client referring you
Word of mouth ftw 🔥
Super excited to announce VisualX built with
@Makisuo__
Signup for early access and an exclusive offer 🚀
(P.s the tweet on the site is not real – it’s our tweet visualizer 👀 Click the like and retweet button on the site to show your support 🫶)
I offer 40+ services for creatifly 🚀
A lot of people have asked me how
To put it simply – these are all the skills I've learnt over time and thought of merging them into one offering
I'm always learning so I can better myself and add new services
Next up: 3D Design 💪