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blog.99designs.com
Company blog · blog.99designs.com/blogdesignbusiness
blog.99designs.com is the company blog at blog.99designs.com, writing about design and business. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a debate about 99designs design contests as a source for the claim that top contest designers are in lower cost-of-living countries, citing the blog's top-designers tag page.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I think you might be missing the core of my point. They ARE big gains for some people... Just not professional designers in Western countries. Globalization at work. Check out the top designers in the system ( http://blog.99designs.com/tag/top-designers/ ). Note the nationalities and the cost-of-living in those countries. These guys aren't entering hundreds of these contests out of desperation-- they are making a gr…
Comment linking /tag/top-designers/
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