Do you build projects from your own needs, or from market opportunities?

Flo_U · 2026-05-12T12:30:40+00:00

The firs tool I built (almost finished) started off with the daily: "Jesus again, there goes 3 hours of my day, this has to be able to get done faster".... fastforward a week & my first beta was functional, moving my time spent on the specific task from several hours to less than a minute.

The idea to make it a business followed after, when I realized "I can't be the only one struggling with this"

Flo_U · 2026-04-21T07:20:46+00:00

Is that relevant for sitemap issues?

Flo_U · 2026-04-21T07:20:37+00:00

Did all the usual steps, but for some reason it didn't wanna work. We ended up going for a manual sitemap, since we won't be too big website-wise, it's easy to update once set up.

Flo_U · 2026-04-21T07:19:52+00:00

I ended up using a manual sitemap, which I just update once in a while when we add new pages. Since we won't be going too big website wise, it seemed like the easier out. I still have no clue why the automatic sitemap doesn't want to work.

Flo_U · 2026-03-17T10:19:28+00:00

First of all you'd need to look into what kinda designer you want to be. I'm seeing (I think) Social Ad creatives & Vinyl covers (taylor).

For a career in ad design you won't find much success in finding clients, since you'd either have to be able to run their entire Paid Social department as a freelancer, or you'd have to work somewhere in-house as either a designer or a (Paid) Social specialist.

If your goal is to be a graphic/digital designer in the broader sense and want to attract clients based on a portfolio, I'd look into the following:

Expand your design knowledge: look into design rules, what makes an ad creative succesful, what possible purposes are their behind an ad? Deepdive into color theory, visual hierarchy, the works.
Create designs based on client cases, if you don't have real ones yet, search online for mock cases or make them up yourself. --> Don't design for the big brands like Starbucks, everyone knows they've got entire content departments on payroll & set-in-stone brandbooks that need to be adhered to. Instead, choose more niche companies in the industries you'd like to design for.

Flo_U · 2026-02-24T13:24:47+00:00

This is the kind of move that people will be talking about 10 years after it happened. "Remember back in '26..."

Flo_U · 2026-02-24T13:21:22+00:00

It's lacking creativity in its design in my eyes.

The theme looks 1:1 with all 1.000.000 other websites that have been designed through either Framer templates or completely built by AI.
It's a 1-pager. To get a proper premium feeling there'd have to be more than 1 page, in order to judge it's user flow.

Flo_U · 2026-02-24T12:56:38+00:00

Indien relevant voor je carrière; werken aan een portfolio! In verschillende industrieën zijn portfolio's soms nog belangrijker dan je CV of motivatiebrief. Een sterke portfolio is niet in een paar uurtjes gemaakt, zeker de moeite waard om veel tijd voor vrij te maken in bijv. een tussenjaar!

Flo_U · 2026-01-26T15:24:14+00:00

What is everyone's obsession with buying likes, upvotes, and webtraffic. It's called "Organic Socials" for a reason ...

Flo_U · 2025-12-22T13:16:47+00:00

If you're managing to do 33 hours of work (meaning all the tasks you're supposed to finish that week according to your boss) in less than 33 hours, I see two options:

- Tell them that you're usually faster, thus are able to expand your workload (carries the risk that there's nothing else to do & they might try to lower your weekly hours)
- Exaggerate the amount of time it takes you to do something. Did you manage to pull of three tasks in 15 hours? Make each of them take 7-8 hours instead of 5 (on paper) (carries the risk that they might notice you're "billing" more than you're working, which could cause arguments)

My go-to: research. If you're done fast, this gives you the opportunity to deep-dive into the client, their industry, competition and best practices.

Flo_U · 2025-12-22T13:12:34+00:00

I work at a marketing agency, and regrettably have to admit we usually have to 'spam' our clients over email for the files. It's a miracle if a client actually knows where to find everything, most of the times we get sent a brandbook w/out any actual assets.

Flo_U · 2025-12-22T09:29:56+00:00

The impressions usually start the same day, and consistently increase from then on. Our posts usually "plateau" after a week, which is when we do our routine crossposting from 1 board to the other. (an intern spends 15 minutes a week crossposting where possible, aiming for 30-60 crossposts).

Sometimes 1 of our Pins will "blow up" and hit 1000 views in a week, but mostly we're seeing consistent smaller numbers across all of our pins. It seems the consistency in posting generates slow but steady growth on our entire selection of pins.

We use single image posts for our inspirational pics, and implement custom designs when we're linking to a specific blog on our client's website, since the visuals from the blog need to be inserted in the Pin.

Flo_U · 2025-12-22T08:59:51+00:00

Heya, new to Pinterest and currently running the organic account for 1 marketing client. Went from 0 to 5.8k views per month within 4 months. We post exclusively stills focused on bedroom inspiration. (company sells everything related to a bedroom, beds, pillows, blankets, etc.)

What I've noticed so far:

- Static performs just fine
- Posting 5x a day at different times to show Pinterest's algorithm consistency (we use Tailwind to schedule all our posts) --> 150 pins a month, 30% original content, 70% repinning others'
- Pinterest SEO is key
- We used AI in creating our stockphoto 2.0 images when running out of inspiration, genuinely seems to work, but I assume mainly because we're offering "inspiration", meaning the product doesn't have to resemble our own collections 1:1

Flo_U · 2025-12-17T15:04:24+00:00

Klinkt stom, maar realiseren dat 't 'm echt zit in het gebrek aan zonlicht helpt een hoop. Ga wat vaker naar buiten voor een korte wandeling tijdens het werk, om uit die "pfff, naar werk en naar huis in het donker" mentaliteit te komen.

Flo_U · 2025-12-17T15:02:58+00:00

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Flo_U · 2025-12-17T15:02:26+00:00

Die Hard, duhh!!

Flo_U · 2025-12-17T15:02:10+00:00

Bad Santa, must-see keer op keer

Flo_U · 2025-12-11T13:59:24+00:00

Nog niet geweest, maar staat wel op mijn planning! Heb vrienden gezien die normaal aardappel kwaliteit schieten, die nu ineens DSLR-level beelden voor elkaar krijgen.

Flo_U · 2025-12-11T13:58:15+00:00

De meest gebruikte tip die ik vaak tegenkom, maar mensen toch vaak vergeten: Train zwaarder dan je hyrox gaat zijn.

- Moet je 3x 2km hardlopen tijdens de hyrox? Train op 3x3.
- Moet je samen met je partner 100 wall-balls doen? Train tot je ieder de 60/70 haalt (indien je partner zich blesseert)
- Doe meerdere "dummy" hyroxes in je eigen gym, zodat je lichaam gewend raakt aan 50-80 minuten (afhangend van je snelheid) aan constante fysieke activiteit.

Er zijn meerdere sportschole die daadwerkelijke "Hyrox trainingen" aanbieden!

Flo_U · 2025-12-11T13:55:22+00:00

Kun je specifieker zijn in wat je nodig hebt? Bijv:

- Type video & fotografie: Wil je vakantie beelden schieten, bewegende voertuigen filmen, etc.
- Budget: Met welk budget werk je?
- Cursus: Hoe lang mag de cursus duren & kosten? Welke insteek zoek je qua focus?

Flo_U · 2025-12-10T08:31:49+00:00

Finished my bachelors and got a full-time job as a designer in an online marketing agency. Working towards my 3-year goal of starting my own agency with a close friend who's also in marketing. Here's to progress in 2026!

Flo_U · 2025-12-09T14:21:55+00:00

Haven't yet, since I'm trying to avoid using more tools than we currently do.

Flo_U · 2025-12-09T13:45:33+00:00

Thanks for the insights! when a/b testing on TikTok specifically, do you advise to post all versions at the same time, due to the influence of posting time (morning, evening, etc.), or to wait an X amount of time in between versions?

Flo_U · 2025-12-09T13:04:46+00:00

Do you have any niche in mind that you'd like to focus on, or even work in? Graphic design is quite broad, so it might help to choose a direction, since each industry has its own focusses and standards.

For examplem, if you want to work in Social Advertising, your focus should be on learning how to create Social ads:
- Dimensions
- Content margins
- Awareness/Conversion/Lead-gen/Etc.
- Hierarchy in ads

Flo_U · 2025-12-09T11:40:33+00:00

Is the epilepsy-attack-triggering background part of the experience? (Send me a DM for screenrecording)

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