Giving Away Value

Giving away value to people is a strange feeling. I spent my career learning and growing my product design expertise and now that I'm starting a Design-as-a-Service style agency, not getting paid for the same value add I used to was a tough pill to swallow!

So when I put a post out on Reddit, offering free Product Design advice for SaaS founders, I was worried at the volume of requests and making my services look cheap.

One of those worries ended up being true, and the other was completely idiotic. Guess which is which. Haha.

Initially the post started out slow, but after I recorded a few looms and shared them back with the founders in the comments... it picked up some serious steam. At least for a single person trying to do this on the side.

I ended up recording 11 videos (so far).

Here's one for example (for a product I thought was really cool): https://www.loom.com/share/a61b0653732b4f498f07854fa8cbaefd

So far, I got one lead from it, but got to experience some really cool, very early stage, products that I'm excited to watch grow.

I did not think I would get so much satisfaction out of giving value away for free. And it really helped with my own confidence that I can provide great value for clients.

-- The Sales Pitch --
I'm a solo-founder and freelance that just launched Productized Product Design services @ https://383studio.com

Basically, you sign up for a monthly subscription cost, you get unlimited designs, unlimited revisions, and access to any and all files for your product.

We do UX Research, Product Strategy, and Product Design - so anything you'd hire a FTE designer for, without dealing with all of the hiring.