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Seems kind of neat, but I wonder who the target audience is?

Has to be a company that has enough ongoing design work that it justifies the price, but not so much that they could just bring it in house. Is that a large segment? I have no idea.

On a similar tack, I recently started using a company that has a monthly cost ($250) for 4k words worth of blog posts, which I use to write blog articles for several side projects. I've been happy to outsource this chore, so perhaps a market does exist for Draftss as well. Best of luck.

Mostly founders look for consistent design requirements for their startups.

Apart from founders, other design agencies white-label our services and forward them to their clients.

Thanks - both make sense. Your services listing shows a range for time each takes (which of course makes sense). It'd be great if, on the portfolio page, you listed how long each took, to get a better sense of which ones were "easy" and which "hard".
> On a similar tack, I recently started using a company that has a monthly cost ($250) for 4k words worth of blog posts

What the hell? That seems outrageous for a blog. What am I missing?

Outrageous!? I thought it was cheap.

Where do you find your copywriters, if that's expensive?

I guess I didn't realize it was copywriting and not just "writing blog posts for side projects".
That’s a perfectly acceptable price. A bit low actually.
That's about $0.06 per word, which is quite low for copywriting, especially tech copywriting.

My base rate for that type of work was $0.25 per word at minimum.

Can you share the name of that company?
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My understanding is that the market for most landing page sites (which is what Draftss is targeting here) is not tech founders or companies like what most HN folks are doing, but things like people putting on lots of webinars, real estate folks, small mom and pop places that are moving around as "pop up shops", etc.
how many times should you put your project as a SHOW HN post?
We are launching all our products under the Draftss brand.
I was interested. But couldn't get their company details and no Privacy Policy, not via their chat either.

They just repeated "Draftss" as company name, but I can't find any such company.

Your site constantly "jumps" up and down on mobile safari due to the animated text typing and deleting. Not very good for reading.
Thanks for sharing. I shall have it fixed.
Another subscription service. Why?

Are you hoping that some people will forget that they signed up and then keep paying you for years?

The work samples on their portfolio look pretty bad but I actually think this is a great idea.

Many businesses have ongoing design or development needs but not enough revenue to sustain adding a full time hire. This would be perfect for them.

In fact, the retainer model has been popular with agencies for decades. It allows the client to get work whenever needed without having to brief, scope, contract, and bid out a new team each time. On the agency side, it allows them the reliable revenue to retain the talented employees that the client hired the agency for in the first place.

It's a win win.

Definitely not something that can be subscribed and not used.

It's more like an all you can eat buffet in a month's time eliminates the lengthy decision time taken on customer's end.

I think the website seems pretty good. Although, I don't find any codes in your portfolio.
We have not uploaded the codes yet. If you would like to see some of our projects, I shall send it to you via email.
I nearly signed up until I saw the portfolio page :(
I'm not sure what you've been looking for, but would definitely help you resolve over the email. Connect with me on jd@draftss.com

Also, we have a 100% money back guarantee if you do not like the designs we create for you.

Your home page, pricing info and FAQ are littered with grammatical and word choice errors. I understand that this is probably frustrating for you if English is not your first or native language. But I also need to have confidence that a design company are going to pay attention to that sort of thing, taking steps to overcome their own language deficiencies. Can't comment on the quality of your design work as I'm visually impaired.