Shaheer MalikAnswer
Designer and developer. I design and build these projects myself.
If you have one clear job (a site, an app, a rebrand), a fixed-price project is cheaper and easier to manage. If you have a steady stream of requests every week, a monthly partner is better value: mine is $2,500 a month for unlimited requests handled one at a time, about 2 to 3 days each, paused or cancelled any month.
When a fixed project is right
The job has a clear end, you can describe it in a page, and nothing else is queued behind it. You pay once, agree the scope in writing and own everything at handover.
When a monthly partner is right
- New landing pages or campaign pages every month
- An agency with client sites to build
- A product team that needs design and front-end work alongside its engineers
- A site that needs steady updates rather than one rebuild
How to test it
Start with one fixed project. If it goes well and you find yourself with a list of next things, switch to the monthly plan. You can pause it in a quiet month.
- Landing page
- $700 in 5 days
- Website
- $1,999 in 14 days
- Monthly partner
- $2,500 a month, pause anytime
When this is not the right fit
If you need several people working in parallel on the same day, you need a team or an agency, not a single partner.
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