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Dian built a playable typing game in Figma for Config Makeathon.
572K people saw it.
Jan prototyped an entire UI flow with Claude Opus in one session - 6.2K views, 125 shares.
I've been watching this feed all week and honestly? The level of craft here is kind of overwhelming.
But here's the thing that keeps sitting in the back of my mind —
The challenge ends. The views slow down. The feed moves on.
And six months later, when someone opens ChatGPT and types "who builds great interactive UI experiences?" or "best Figma prototypers on Contra?" —
Will these names come up?
I don't ask this to be the guy who rains on a good week. I genuinely don't know the answer. So I ran the test yesterday.
I asked Perplexity: "Who are some of the best no-code and Figma designers available for hire?"
The response named three people. None of them had posts with 500K+ views. None of them had challenge submissions.
They just had landing pages that answered the question clearly.
That's the entire gap I'm building RankAsAnswer to fix -not for the feed, but for the quiet moment after the feed moves on, when the right client is searching and the AI decides who gets recommended.
Your work deserves to live longer than the algorithm's attention span.
That's all. Back to watching the Config Makeathon feeds. 🙂
What are you building for it? Genuinely curious. 👇
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How I made it:
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- Wrote the script before touching any visuals
- Storyboarded every shot
- Generated the footage with AI (Kling, Higgsfield, Runway)
- Composited and added motion in After Effects
- Sound design and final cut
The tools were the easy part. The script did the work.
Full case study on my profile.
Some designers are waiting for flashy visuals to shine in their portfolio, but keep forgetting that the process is far more important.
Recently, I had a good opportunity
To focus on what matters for a client
The process.
The thing they can't find even with AI.
What AI can’t give a founder ↓
↳ Context: it hasn’t heard their last three customer calls
↳ A decision trail: why this positioning, and who signed off
↳ Consistency: the deck, the site and the outbound each get a different prompt, so each tells a different story
↳ One final version: nobody is sure which file is the real one
Most AI-built brands don’t fail on speed or creativity.
They fail on the structure around the output.
So I built that structure before the project starts.
Every client gets a private portal on day one ↓
→ A Loom walkthrough from me
→ About 20 onboarding questions on their business and customers
→ A brief drafted from their answers: AI drafts, they approve, then it locks
→ One page per phase, with its own comments
→ 3 revision rounds on the logo and the landing page
→ Start and end dates they can see
The point?
Visuals get you noticed.
Process gets you hired.
What does your portfolio show: the final visuals, or how you got there?
