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Doing everything yourself isn’t always saving you money.
If a task takes you three hours because you’re constantly figuring it out, fixing mistakes or starting from scratch, it might be costing you more than you think.
Sometimes the best investment is simply finding a better way to do it.
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1/ A $150 logo. Lesson price: $150 and three weeks. You bought a signature for a letter nobody wrote.
I u se 5% AI and 95% my own creativity in this whole design
I use AI for:
- checking if the copywriting solves the problem for the site's target audience
- generating text styles
- checking if there are any colour or typography issues
all the other stuff was my part:
- create the copywriting
- create the structure of the site
- designing visuals to match the copywriting
my point is: don't let AI do all the work
let it do all the boring stuff and do the fun stuff yourself
PS: I am open for projects: alikashif.co
We built a website on a 3-second rule — and it forced me to unlearn everything I knew about web design.
For WILDROW, a cottage-garden studio, we designed a one-page experience around one brutal constraint:
The lesson has to be clear before the thumb scrolls on. Nothing more.
That changed every decision we made:
No jargon. If a clip doesn't read in a single pass, we cut it again.
No soundtrack. A lesson that needs music becomes weak in a muted world.
The loop restarts on purpose. Every pass is a fresh planting — motion that never stops reads like a live border.
So the whole site is built in "threes": 3-second lessons · 3 field moves (sow, tend, cut) · 5 steps for a season · 1 form to start your own garden.
Dark, editorial, chaptered like a field notebook — sticky nav, a stats strip, silent wide loops, and a full-width replay mode.
We've all heard "short is better." But how short is too short?
Is 3 seconds the future of learning everything — or just the future of being ignored?
