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Hey Freelancers of Contra I want to talk with you and share experiences, looking forward to see some of your answers to the following questions (Hit me with a DM if you want).
Q1: What's the one thing your proposal never skips when pitching on Contra?
Q2: What's the one signal in a profile or portfolio that made a client trust you enough to hire, before you even talked?
Q3: What's one thing you used to do in your proposals that you stopped doing because it wasn't working?
Let's help all the community with our experience!
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Welcome to the Contra Jay! Wish you the best.
Congratulations on the milestone! One thing that stood out to me is your point about completed projects becoming a different kind of proof. It's a great reminder that consistency, delivering quality work, and earning trust matter just as much as having a polished portfolio.
9 years of design. First Contra Labs project. Here's what happened.
A week ago I got accepted into Contra Labs as a Brand Designer. This week I completed my first paid project through it.
What's changed since my last post:
Discovery score is now 122, top 5% of creatives...
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A custom web space for a Hollywood celebrity photographer.
Some projects light a fire under you.
I designed a portfolio site for Sasha Samsonova — an incredibly talented Hollywood photographer based in LA who shoots top-tier celebrities (and fun fact: she’s a fellow Ukrainian! 🇺🇦).
My main goal was to break away from generic, cookie-cutter templates. I wanted a space that feels like a natural extension of her iconic style, not something that fights for attention. Inspired by her work, I went with a raw, sleek palette of deep blacks and grays, paired with sharp, precise geometry.
[ 𝙈𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 ]
The workflow was super fast and intense:
💎 Figma Sketches — Quick wireframing and layout exploration
💎 Curating Visuals — Selecting the strongest shots to set the mood
💎 Building in Squarespace — Bringing the layout to life directly on the grid
[ 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙚 ]
Honestly? The simplicity and clarity of the platform.
This was my very first time using Squarespace, and I had less than 24 hours to pull it off. It felt like a total wild-card challenge: Can I actually build a solid, functional site with a brand-new tool in just one day?
And guess what? I think I actually did it! 🎉
Sure, there’s still plenty to refine — more pages to add, smooth animations, extra custom sections — but I’m genuinely proud of this first draft. Huge credit to Squarespace for being so surprisingly intuitive once you get into the flow.
[ 𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨 ]
Building under pressure means getting creative on the fly:
⭐️ Aligning Uneven Text — I needed to baseline-align words with totally different font heights. After testing a bunch of workarounds, I ended up solving it cleanly with custom CSS.
⭐️ Thicker Custom Lines — I needed an extra-bold divider line, so I turned a simple rectangle block into a divider and tweaked its scale. Worked like a charm! (Pro tip if you ever run into this!)
[ 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙪𝙩𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 ]
🔗 Project link: https://tiger-hexaflexagon-tzen.squarespace.com/config/
Password: love
Built entirely in Squarespace in 24 hours.
If I could learn a new platform and launch a project in a single day — you definitely can too!
Huge thanks for the opportunity to bring this idea to life 🖤
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