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Hello and welcome to episode 104 of Webflail.

I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Manuel Ogomigo.

He’s an impressive dude

5 months ago, he quit his stable UX job to dive into the wild world of freelancing and building products in public.

After 4 years, he quit.

And he launched Flowdrive.

In his own words, crickets.

But now, things are moving.

Did you know he has built 8 other products before this?!

He’s a Webflow and memberstack expert and he’s got a smile as big as the Niger Delta.

Has it always been easy for Manuel? Or has it been a real struggle with some massive failures along the way? You be the judge.

The failures that we’ll discuss are:

1. While working in design, not doing enough research results in failed product and layoff :)
2. Not doing marketing enough
3. Almost destroying flowdrive, clearing all assets with a silly mistake

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Hello and welcome to episode 103 of Webflail.

I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Theo Roland

Theo is a man you have no doubt come across on your escapades in the world of Webflow but just in case you haven’t, he’s leading the charge in the Francophone Webflow community.

What does Francophone mean? It means french speaking.

He’s french and runs InitWeb, which includes a frenchspeaking Webflow community, InitClub (1043 people in the slack), as well as bootcamps, self-paced courses and other resources.

Before this, he was a freelancer that taught people online.

On YouTube, he has 1.43K subscribers•114 videos

So, he’s a Webflow Expert & Global Community Leader, but has it always been this way?

Has it always been as dreamy as a float down the river seine with a bottle of vin rouge?

NO!

The failures that we will talk about today are:

• The failure of launching a studio alongside early-stage training. Unable to scale quickly enough -> Abandonment of this premature project in 2021, project revival in 2024.
• The failure in emotionally managing all the help requests from the Francophone Webflow Community Slack. Unable to respond to everyone -> Acceptance of the need to allow others to respond and understanding how to sustain a community independently.
• The failure to properly understand the content expected by the Community and the Learners of the training. Better tracking of needs and gamification to encourage completion. -> Fewer basic questions, more technical questions, easier content creation.

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Hello and welcome to episode 102 of Webflail.

I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Nikolai Bain.

This man isn't just slicked back hair and a glorious moustache. He's also a formidable Webflower.

He’s currently focussing on growth tactics

In his own words, he builds thoughtful websites for businesses that are about to launch, in need of a refresh, or ready to scale

More Nikolai facts:

• 49 templates in the Webflow template library
• Worked with clients in industries such as carbon footprinting technology, data analytics and digital advertising
• 5.81K followers on the YT
• 76 videos recorded and published

So, he’s in his twenties, his consistent YT publishing, his dry sense of kiwi humour have helped him fly like Icarus but has he flown too close to the sun sometimes. 

Like Icarus...

Turns out he is fallible. He does fail sometimes.

The failures that we’ll discuss today are:

• Side project failure: https://www.localfinds.co.uk/ - a client generation failure
• Work failure: working with an agency that is a bad fit and not getting paid
• Freelancing failure: failing to pick a video content niche and therefore getting too many different types of projects requests

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Hello and welcome to episode 101 of Webflail.

I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Stephanie Bruce.

She’s a digital Designer and Framer/Webflow Developer that worked on OFF GRID & 10X Conference websites.

She has got a great eye for design - you know when you look at premium work and just go GODDAMN.

That’s how I feel whenever I see posts from Stephanie on social of beautiful mock ups and renders.

Speaking of renders, she’s also doing a lot more 3D work too recently being involved in the FlowParty course so excited to chat to her about that and more

She’s freelancing like a boss.

BUT HAS IT BEEN EASY?

The fails we’ll talk about in today’s episode are:

1. Poor time underestimating

2. Not appreciating the importance of networking and sharing work

3. Feeling the pressure to keep up with design trends

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So, for the 100th episode, I decided to get the big guns in, fly to SF and do this bad boy in person with the CEO (at the time) and co-founder of Webflow, Vlad Magdalin.

Vlad came to US as a refugee with his parents from Russia.

He learnt graphic design almost by accident when he worked with his entrepreneurial dad asked him to convert catalogues from english to Russian.

This lead to a job with a company called Russian American media → deepened his interest in graphics and then 3D animation.

At college, he studied computer science but dropped out to go to the academy of art in San Francisco.

The technical aspect of sophisticated 3D and animation tools and feeling like he was getting superpowers really interested Vlad.

He dropped out of art school and got a job at a design agency.

Why can’t web designers design stuff and hit publish to be live on the web just like 3D - render something and it’s live on the screen

As you may have guessed, this spark was the catalyst for Webflow.
Webflow now has over 200,000 users and is over $100 million annual revenue.

And it was an easy ride with no failures whatsoever.

No no no dear Webflailer… it wasn’t quite this easy.

The failures that we’ll talk about today are:

1) Not valuing himself when he went back to freelancing – until a client rejected my invoice for $750 and said that to him the site is worth at least $5k

2) Stopping to work on Webflow in 2008 (for the 3rd time) when there was a trademark issue and I couldn’t use that name – combined with Weebly raising money

3) (Not sure if I can talk about this one publicly yet… noodling on it) Getting too caught up in the no-code hype and trying to do too much (e.g. Logic) before fully nailing the fundamentals (e.g. CMS)

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Today my guest is Tory Howell.

She's a design leader with seven years experience in product design and marketing design for organizations that make the world a better place.

Now, she has got extensive design experience.

In fact, in 2014, she was a design editor as a student. And since then, she's had various different jobs as graphic design and then product design. 2 years ago, her and her co-founder, Triniti Burton, struck out on their own to create Doorway Creative with.

These guys do strategies, brands, and websites for purpose driven organizations. They are on a mission to empower companies that are creating change for the world.

So they're riding high, but has it been easy? Of course not. 

The fails we’ll talk about in today’s episode are:

1. Spending time and money creating a service that no one wanted
2. Giving a freelancer the wrong job for them
3. Business partner communication breakdown and conflict

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Today my guest is Vimalan Vijayskaran, the founder of ViDesigns.

He's three years into his agency journey. He has successfully completed, along with his five -man team, over 200 Webflow projects, partnering with top global brands such as Red Bull, Tony Blair Institute, London Interdisciplinary School and loads of other people, obviously.

Now in 2022, they expanded their horizons by venturing into product development. They have built to date six different products and they have over 25 ,000 active monthly users.

These include Formly, FlowPlay, VDS, Chrome extension, FlowPilot, VDS Webflow extension and Bulk SEO.

I'd be surprised if you guys hadn't used at least one of those in the last week alone.
 
Interestingly, he's worked for Finsuite, Code and Wonder and Hans Springer Labs.

This was all before he started his own studio. We'll get into that and much more in this episode. But of course, it's not all been smooth sailing. This kind of growth does not come with some growing pains.

The fails that we talk about in today's episode are hiring the wrong people slash unable to delegate, failing to scope the project properly and set expectations and taking too long to understand that retainers aren't that bad.

So, embrace and learn from failure in episode 98 of Webflail with Virmalam

The fails we’ll talk about in today’s episode are:

1. Hiring the wrong people / unable to delegate
2. Failing to scope the project properly & set expectations
3. Took too long to understand that retainers aren't that bad

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Today my guest is Chloe Daly.

Designing, leading, marketing, SaaS products and high conversion websites is her thing.

She is a killer UI UX designer. Her practice is focused on data informed human centered solutions containing various UI UX design and methodologies.

Now, what's interesting about Chloe is she is doing not just her full time job, but she's also slowly doing her agency.

So she's working full time as a product designer at Peak, which is based in Manchester and the UK and then she's doing a few projects outside of her job as well and slowly growing that.

So as you're about to hear, she is on a roll.

She's working with clients like Foot Locker by day and then her own freelance clients by night.

But has it been easy? Of course not guys. You know the drill by now. Episode 97. You've heard me say this a few times already.

The failures are:

1) Knowing if a project for you or not
2) Not knowing business skills earlier
3) Not getting contracts signed even with friends

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Hello and welcome to episode 96 of Webflail.

I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Benten Woodring

He’s prolific

Here's why:

He's the Sr Web Designer @bunsenstudio, the studio which allies with emergent and advancing science-based companies for strategy, brand, and messaging.

He's building @nooon_studio where web experiences reach critical class. He's also developing @footrdesign, the only footer gallery on earth and a course, Intro To Web Design, Figma Plugins, all the best Figma Plugins— in one place and Pixel pushers and Dare to share...

He’s also prolific at documenting his journey on Twitter.

With feedback from clients, sneak peaks of behind the scenes of collaborators.

He seems like he’s living the dream working with peeps like Devin Fountain, Dare to share challenges, Has it all been easy? LEMME TELL YOU, no it hasn’t.

The failures we’ll discuss today are:
1) Not asking for help
2) Scaling my studio
3) Allowing work to take over my life

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Today, my guest is Julieta Rubio. She's a frontend developer based in Argentina, and combines her love for technology with her passion for art and design.

She’s got an interesting background - she was a tour guide for a wine company in mendoza before retraining as a Growth Engineer for Embeddables building websites and embeddable tools using Webflow, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3.

While she was working at Embeddables, she was learning, growing and developing and starting to get some freelance work.

Now get this, after 4 years at Embeddables, she’s just quit to strike out on her own as a freelancer.

She recently obtained her Webflow’s Partnership certification and now she’s ready to rumble 🎉

Some fails along the way so far include:

1) Drastic site blunder

2) Payment method nightmare

3) Complex migration face plant

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