Calin Balea

Founder & Designer at Contrast Studio

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I post hot takes on design on Linkedin and Twitter, and cool snapshots of my work on Dribbble and Instagram. Follow my journey.

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Contrast Studio
Design studio for fast-moving start-ups.
Launched Apr. 2023$18k/mo

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Startup Ops - a Free Notion Mega-Template to run your startup - Meeting Agendas, Issues, Tasks, Roadmap, UX Research, and more

Free Design Support for the Next 48 hours

Free design roast. Get yours.

Free design roast. Get yours.

Free design roast. Get yours.

Free design roast. Get yours.

Free design roast. Get yours.

Free design roast. Get yours.

How to receive tasks for productised service?

Free design roast. Get yours.

How to receive tasks for productised service?

Key takeaways growing MRR from $6.5k to $20k for my design studio

Key takeaways growing MRR from $6.5k to $20k for my design studio

Key takeaways growing MRR from $6.5k to $20k for my design studio

4.5k MRR to 20k MRR design agency. Lessons from successful and failed experiments.

Pro tips on how to run user interviews to reach product-market fit (deep dive)

Pro tips on how to run user interviews to reach product-market fit (deep dive)

Fun Friday: Tell IH a fun thing about working on your startup

What does IH think of my new Hero Section?

Fun Friday: Tell IH a fun thing about working on your startup