Paolo Fontana's profile on Product Hunt

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Designer with a background in architecture. 25 years across graphic design, creative direction, spatial design, publishing, and contemporary art. I don't collect skills — I think horizontally. Started from space, ended up at the pixel. Currently building DriftDrift, a web experiment that treats images like financial assets.

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1d ago

How long is it appropriate to work for one employer?

When I started my first job after school at a small local agency, a project manager once said something like: If someone has three companies on their CV and stayed less than a year in each, it doesn t look good.

I took that to heart. I tried to stay longer in every role, so I wouldn t seem unreliable, even in underpaid jobs I didn t enjoy. I endured it just to make my CV look stable. In hindsight, it was a little bit stupid. (Sometimes a waste of time.)

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10h ago

DriftDrift - Pinterest meets Wall Street

What if images had a stock price? I built a web app around it. Most finance tools show you numbers. DriftDrift shows you movement. Each image becomes a live object — its momentum determined by how the crowd votes, built by a designer so every decision came from how it feels to look at, not how it works. Just drift.

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16d ago

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How do you decide what features should be free and what should be paid?

Let me start from the creator s perspective:
I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).

But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).