I'm the cofounder of myscribr.com. We're a web app that aggregates your lifestream into a journal-style view, gives you tools to explore and augment that content, and allows you to preserve it in the form of a real, physical, color book. </pitch>
We're 4-people strong, all working on this as a side project. We're going for a slow ramp-up and we're self-funding as long as possible. We have developer, bizdev, support and finance talent, and our codebase is 95% complete. What we're lacking is a designer. In our opinion, this is a product that needs to be design-heavy, something beautiful and touchable.
We'd like to find someone who can act as part of the team, someone who's passionate about our product, involved in our brainstorming sessions and has the occasional burger + beer with us. Someone who would be personally interested in the project, and who'd be open to a combination of equity and cash, or other unconventional compensation arrangements. We're in the valley.
So I turn to you, HN, in my time of need. Is there anywhere a founder can look for a designer like this? Somewhere that freelancers post their interests / availability? We're aware of dribbble and will probably post a freelance gig there, but we're looking for more of a "designer personals" site.
From the search phrase "best personal portfolio sites", you can find a couple.
here's one that you might find useful: http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/05/showcase-of-30-singl...