turbinemonkey

I'm working on an MVP, and have an idea for a large illustration to surround the site's introduction and a survey that will help to complement the message. However, I'm a decent web designer with fair sense of color, proportion, &c, but have zero illustration skills.

This seems like the perfect place for 99designs or crowdspring. From browsing the contests on each site now, it seems like 99designs has more high-quality stuff in their "other" category vs. crowdspring's "illustration" category, but that might be a transient situation.

I'd love to hear any words of advice as to which site I should use for a project like this, which seems like it's not quite in the mainstream of "crowdsourcing" projects. Alternatively, maybe there's another similar site that I'm not aware of that is more appropriate for illustration work, rather than e.g. logos, web design, etc. FWIW, my budget is probably going to land in the $500 area.

We've always hosted our own SCM repos...it's not hard, so why not? Well, my company is now (partially due to me) putting more and more stuff "in the cloud" (AWS, et al.), and the git repos are next. It makes total sense from a resources perspective to use github, but I (and the other partners) are concerned about theft, loss, and/or leakage of our proprietary (gasp!) goodies. Are we (overly) paranoid, or is github actually no less risky than the disgruntled emp problem/general hosting failure problem (e.g. If we were to just put our gitorious on a rackspace slice or something)/our in-house backups failing problem?