Jared Brown

“Who did we work with to design the website for the podcast? Can you send me their email?” — a message that I dug up this morning from a past colleague; we worked together on a lot of projects, and regularly hired designers, engineers and UX researchers for fractional work. Maintaining our network of Independent talent, their availability, rates, preferred tools, etc, etc, was *so* tedious that...

Absolutely stoked about today's launch of Portfolio Magic at Contra. As someone who's worked on the engineering side, it's a game-changer to use AI to streamline portfolio creation and make the lives of freelancers simpler. There's a lot of tools to build portfolio—but something not talked about very often is performance of the websites these tools generate. Not to nerd out, but I'm proud to...

As an engineer, it can be really difficult to create a visually stunning portfolio website—in the past, I’ve either tried to design it myself and come up short of my standards, or I’ve gotten help from designers. But this is a difficult, time consuming process when I want to publish my work quickly, and have it looking it’s best. Combine this endeavor with managing various tools, platforms,...

The Contra x TikTok Jumps drop is ✨ huge ✨, and I am so excited! The team at Contra is hard at work creating a space for the independent workforce. This partnership enables independents to work the way they want—shortening the pipeline to turn their content into clients 💰💸