“What’s Your Inspiration?” PSFK Talks to Sahadeva Hammari of CollabFinder

We’re excited about CollabFinder.com, a recently launched site that offers creatives, web designers, and developers a simple, straightforward way to to find one another and collaborate on projects. The site makes finding and working together on creative endeavors – from launching a website to designing a new logo – easier for both those in search of collaborators and those looking to participate.

We asked co-founder Sahadeva Hammari, also one of the thinkers behind Rumplo.com and founders of Boy Girl Talk, to tell us a bit about where he finds his inspiration in creating tools like CollabFinder and what he hopes it will bring to the creative community.

What’s your inspiration?

If I were to measure how inspirational something was by how much it made me want to get off the couch and do something great — which seems like a pretty reasonable way to measure it — I’d probably have to say that what really inspires me… is just seeing people do smart stuff when it’s difficult, when it’s scary and seems impossible. It always gets me, even though the examples of people doing that kind of thing are nearly infinite.

And when I think about it it’s not just the actions themselves that makes those moments of daring remarkable. I think we recognize the character required to do those difficult things, and that that character takes a lot of experience and reflection and time to develop. When I say I’m inspired by Hillman Curtis’s video about Stefan Sagmeister or by Richard Yate’s books or by my parents it comes from an appreciation of how hard it is to do what they did, to make what they made, and to have the courage to stick with something long enough to be good at it and to take the plunge in the first place. That’s a big part of the motivation behind CollabFinder (collabfinder.com), a project I built with my pal Ian Van Ness recently, which is meant to make it easier for web designers and developers to do the difficult thing and actually start building the projects they’ve been thinking about, in their heads, but not actually sitting down and building. In my experience finding a great collaborator is the hardest part of actually doing something larger than oneself, so I’m hoping CollabFinder becomes a tool that makes it nearly impossible for designers and developers not to be able find someone great to work with and start building the projects they dream of building.

Thanks, Sahadeva!

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