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Michael Malavich

Co-founder and CEO, HYPE4 · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michał Malewicz is a UI/UX product designer and entrepreneur who co-founded the design agency HYPE4 and HYPE4 Academy. He is known for popularizing Neumorphism and Glassmorphism, authoring Designing User Interfaces, and lecturing on UI design at SWPS University.

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Opinion
Malavich: Prefers Sketch over Figma due to workflow and speed limitations
“A lot of people use Figma right now, but I'm not a fan of Figma for various reasons. I work pretty fast and adjust the workflow doesn't work. So I work primarily in Sketch and we actually built the books in Sketch as well.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 6:13 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Assertion Partly supported
Malavich: Coined popular UI design trends Neumorphism and Glassmorphism
“I accidentally coined a couple of very popular design trends worldwide. It kind of led to also adding these to the book because we have to be, you know, if I created a term called, like, new morphism or glass morphism that became popular in the design trends o…”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 6:39 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Disclosure
Malavich: Would consider selling Hype4 for $5 million to $10 million
“Obviously, if the price was like super crazy in a way, then maybe we would even consider it... Probably around five or 10 mil.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 10:39 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Malavich: Ebook 'Designing UI' generated $170,000 in just over a year
“It's currently at 170,000 dollars in a little over a year.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 2:30 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Malavich: Stanford university class was taught using 'Designing UI' ebook
“We know that a class at Stanford was actually being taught using the book.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 3:05 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Malavich: Hype4 sold 1,000 course pre-orders in just three weeks
“And also we actually sold a thousand pre-orders in like three weeks.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 5:09 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Disclosure
Malavich: Hype4 aims to reach $1 million in revenue in 2021
“We're aiming for a mil, but we'll see.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 13:26 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
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Malavich: Hype4 generated over $500,000 in revenue in 2020
“Like a little over half.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 13:32 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Malavich: Hype4 achieves 40% to 50% year-over-year revenue growth
“Yeah, it's still, it like has year over year growth of about like between 50, 40%.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 13:39 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
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Malavich: Hype4 generated its 2020 revenue across seven or eight clients
“Okay, so for, yeah, for the entire company, it was I think seven or eight clients.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 14:15 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Disclosure
Malavich: Hype4 is building proprietary SaaS tools for designers and developers
“We're building a couple of SaaS products in the background. As I said, they're not really that big yet, but they are kind of based on our needs as designers and developers.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 14:33 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Opinion
Malavich: Asana and Notion are slow, disconnected, and missing features
“Like we tried Asana, we tried Notion and they're not really that perfect for us in like, there is always either something missing or they're too slow or they're not really that well connected.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 16:44 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
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Malavich: Hype4 has 15,000 subscribers across its newsletter and channels
“We have 15,000 people in our newsletters and in our other channels.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 8:15 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
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Malavich: Hype4's 'Designing UI' newsletter achieves a 50-55% open rate
“Between 50% or 55, sometimes around that.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 9:10 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Disclosure
Malavich: Hype4 passed on startup investment to remain fully bootstrapped
“And we actually had Some opportunities with our other startups, with our apps that we've been doing to take investment, and we always wanted to actually do it on our own and to build our own thing.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 10:29 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
Disclosure
Malavich: Earns approximately $1,500 monthly from writing on Medium
“Every month medium pays me like 1500 dollars, and then YouTube pays me a little bit more every month because the channel is growing”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 12:22 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next? Jun 15, 2021 11m
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