I research, design and build products that go live. You focus on getting customers.

By the numbers
  • $125M+, raised by clients
  • 70M+, requests a month on Flowdrive
  • 1,800+, workspaces on Flowdrive
Teams using my work
  • ElevenLabs, uses Flowdrive
  • MoonPay, client, via StudioDuo
  • Chili Piper, uses Flowdrive
  • Isembard, client, via StudioDuo
  • HockeyStack, uses Flowdrive
  • Ben's Bites, client
  • Dagster, uses Flowdrive
  • Ankar, client, via StudioDuo
  • Lindy, uses Flowdrive
  • Lucra, client, via StudioDuo
  • StayNorth, client
  • Augment, client, via StudioDuo
What clients say
“Working with Manuel was very easy — he just got on with the job and made things work. We now have a faster, more robust version of Webflow and Memberstack. Would recommend.”
Ben Tossell · Founder, Ben's Bites
Now Founding designer at Taking a limited number of contract projects.

Products

All products

Flowdrive

Live Solo
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File and video hosting for Webflow. Upload and deliver on your own domain. Used by teams at ElevenLabs, Chili Piper and Lindy.

workspaces
1,800+
requests a month
70M+
Webflow installs
11k
went live
May '24
Walkthrough of the Flowdrive app: file library, delivery settings, analytics and custom domain

The real app: file library, delivery settings, analytics, custom domain.

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Markdrop

Live Solo
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Feedback on websites, images and PDFs, with a task board, inbox and Slack. Every comment is pinned to the actual element, not a screenshot of it.

studios
200+
first build
Mar '25
to build
2 months
went live
May '25
Markdrop: pinned comments on a live client site, the task board, inbox and Slack

Pinned comments on a live client site, the task board, inbox and Slack.

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Websites, brands, 3D and motion I've designed and built for startups, independently and through StudioDuo, the studio I co-founded in 2023. Clients include MoonPay, Lucra, Ankar and Isembard.

72 projects$125M+ raised by clientsHired by YC startups

Case studies

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Flowdrive: hosting for Webflow, designed and built end to end

A Webflow developer ships audio testimonials, then the client opens the site in Safari and hears nothing. How that gap became a product, the calls that shaped it, and the day I deleted every customer asset.

  1. 01 A file that works everywhere except Safari
  2. 02 Four calls that shaped the product
  3. 03 I deleted every customer asset
  4. 04 What I would do differently

Sole designer and engineer Research to code · 12 min read

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Markdrop: feedback that stays on the thing it is about

Anchoring comments to the live element instead of a screenshot.

2 min read

Why half of Flowdrive's signups never uploaded a file

Research, a smaller sidebar, and what activation did next.

Coming soon
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How we work together

  1. 01 · Validate Something real to test, fast. About two weeks.
  2. 02 · Build Shipped and handed off. Through to launch.
  3. 03 · Partner In the product decisions. Ongoing, with your team.
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About

I quit my job to build my own ideas. One of them runs at ElevenLabs.

Once you've designed, built, priced, marketed and supported your own product, a brief stops being a list of screens to make and becomes a set of decisions to get right.

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Currently Digital nomad
Manuel in glasses, looking up from his laptop, photographed from below
Contact

Got something that has to go live? Let's talk.

Tell me what you're building. I'll tell you if I'm the right person for it.