most frustrating part of free sites?

[Mishi]

Originally posted by sickkittens
making them (coming up w/ new layouts)?
time submitting them?
repetition of submiting them?
reading each link lists rules?
other?

Yes.

Actually I find submitting becomes the least frustrating part, once I've developed my rhythm. It doesn't take much time to skim the rules and see if there have been recent changes. (Many thanks to LL owners who post rule change notices in big, bright letters!)

As far as coming up with new layouts...that's the fun part for me. Usually. Sometimes I'm just tired and uninspired but even then I have plenty of templates to fall back on.

Coming up with decent marketing text is often frustrating for me, which really pisses me off because I have a background in marketing and consider myself to be a capable, if not always talented, writer.

Which brings me to what I think is the most frustrating part: Having to wear so many different hats at a time. Designer, coder, writer and trained monkey, often all in one day and often several times throughout the day.

Automation helps, and of course there's always the option of farming out some or all of the work...but despite the frustration, for the time being I'm enjoying the challenge.

I should add...right now I'm posting because I'm feeling frustrated deciding which site I want to promote tonight....