Pratham Jindal

In the last 6 months, I paid him ₹6,01,000. The only pending amount is for the last month (₹40k), which is unpaid because he left the work incomplete and exited midway. (will be paid once done) The claims he has made are negatively affecting my reputation, making it seem like I didn’t pay him for the work he did. Yet many of you are blindly trusting a one-sided narrative without understanding the full context. Here’s the complete story, pls read it to understand what actually happened: x.com/Praha37v/statu…

Update: this has been resolved. Grateful to everyone in the design community who supported me through this stressful phase and stood for what’s fair 🙏 Really Means a lot. I was owed ₹1.33L but ₹1.5L has been paid, and the remaining ₹17k will be settled by evening. I never intended to affect anyone’s reputation but the situation led me to take that step. I always prefer resolving things calmly and directly. Thanks a lot Design Community!🫶🫶 @BrettFromDJ @adriankuleszo @jamesm @stevelauda_ @rahulbhadoriiya @hewarsaber the list would be too long if I tagged everybody, but truly appreciate each one of you.

This is how designers get exploited. I joined Lander studio (@Praha37v ) without a contract. No written agreement. No notice period. Just mutual trust. I never joined to earn a lot of money - but to learn new things, meet new people, build meaningful connections, in general to gain experience & grow. Structure was simple: – ₹40,000/month base – ~10% incentive on client projects I worked on I showed up consistently for ~6 months. Delivered on multiple client projects. Worked over 12 hrs a day with no fixed holidays. Then things changed. When I decided to leave, surprisingly I was given 3 options to get my pending dues: Work 1 more month → no incentives paid Work 2 months, complete 10 templates → 50% incentives + salary Work 3 months, complete 15 templates → 80% incentives + salary (That’s ~1 template every 3 days. 12+ hrs a day.) And obviously I didn’t agree to these terms. Now, despite multiple follow-ups, my dues are still pending. Breakdown: – ₹40,000 (salary of the last month) – ~$900 from 3 client projects Total: ~₹1.3L Instead of clearing the dues, I am also seeing the work I contributed in the last month to being used commercially on framer marketplace with a completely different account (not his usual account). I’m not here to create any drama - just asking for what’s fair. Asking the pay for 300+ hrs of hardwork. Praha, please clear the pending amount. At last I just want to say that I am not only standing up to get my money, but also for myself, for my right, for what I deserve. And honestly it’s too much stress for me as a 18y/o, so want to resolve it as soon as possible. Fellow designers: If this feels unfair to you too, Would really appreciate every kind of support in bringing this post visibility so that no other designers go through this trauma. Thank you.

Update: this has been resolved. Grateful to everyone in the design community who supported me through this stressful phase and stood for what’s fair 🙏 Really Means a lot. I was owed ₹1.33L but ₹1.5L has been paid, and the remaining ₹17k will be settled by evening. I never intended to affect anyone’s reputation but the situation led me to take that step. I always prefer resolving things calmly and directly. Thanks a lot Design Community!🫶🫶 @BrettFromDJ @adriankuleszo @jamesm @stevelauda_ @rahulbhadoriiya @hewarsaber the list would be too long if I tagged everybody, but truly appreciate each one of you.

This is how designers get exploited. I joined Lander studio (@Praha37v ) without a contract. No written agreement. No notice period. Just mutual trust. I never joined to earn a lot of money - but to learn new things, meet new people, build meaningful connections, in general to gain experience & grow. Structure was simple: – ₹40,000/month base – ~10% incentive on client projects I worked on I showed up consistently for ~6 months. Delivered on multiple client projects. Worked over 12 hrs a day with no fixed holidays. Then things changed. When I decided to leave, surprisingly I was given 3 options to get my pending dues: Work 1 more month → no incentives paid Work 2 months, complete 10 templates → 50% incentives + salary Work 3 months, complete 15 templates → 80% incentives + salary (That’s ~1 template every 3 days. 12+ hrs a day.) And obviously I didn’t agree to these terms. Now, despite multiple follow-ups, my dues are still pending. Breakdown: – ₹40,000 (salary of the last month) – ~$900 from 3 client projects Total: ~₹1.3L Instead of clearing the dues, I am also seeing the work I contributed in the last month to being used commercially on framer marketplace with a completely different account (not his usual account). I’m not here to create any drama - just asking for what’s fair. Asking the pay for 300+ hrs of hardwork. Praha, please clear the pending amount. At last I just want to say that I am not only standing up to get my money, but also for myself, for my right, for what I deserve. And honestly it’s too much stress for me as a 18y/o, so want to resolve it as soon as possible. Fellow designers: If this feels unfair to you too, Would really appreciate every kind of support in bringing this post visibility so that no other designers go through this trauma. Thank you.

I think you guys might have read @Praha37v recent article & reply to my first post but both of them completely doesn’t make any sense to me, you might felt the same as I did. First of all he didn’t paid me 6,01,000, the net amount he paid me was 4,48,000. the difference is the company asset which was provided to me and I have safely returned that to one of our team member as Praha asked me to do. So Lying about my pay doesn’t makes sense. (Attaching all the proofs here) Secondly, he explicitly used “ processing the incentive, which are already discussed, is his personal decision" 🤯. Doesn’t that sounds a bit ridiculous. So, first he is motivating an employee that do the project and you will get x% share, the employee gives his best and then Praha says that it’s my personal decision to process it or not. Makes no sense. He can’t keep employees in this fake bubble. Few points from article that I want to counter: 1.⁠ ⁠He was paying me more than what I had asked, because on that same call, he said that you have to give all your day and treat it like your company. Which I really did until all this happened! Not really sure if 12-13 hrs a day is less. 2.⁠ ⁠In my opinion, leaving a company in 6 months is not equivalent to abusing and misusing the environment at all. Instead company environment felt a bit toxic, negative and disrespectful to me lately! 3.⁠ ⁠About the ‘project’ that I didn’t complete: I mentioned him in my messages that I will make sure that the transition will be smooth from my side, so intentionally I didn’t want to leave that midway. 4.⁠ ⁠Also there was no working day left for which I will work for. 29th gone arguing with each other and me returning the laptop to team member. And on 30 you removed me from both of the 2 main groups, so I think from here the intention was clear. Recently, he had a case with one of the client projects I worked on, client ghosted after project completion. But at the end, they pay him. That’s what morally ethical and right thing to do. The goal was never to disrespect or to affect Praha's reputation. It was just to stand up and express, what wrong and unethical happened with me after discussing it directly. I want to end this by today or max tomorrow after. hence, I request Praha to pay my hard-earned dues asap. I think that's all to prove that my pay is due. Thank you. I am attaching all the proofs in thread. 🧵

This is how designers get exploited. I joined Lander studio (@Praha37v ) without a contract. No written agreement. No notice period. Just mutual trust. I never joined to earn a lot of money - but to learn new things, meet new people, build meaningful connections, in general to gain experience & grow. Structure was simple: – ₹40,000/month base – ~10% incentive on client projects I worked on I showed up consistently for ~6 months. Delivered on multiple client projects. Worked over 12 hrs a day with no fixed holidays. Then things changed. When I decided to leave, surprisingly I was given 3 options to get my pending dues: Work 1 more month → no incentives paid Work 2 months, complete 10 templates → 50% incentives + salary Work 3 months, complete 15 templates → 80% incentives + salary (That’s ~1 template every 3 days. 12+ hrs a day.) And obviously I didn’t agree to these terms. Now, despite multiple follow-ups, my dues are still pending. Breakdown: – ₹40,000 (salary of the last month) – ~$900 from 3 client projects Total: ~₹1.3L Instead of clearing the dues, I am also seeing the work I contributed in the last month to being used commercially on framer marketplace with a completely different account (not his usual account). I’m not here to create any drama - just asking for what’s fair. Asking the pay for 300+ hrs of hardwork. Praha, please clear the pending amount. At last I just want to say that I am not only standing up to get my money, but also for myself, for my right, for what I deserve. And honestly it’s too much stress for me as a 18y/o, so want to resolve it as soon as possible. Fellow designers: If this feels unfair to you too, Would really appreciate every kind of support in bringing this post visibility so that no other designers go through this trauma. Thank you.

This is how designers get exploited. I joined Lander studio (@Praha37v ) without a contract. No written agreement. No notice period. Just mutual trust. I never joined to earn a lot of money - but to learn new things, meet new people, build meaningful connections, in general to gain experience & grow. Structure was simple: – ₹40,000/month base – ~10% incentive on client projects I worked on I showed up consistently for ~6 months. Delivered on multiple client projects. Worked over 12 hrs a day with no fixed holidays. Then things changed. When I decided to leave, surprisingly I was given 3 options to get my pending dues: Work 1 more month → no incentives paid Work 2 months, complete 10 templates → 50% incentives + salary Work 3 months, complete 15 templates → 80% incentives + salary (That’s ~1 template every 3 days. 12+ hrs a day.) And obviously I didn’t agree to these terms. Now, despite multiple follow-ups, my dues are still pending. Breakdown: – ₹40,000 (salary of the last month) – ~$900 from 3 client projects Total: ~₹1.3L Instead of clearing the dues, I am also seeing the work I contributed in the last month to being used commercially on framer marketplace with a completely different account (not his usual account). I’m not here to create any drama - just asking for what’s fair. Asking the pay for 300+ hrs of hardwork. Praha, please clear the pending amount. At last I just want to say that I am not only standing up to get my money, but also for myself, for my right, for what I deserve. And honestly it’s too much stress for me as a 18y/o, so want to resolve it as soon as possible. Fellow designers: If this feels unfair to you too, Would really appreciate every kind of support in bringing this post visibility so that no other designers go through this trauma. Thank you.