Hi! I might have missed your comment first, sorry for the longer reply! Thank you for this question! I think DP is a good design company, still, we might be different in a few dimensions.
First, we have different focuses. I see them going after e-commerce and graphics/illustrations, while we strongly develop a product design expertise serving global startups. Then, what we do is we build own design community (btw, being very inspired by YC community too). Having these two segments of users, we build our own product and a matching algorithm between them (you might even notice this magnet analogy in our logo).
So I respect other companies doing things that look similar. Still, we just build what we believe is best for the users we're serving.
Interesting, I've used them at a few startups (including a YC one) so I'm skeptical they have that much of a different focus but the community aspect and matching algos are interesting, it's something we tried to do at Gigster back in the day too.
First, we have different focuses. I see them going after e-commerce and graphics/illustrations, while we strongly develop a product design expertise serving global startups. Then, what we do is we build own design community (btw, being very inspired by YC community too). Having these two segments of users, we build our own product and a matching algorithm between them (you might even notice this magnet analogy in our logo).
So I respect other companies doing things that look similar. Still, we just build what we believe is best for the users we're serving.