mydsgn

[kk.]

Well, ill just post this atm because i would like feedback and if you guys think the idea will work.

I know a lot of people will make designs for things and then decide not to sell or they dont want it. Well, theres a place called sitepoint that you could use but i think its a very hard site to use and i think it has weird payment methods (monthly or something). Well anyway, im looking to build a site based around the idea of being able to upload and sell your designs.

The way to make money would be buy offering 'space' on the site, so like, 5 designs for £1 or something. I cant take commission out of the price for obvious reasons being that people will just PM each other, and do that transaction outside of the site.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/8664/mydsgndesign2copy.jpg

I would say if you want to help out on the site contact me, but its mainly coding that needs to be done. Ive only done that page at the minute and thats not even done yet, but ill post more as i do it if you want. Its just a general concept.

Josh

[Invent]

I don't like the idea, simply because it's been done so many times before and there are so many places for people to sell their designs.

Sitepoint, Flippa, DigitalPoint, etc.

[hamheyelliot]

Nice design you have there, but the concept is a bit exhausted.

[kk.]

sitepoint, hard to use, not just a selling website,
flippa, auctions only, hard to navigate, selling whoole website, coded by the looks of things,
digital point, http://forums.digitalpoint.com/? if so, fourm, hard to navigate and find useful designs.

The sites to also build a community of designers, favouriting designs, taking inspiration and that would be achieved by 'hearts' and ratings. The more hearts you have, the more likely your design will be seen and so the better your design, the more likely a buyer will buy it. same with ratings tbh,

I havnt foiund a reasonable site to sell my designs, which is why, (back last year) i thought of the idea :)

[Johno]

What about ThemeForest (http://themeforest.net/) - I reckon it's kind of the same concept and it seems pretty reasonable. But however, I wish you the best of luck!

[kk.]

missed that site, jus had a quick look, the first impression is it looks nice but then you look closer and its not that nice really. All shoved to the left, top left corner, outdated. Not only that, if you sell a design on there, you get just 40% of its worth :O wth lol on 'mydsgn' (not final name) say a £500 sold, youd have only lost about 1%, which is nothing really.

anyway, thanks :)

[Excellent2]

I quite like the layout but I don't see this kicking off. There are some well known sites, as quoted, which do the exact same thing as mydsgn. Granted, the sites in question are tough to navigate round and take commission, but they work.

Designers these days are taking to freelance methods, instead of just throwing their designs around, waiting for the income to be generated.

If you can work on the idea a bit more, and perhaps find a gap, it will take off.

So for that reason alone Josh, I'm out.

*Hit the dragons den music*

[kk.]

haha,i dont see why it isnt a sort of gap anyway, i know it seems like more people do freelance work but, tbh, they'll still have sites they dont sell and are trying to sell on their website. so they may as well submit themlol, you have any suggestions lucas, just msg me on msn :D

[RichardKnox]

SitePoint is crazily easy to use, and I don't know where you're getting the monthly payment thing from, as you buy credits to post designs.
DigitalPoint is so bad, the amount of ****** designs that get posted on there, seriously.
ThemeForest is by far the best around currently, and it would be hard to try and take any marketshare at all from there.

So if I was you, and you choose to continue this, I'd have at launch at least 20 or 30 GOOD designs available to buy, or even better make a certain amount free in an attempt to gain at least some publicity. It could work, but will be so, so hard to make it big. Also, I wouldn't advise saying 'stick your old, unused designs on here' as that will put off potential customers in thinking that these were not good enough for a 'proper' job. Keep your application process very, very tight as well because then you can only allow the top work on there, which is why ThemeForest has made it so big (also because it's part of the envato network of course). Interestingly enough the envato network has only been around for about a year and look how big they are now. This is the internet, anything is possible.

[Agnostic Bear]

You've obviously hell bent on going ahead with this so stop asking the opinion of people and just do it instead of wasting time :S

[Awfy]

Yeah this won't work, places like Designer's Couch already offer a job board with design ratings by the community which means it's the ultimate way to get freelance or sell designs. Plus it's a private community on the designer side so they only let people in who they think are good meaning the quality of designs/code is a lot higher.

[Fehm]

missed that site, jus had a quick look, the first impression is it looks nice but then you look closer and its not that nice really. All shoved to the left, top left corner, outdated. Not only that, if you sell a design on there, you get just 40% of its worth :O wth lol on 'mydsgn' (not final name) say a £500 sold, youd have only lost about 1%, which is nothing really.

anyway, thanks :)

Just accept its been done before?

If you can make it better... and can proove this without being opinionated, then do it.

I use DigitalPoint loads.. and I've never found it uneasy to navigate or find designs I need.

[Wench-Europe]

... There are too many people also hell-bent on using the sites they've already made money from. I've made over £4k from 99Designs ... Why should I use your site over theirs where I know I can make money?

If you can't answer that question, then you have NO MARKET. It's already saturated.

If you have an answer like, to target up and coming designers, then you have bad designers in a poor buying market.

If you have an answer like, some designers will use it and you'll put your own designs there, then where's your buyers? No PR, fresh site, little if any advertising, means not many designs on there, with not many buyers, and if your site has no reputation in a huge market, with only a handful of designers, then it has no credibility.

[kk.]

wench, i use 99designs too, and the amount of contests ive entered and not won is far greater than the designs i have. I need a place to sell the designs i dont win, and this would be it. I know youre all saying, 'its been done so many times before', Tbh, if you cant tell, i dont give a crap. Ive told you why this is a possible idea. As for buyers, why do you think im a 10 year old kid, trying to be patronising? Little if any advertising? ok, since when did i say anything about that?

Designer couch, although looks great, as you said, it involves a private community. This would be an open community, but you get rewarded for having better designs, so if your design is horrible, it goes straight to the bottom of the pile which is what im trying to do, similar to logopond. If your designs good, it'll be at the top, once someone clicks 'buy it now' it'll disappear (as i intend the site being a 1 design 1 sell).

I really cant be bothered to defend it any longer so am just gonna get on with it when i can lol.

Before i forget richard, i dont know where i got it from either lol.

[Wench-Europe]

It's like banging your head against a wall. You people think you're great. It amuses me greatly. You know you said you've entered loads and won hardly any ... Doesn't that tell you anything?

If you don't give a crap, don't post your hap-hazard "ideas".

Buyers - Why buy from you, when there is existing, trusted sites that the best designers use? Why buy from you instead of using 99D where they can see hundreds of entries?

Advertising - Unless you have enough money to get you into PR4 minimum, and an advertising budget of over £2500, it's pointless. You're just not going to be able to compete.

I will bet good money on the fact your site won't get anywhere. You're too stubborn and generally bone-headed.

[Blob]

It's like banging your head against a wall. You people think you're great. It amuses me greatly. You know you said you've entered loads and won hardly any ... Doesn't that tell you anything?


Im sure it tells him that there are better designers out there or maybe his layouts aren't the style they are going for.


If you don't give a crap, don't post your hap-hazard "ideas".



Maybe he wanted some ideas on how to improve his idea and not being attacked by you?


Buyers - Why buy from you, when there is existing, trusted sites that the best designers use? Why buy from you instead of using 99D where they can see hundreds of entries?


Because then it doesn't have to be a contest, people can just post designs when they want and know it might have a chance of being bought, where as at 99D, one design is chosen. (or am i wrong?)


Advertising - Unless you have enough money to get you into PR4 minimum, and an advertising budget of over £2500, it's pointless. You're just not going to be able to compete.

Sites start out small, why not this one.


I will bet good money on the fact your site won't get anywhere. You're too stubborn and generally bone-headed.

No, maybe he wants to proove other people wrong to get them to support him? Not his fault people are flaming him, just like you are.

[kk.]

It's like banging your head against a wall.
:eusa_wall


You people think you're great. It amuses me greatly. You know you said you've entered loads and won hardly any ... Doesn't that tell you anything?
what i meant by 'loads' was about 50.. and thats over more than a year, and the first ones were crap. I currently have a client from there now if you would like to know..


If you don't give a crap, don't post your hap-hazard "ideas".
I dont give a crap about peoples opinions on why they dont think it will work, maybe them saying i dont give a crap but heres how you could. and not only that, feedback on the design..


Buyers - Why buy from you, when there is existing, trusted sites that the best designers use? Why buy from you instead of using 99D where they can see hundreds of entries?
Twitter, why use that when theres facebook? seems pretty pointless tbh. And thats not the case about 99D. If you actually read my posts, it doesnt have the benefits of just looking through designs, and not only that, it would be hard to find what you want on there.



Advertising - Unless you have enough money to get you into PR4 minimum, and an advertising budget of over £2500, it's pointless. You're just not going to be able to compete.
And you would know how much im planning on spending how? Sponsors? do you know if i have any? i dont but you dont know that. Please stop attacking the 'your company is new, no one will use it, just stupid amg'. How has nearly every other company started up? Exactly, starting small.


I will bet good money on the fact your site won't get anywhere. You're too stubborn and generally bone-headed.
What exactly was your last account name, i really would like to know and would probably explain a lot

[Wench-Europe]

Sigh.

Twitter had a huge budget to make a dent in the market. As did Facebook. The only small sites that get popular under their own steam is if it's a new, innovative idea. This, isn't. Nor does it have the budget to dent the market.

"I dont give a crap about peoples opinions." ~ You really think your websites going to work?

We're not attacking. These people are being serious. They won't use it - and if this level of people wouldn't use it (and you're scrapping the barrel already), then it's just going to fall on its' face.

Post a link as soon as you get it up. I'll be interested in seeing it (fail).

[kk.]

you took a quote and added a full stop. well done. it makes it sound completely different, if youre going to make a comment, make sure you get it all next time.

I was talking about twitters or facebooks budget, i was merely saying, why use twitter when you have facebook. it does the same if you want to.

I think you mean scraping the barrel, scrapping the barrel would be like throwing it away.

What was your last account name, i really would like to know..

[hamheyelliot]

You'd be surprised how far $100 will get you if you buy a few spots on Buysellads (http://buysellads.com).

Still, I agree the market is saturated, but if you feel you have something unique and promising, just have a bit of confidence and go ahead with it if you think it might work. You try, and it works or fails. You leave it, it just fails.

[Wench-Europe]

FALSE HOPE.

Get something that is actually unique to start with and then you're onto a winner.