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.

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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 All shoved to the left, top left corner, outdated.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 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

[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