[cilliank]

@mnicole thanks for the really solid feedback. All the points you've raised are quite reasonable. If I'm hearing you correctly your biggest concerns are around the 'cheap' factor and the risk of rip off while also maintain quality content and viable pricing?

I don't want to appear to have an answer for everything but we have a pretty complex community based curation solution that will very much be powered by it's users in the future and we have some ideas on how to work with top designers but at this stage it's very much about proving that there's a need for a tool like this.

Bear in mind, our focus isn't on ripping off - it's actually on allowing creatives to sell the building blocks of their design work between one another. It's really about the 'foundations' and not complete design work. This is for content creators/professionals to rapidly share assets between each other - think about how you use font libraries rapidly rather than perhaps cheap assets. We're not there but we're working on it! :)

On the UX point - can't fault you for spotting that - very eagle eyes, we're still working out some UI kinks and already looking at more drafts of this.

Any more feedback would be appreciated.

[mnicole]

Right. For me, I'm not really into selling my resources to other professionals; for that I'd rather hand them out for free and see what they turn into in the hands of other creatives like is done on Dribbble already (also because I imagine that it is faster for a real designer to be inspired and create new assets than it is for them to download mine and waste time going through the layers, making tweaks, etc). If I'm going to be profiting off of it, I'd be selling the work as-is to devs and/or people that can hardly manage their way around Photoshop or sliced up into sprites and/or straight-up CSS. That being said, while code is more out-of-the-box useful, I can't really justify selling it either since all it takes is a View > Source to steal it.

I'm much more likely to search and find what I need on a service as vast (and generally free) as deviantArt than I am to look on ThemeForest, iStockPhoto or the like. Something about people and money makes the quality of the content go down in order to just churn it out and on the opposite end, the buyer's remorse is greater when you open the file and it isn't what you'd hoped.

[cilliank]

Thanks for this mnicole - probably some of the best feedback we've had! I'm eager to see how many others share this point of view so will keep gathering feedback for now.

Cheers!