You could alsos try to create an open marketplace for styles so anyone can submit/buy.
My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
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Re: My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
#12I quit my job in tech support about 4 years ago. Since then, I've made at least 7 attempts at starting a bootstrapped business. My original idea was to build "a live-video youtube" but Justin.tv and uStream showed up just a few months after I got started, and the dream died. Since then, I've launched four search engines (two of which are keeping me ramen-profitable), a twitter app (wasted time), and a "viral" site ba…
You might want to get in touch with some of the various design blogs, like Smashing Magazine and some of the blogs they commonly link to if you're interested in getting some reviews. They also sometimes do prizes and whatnot.
I'm not affiliated with them, just a regular guy who follows them on twitter to try to keep on top of whats 'cool' in the design world.
Re: My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
#13I misread the url and immediately saw "player styles." Perhaps a more succinct brand name or url could help? EDIT: I see "Style Works" on the page now.
Re: My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
#14you really really need to be attacking your organic search rankings to get yourself some traffic -> sales. Contact me privately through my blog in my profile, I run something that can help you.
Re: My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
#15Your top navigation looks like a slyly placed Google Adsense link type unit ~ I would go back and freshen up the other two money makers cause they will need to last for this one to get the steam I think it needs...
Interesting. Google have become so good at making their ads look like ordinary site text, that now ordinary site text looks like Google ads.
Re: My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
#16I read the url as "photo sho player styles". I see the word "photo" and then my eyes tend to jump to the next visible word: "player". Perhaps it is just my eyes but I find the domain name is hard to parse.
With regard to the site itself, I like the idea. However, most of your layer styles look like they are just plain image and emboss styles which can be created for free if you have a decent stock image collection.
One layer style set that I would definitely buy would be layer styles to easily make transparent water, good looking glass, fire effects and other advanced effects. Basic stone and wood isn't hard, its the advanced layer style effects that I would be willing to buy.
Good work though, and I hope this seventh try finds success.
Re: My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
#17I quit my job in tech support about 4 years ago. Since then, I've made at least 7 attempts at starting a bootstrapped business. My original idea was to build "a live-video youtube" but Justin.tv and uStream showed up just a few months after I got started, and the dream died. Since then, I've launched four search engines (two of which are keeping me ramen-profitable), a twitter app (wasted time), and a "viral" site ba…
Playing devil's advocate, what differentiates this from the huge library of free stuff on Deviant Art?
Re: My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
#18Your top navigation looks like a slyly placed Google Adsense link type unit ~ I would go back and freshen up the other two money makers cause they will need to last for this one to get the steam I think it needs...
I noticed that as well. I almost avoided clicking on it for a few seconds before I realized that it was legitimate. I think it is the underlined text. Good navigation links these days are often not underlined.
Re: My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
#19you really really need to be attacking your organic search rankings to get yourself some traffic -> sales. Contact me privately through my blog in my profile, I run something that can help you.
I run something that can help you
A spam bot? A link exchange network? Just curious... most of the techniques for "attacking the organic search rankings" are frowned upon by Google.
Re: My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
#20I quit my job in tech support about 4 years ago. Since then, I've made at least 7 attempts at starting a bootstrapped business. My original idea was to build "a live-video youtube" but Justin.tv and uStream showed up just a few months after I got started, and the dream died. Since then, I've launched four search engines (two of which are keeping me ramen-profitable), a twitter app (wasted time), and a "viral" site ba…
Playing devil's advocate, what differentiates this from the huge library of free stuff on Deviant Art? http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/?qh=&sec...
Resolution and quality, I hope. Most of these textures are 1024px or larger, and they're seamless/tileable, which makes them useful for repeating backgrounds or 3D modeling.
Also, the royalty-free license. A lot of DeviantArt users require you to link to them, or don't allow commercial usage of their art.