I love when products go deep for their core users. This is one of the best ideas and executions I've seen among any of the companies trying to create marketplaces for digital goods.
This is an incredible idea coming from the Creative Market. Very well done. I wonder how long it takes Envato (Theme Forest, Code Canyon, etc.) to make a version of this for their products/sites.
Nice idea and implementation.
Was it difficult building the plugin for photoshop ?
I ask because I have been toying with building a photoshop plugin for handling feedback on designs. i.e. the plugin allows you to upload a design to a website where customers can comment. The plugin would allow you to view the comments from within Photoshop.
I like this, but it also underscores one of the reasons I'm skeptical of this specific marketplace. I find it very difficult to actually know what I'm buying. Assets are often little more than a generic description with a few hard to see thumbnails tacked on to show you what you'll get.
I've definitely found myself hoping for more detail / product information. While this looks well-implemented I wonder if it won't take me a step further away from what I'm buying, which is the reverse of what I want.
I love that the actual experience (or something damn close to it) is usable right there in the home page. Great work.
While I appreciate that you're going for a Photoshop UI theme in the browser panel there (and I think it's very nice in terms of presentation), I think it's a big mistake to use decorative UI elements that don't actually work. It's impossible for a user to look at that panel and tell what is actual UI, and what is merely decoration, which is disorienting and frustrating.
This idea is simply brilliant. You've reduced the friction it takes for me to buy an asset that I might not have otherwise purchased to essentially one click, at exactly the right moment (the moment I need it, without breaking my work-flow or concentration).
My first suggestion would be to figure out how to market the hell out of this. There are some really great Photoshop plugins out there that I've seen pop up on HN maybe once or twice at most and I've spoken to designer friends in person who have never heard of them. The first step would be to look into advertising on the design blogs and sites like http://beautifulpixels.com/. You might then look into a sponsored post on DaringFireball or similar site (from what I've heard, the ROI on his posts is pretty good).