A good place to *sell* code

Jasconius

I've got my hands on a pretty rad Flash component I wrote this week, and it is in the vein of the typical sort of Flash components that usually sell obscenely well.

I'm getting it ready to ship, but I need a place to front my goods.

There are sites like FlashDen, but FlashDen charges an absolutely horrible commission (40%!!)... does anyone know of any other design resource marketplaces with reasonable traffic that I can move my product?

*edit* I wrote it myself, forgive my totally abhorrent use of the English language in line 1.

mspencer

"Got my hands on" usually indicates you acquired, found, bought, etc. and usually isn't applied to something you created with your own blood and sweat.

There are many reasons why nobody is replying, but maybe this is one. Maybe you should clarify.

Hamster_style

haha, you tl;dr'd a 3 sentence post?

Jasconius wrote:

pretty rad Flash component I wrote this week

As to the OP, sorry, I don't know much about this kind of thing. Wish you luck though!

Dog

What kind of flash component are we talking about here?


And man, FD charges 40% now? That's absurd.

Jasconius

It's an OOP wrapper class set designed for advanced flash designers to string together animated slides in a highly configurable manner with a lot of bells and whistles.

Yeah, FD is 40%... actually if you don't sign their godamned exclusivity contract I believe it starts at 60% for the first X sold.

I actually already run a digital distribution site but it gets nowhere near the traffic necessary to get what I think would be a reasonable return on it.

And yes, I wrote the component from scratch.

ascannerlightly

Hamster_style wrote: »

haha, you tl;dr'd a 3 sentence post?

Jasconius wrote:

pretty rad Flash component I wrote this week

you tl;dr'd his 2 sentence reply?

mspencer wrote:

"Got my hands on" usually indicates you acquired, found, bought, etc. and usually isn't applied to something you created with your own blood and sweat.]

There are many reasons why nobody is replying, but maybe this is one. Maybe you should clarify.

the fact that you're in here making a comment like this when your post is comprised of 0% help and/or advice....

@ OP

http://www.flashcomponents.net/index.html

i do not endorse this website nor have i ever even used it, so i can't speak to it's pricing and/or professionalism, but it seems high-traffic.

Jasconius

Cool, I'll check that one out. These sites are absurdly hard to google for because it's usually dominated by Kirupa, Actionscript.org, and FlashKit, three of the worst sites on the planet.

ascannerlightly

sometimes when i can't find what i'm looking for (or not liking the results i AM getting) i'll google what i'm looking for phrased as a question. in this case i searched for "where can i sell flash components i wrote?"

also: that site ultrashock sent my ff into a tailspin. it crashed 4 times before i gave up and told it to start a new session.

Jasconius

Ultrashock is... interesting. You'd think they were loading the entire DB into Flex every time you hit a page.

Ultrashock is probably in my top 10 of "Sites that completely abuse Flash for no reason at all".

*edit*

turns out that site you linked starts at *60%*, and only goes down to 50% with exclusivity until you hit big numbers at which it troughs at 40%.... absolutely bananas.

I should really just expand my service. I'd make a killing at 20% commission.

Szechuanosaurus

This is completely not what you're asking for but I'm going to throw it out as a suggestion, not even necessarily a 'I think this is the best idea, use my idea, I'm awesome' suggestion, just as a 'how about, have you thought of maybe' suggestion.

Give it away for free. I know, it's nuts. I can't even believe I'm saying it. Me, the guy who would defend copyright against a horde of pirate zombies with nothing but a spork if it came down to it. The guy who makes a hobby of cruising the streets at night looking for designers who do free pitch work to murder and dump their bodies in the Firth of Forth.

But look, a lot of designers pull FUCKING HUGE AMOUNTS OF TRAFFIC to their blog or portfolio site by giving something away for free. Maybe a white paper or some free fonts or free website templates or whatever. Most of the people who DL whatever they're giving away for free never become customers but if what you're offering is considered of high value then you will get talked about. Maybe talked about a lot. You'll be that guy, the guy with the OOP wrapper class set that made it super easy for thousands of designers to implement animated slides that have become all the rage on everyone's' websites since you made it so easy for people to implement.

And that sort of attention attracts people with money.

If the middle-man sites are going to gouge you for 40% anyway, you may as well give it away and write it off as a marketing expense.

Scooter

Yea, just having it as something to put on your resume may be the best value, and it's more valuable if lots of people use it.

Of course, I have no idea how much cash money something like this would even be worth.

Viscountalpha

Jasconius wrote: »

Ultrashock is... interesting. You'd think they were loading the entire DB into Flex every time you hit a page.

Ultrashock is probably in my top 10 of "Sites that completely abuse Flash for no reason at all".

*edit*

turns out that site you linked starts at *60%*, and only goes down to 50% with exclusivity until you hit big numbers at which it troughs at 40%.... absolutely bananas.

I should really just expand my service. I'd make a killing at 20% commission.

I'm about to acquire some server hardware. I think I know what I need to host now.

flatlinegraphics

Szechuanosaurus wrote: »

This is completely not what you're asking for but I'm going to throw it out as a suggestion, not even necessarily a 'I think this is the best idea, use my idea, I'm awesome' suggestion, just as a 'how about, have you thought of maybe' suggestion.

Give it away for free. I know, it's nuts. I can't even believe I'm saying it. Me, the guy who would defend copyright against a horde of pirate zombies with nothing but a spork if it came down to it. The guy who makes a hobby of cruising the streets at night looking for designers who do free pitch work to murder and dump their bodies in the Firth of Forth.

But look, a lot of designers pull FUCKING HUGE AMOUNTS OF TRAFFIC to their blog or portfolio site by giving something away for free. Maybe a white paper or some free fonts or free website templates or whatever. Most of the people who DL whatever they're giving away for free never become customers but if what you're offering is considered of high value then you will get talked about. Maybe talked about a lot. You'll be that guy, the guy with the OOP wrapper class set that made it super easy for thousands of designers to implement animated slides that have become all the rage on everyone's' websites since you made it so easy for people to implement.

And that sort of attention attracts people with money.

If the middle-man sites are going to gouge you for 40% anyway, you may as well give it away and write it off as a marketing expense.

this is not a terribly bad idea. start making several components, or break some of the configs out to different components. give one or two away and sell the rest. free brings in traffic, use brings in more. make sure they have to sign up with a real email address first, and you start to build a marketing list, and can start offering your paid options. build a blog with how-to's, info on integrating it, etc.

plus, once its out there, this is a resume thing too. 'oh, YOU made componentXYZ?! thats great...".

also, some of the stock sites will sell components and fla's. no idea about what the commission is.