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This reminds me a lot of Threadless' model. If you haven't heard of them, check them out. I know their focus is on t-shirts, but the format is almost identical.

This reminds me a lot of Threadless' model. If you haven't heard of them, check them out. I know their focus is on t-shirts, but the format is almost identical. The thing you need to consider is, if these designs are made available for purchase, who will produce them? Will the creator be in charge of all of the shipments? How will these orders be fulfilled? Might I suggest a Kickstarter approach? Let users pledge to a design, if a certain pledge goal is reached, you would take a cut, and liability lies completely with the designer to produce the design. This, to me, would make things a lot easier on your end, as well as increase the value of feedback. Money is the best way to measure popularity. Let me know what you think, I really want to see where this all goes.

anujkk 15y ago
I know many similar sites such as threadless or myntra.com(India) which are quite popular but they are limited in sense that they deal in t-shirts etc only and their designs are just about adding some text or image on t-shirt. What I am talking about is full-fledged designs by fashion designers. It includes not only t-shirts but also other designs for females. Putting up a site will not be a problem. The real problem will be dealing with product life cycle after taking the orders. i.e. who will manufacture the apparel(product)? What will be the minimum order required? Who will ship it? How much time will it take? etc.
- andrewguenther 15y ago
  I feel like the designer should be in charge of making the product. You website should simply serve as a way for them to get the design out there. Again, I think taking notes from Kickstarter would be good here. Let the designer decide how many pledges they want before they will produce. Once this number of pledges has been reached, you take a cut. Then all of the shipping information for the pledgers is passed from you to the designer and they are in charge of filling the orders.

anujkk 15y ago

I know many similar sites such as threadless or myntra.com(India) which are quite popular but they are limited in sense that they deal in t-shirts etc only and their designs are just about adding some text or image on t-shirt. What I am talking about is full-fledged designs by fashion designers. It includes not only t-shirts but also other designs for females. Putting up a site will not be a problem. The real problem will be dealing with product life cycle after taking the orders. i.e. who will manufacture the apparel(product)? What will be the minimum order required? Who will ship it? How much time will it take? etc.

andrewguenther 15y ago
I feel like the designer should be in charge of making the product. You website should simply serve as a way for them to get the design out there. Again, I think taking notes from Kickstarter would be good here. Let the designer decide how many pledges they want before they will produce. Once this number of pledges has been reached, you take a cut. Then all of the shipping information for the pledgers is passed from you to the designer and they are in charge of filling the orders.