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Pixel art stickers
- Youpinadi 14y agoWhat do you think?
- MojoJolo 14y agoI like it! Pretty awesome designs. I like the spiderman sticker in the homepage.
- Youpinadi 14y agoThanks!
- Roritharr 14y agoPretty Nice designs, but i find the price a little bit too high considering that your designs are so minimalistic that you are competing with 5mins of Photoshop(to recreate an image) and 3$ of sticker printing paper. Nonetheless i'll probably order a few for our glass doors in the office.
- gabma 14y agoAt least it's not made in China, think a bit about that! ;)
- Youpinadi 14y agoWe propose 40 colors, which is pretty hard to find when you try to do a DYI pixel art with photoshop. Also the stickers we propose are high quality vinyl (which is repositionnable). I often see guys do home made pixel arts and Stickaz is just here to make their life easier and their designs cooler!
- Floopsy 14y agoThat's pretty cool. I like it.
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- mapster 14y agocool
- madlag 14y agoDo you have some really LARGE ones ? I just want to restart some post-it war with more modern ammo ;-)
- Youpinadi 14y agoWe have some large ones! Also you can choose the size of your pixels (up to 5cm), which can make even models with few pixels pretty big!
- pfisch 14y agoSo...if I start selling stuff on ebay, does that make me a "start-up"? I'm pretty sure you are a couple of guys who setup a wordpress site with a generic theme on a shared server. Also it seems to be having trouble handling the small amount of traffic that comes from 5am hacker news.
- Smudge 14y agoAt least they have a business model. How many "start-ups" on HN are just a fancy landing page with an email sign-up box?
- brador 14y agoCustomer acquisition to juicy exit is still a business model. Might not be as easy to grasp as pay me X for Y, but It's still a business model.
- batista 14y agoActually it's more of a scam than a business model, only made possible because of the BS bubble. Lot's of people are gonna be seriously hit a la 1999 until this scheme fades out.
- Youpinadi 14y agoWell we are really 4 french guys, we are located in Paris in a small office. This is not a wordpress, but a prestashop and the theme is not generic. And the stuff that is innovative is that all the products are created by the community using the studio (http://www.stickaz.com/en/studio http://www.stickaz.com/en/studio). Have a look at http://www.stickaz.com/en/info http://www.stickaz.com/en/info for more infos about the Stickaz concept. Tell me if you find similar businesses (appart from sites that let's you decline an image on mugs or t-shirts). Hope you look at it with a different angle :) PS: we know puxxle, we existed before them and there's no user generated content on puxxle.
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- gatekeepr 14y agoSo I guess you are familiar with the french street art artist Invader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invader http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invader)
- gabma 14y agoit seems so! :)
- stevenrace 14y agoSo are the 'classic' sprites public domain? I'm sure the other characters are some minor variation of the original - but it leaves me wondering if copyright has a lower threshold/bound in terms of resolution? In a 7x7 grid theres still a lot of variations (2^49?) - ranging down to the 'single pixel' works of early 20th century avant-garde monochromatic paintings. Anyhow, neat product and I'm sure even a lawsuit from Midway/Atari would be good press.
- skymt 14y agoThere's one case I recall that's close enough. A couple years ago there was a chiptune cover album of the Miles Davis classic Kind of Blue, complete with a pixel-art version of the cover. The photographer of the original cover art sued over the pixelized version. You can read the whole story here: http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/ http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
- nagrom 14y agoIt's very pretty, and I'll likely buy some. But oh-my-gosh is your server slow! Having to wait 60s between page loads is stopping me from exploring your collection and buying stuff. You need to fix the speed issue, because it's costing you money, right now.
- Axsuul 14y agoCould be that they are in France :)
- nagrom 14y agoIt shouldn't take so long to get from the UK to France though, eh? ;-)
- nicholassmith 14y agoOr the Hacker News effect strikes again.
- blaze33 14y agoCurrently in Paris : on average ~5s to load a page.
- grumpygremlin 14y agoFuck off.
- uniclaude 14y agoI like the idea, and the website looks good. However, the website is very slow, I don't know much about your tech team, but IMHO this is something you should investigate if you want to increase your conversion rate. Good Luck.
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- DeusExMachina 14y agoYou might want to know that in Italian the name of your startup reads (and sounds) quite badly.
- carlob 14y agoI think they know, otherwise they wouldn't have this: "It all starts with the kaz" prominently featured here http://www.stickaz.com/en/info http://www.stickaz.com/en/info
- brador 14y agoExplanation for those who don't speak Italian?
- carlob 14y agoKaz sounds a lot like cazzo which means dick. 'Sti cazzi' is a common phrase that is used to express lack of interest in central Italy (who gives a flying fuck!) or amazement in northern Italy (holy shit!).
- Youpinadi 14y agoWe are sorry if we have offended he italians (especially the ones from the center). It's pretty hard to come up with a name that has no meaning anywhere. If we have enough success, maybe Stickaz will mean "pixel art stickers" in Italy later! Like the Nintendo Wii ;)
- quicksilver03 14y agoItalian here (living in Paris BTW): I don't think you've offended anybody, it's just that the name sounds really bad in Italian. Naming products for an international market is quite difficult: in the 90s Sega tried to sell their game consoles into the Italian market and failed miserably because (my interpretation) nobody wanted to publicize that he bought a product whose name means "masturbation". The Nissan Pajero is another example, they had to rename it Montero in some Spanish-speaking countries.
- carlob 14y agoI noticed some problems with English version (e.g. each is singular), you might want to have a professional check that for you.
- Youpinadi 14y agoThanks for the input, we will fix it!
- jnardiello 14y agoThe name in italian sounds hilarious. Awesome
- mikeknoop 14y agoSomething random I wanted over the weekend: drop-shipping stickers. Let me set up an account and order stickers via an API given a customer address.
- mydpy 14y agoCareful -- Atlus got sued for their game 3D Dot Game Heroes (which was fantastic) over copyright-infringing user-generated avatars. This seems eerily similar.
- sarbogast 14y agoYour model is excellent. I love it. It's simple, it looks good, and contrary to what others said, you actually have a pretty innovative business model with the possibility to sell crowdsourced designs. But if I were you, I'd make it more interesting for graphics guys. The real innovation would be to do a 70-30 cut like for iPhone apps. If it worked economically, even if it merely covered your costs, it would attract much better designers and many more buyers that would also buy your own designs on which you could make more profit. You're solving a real problem here: geek decoration. Be more ambitious about it!
- csaba 14y agoI tried this out. I think it is really good idea, but really bad implementation. I wanted to draw something, and save it. But I had to login first. If you log in, you lost your drawing. Then I redraw it from scratch, then clicked on the save, and the server went down, so again, lost everything. Sometimes the cursor draws without any click, and ruins all your previous work, and you can't turn it off (maybe a bug). Then I tried other way. What if I just draw a small part, and save it? Before save it automatically cropped my pic for best fit (if you resize your drawing area, you lost everything). So, for about the tenth time, I finally finished my "nyan cat", and published it, to see what's gonna happen? Some time after, I got an email, that they refused to publish it, and gave me some bullsh*t (one or more of the following) reasons. So one, or more? Why don't they tell me specifically? And some of the reasons were hurtful for someone, who tried so hard to finish something. Anyway... As I sad before, I like the idea, but the implementation is pretty flawed, and painfully slow.
- fufulabs 14y agoWe built an app thats scarily similar in spirit to this. its at http://tiny.by http://tiny.by Pretty cool coincidence
- matthiasb 14y agoExit through the gift shop...