Pixel art stickers

I 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).<p>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.<p>Anyway... As I sad before, I like the idea, but the implementation is pretty flawed, and painfully slow.

So 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?<p>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.<p>Anyhow, neat product and I'm sure even a lawsuit from Midway/Atari would be good press.

It's very pretty, and I'll likely buy some.<p>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.

So I guess you are familiar with the french street art artist Invader (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invader" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invader</a>)

You might want to know that in Italian the name of your startup reads (and sounds) quite badly.

Your 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!

Careful -- Atlus got sued for their game 3D Dot Game Heroes (which was fantastic) over copyright-infringing user-generated avatars. This seems eerily similar.

Something 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.

Do you have some really LARGE ones ? I just want to restart some post-it war with more modern ammo ;-)

I like the idea, and the website looks good.<p>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.<p>Good Luck.

We built an app thats scarily similar in spirit to this. its at <a href="http://tiny.by" rel="nofollow">http://tiny.by</a> Pretty cool coincidence

I noticed some problems with English version (e.g. each is singular), you might want to have a professional check that for you.

That's pretty cool. I like it.

So...if I start selling stuff on ebay, does that make me a "start-up"?<p>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.

What do you think?

The name in italian sounds hilarious. Awesome

Exit through the gift shop...

cool