Pixel art stickers

http://www.stickaz.com/en/17-invader

by Youpinadi • 14 years ago

89 49 14 years ago

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Youpinadi9• 14 years ago

What do you think?

MojoJolo• 14 years ago

I like it! Pretty awesome designs. I like the spiderman sticker in the homepage.

Youpinadi9• 14 years ago

Thanks!

Roritharr• 14 years ago

Pretty 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.

gabma2• 14 years ago

At least it's not made in China, think a bit about that! ;)

Youpinadi9• 14 years ago

We 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• 14 years ago

That's pretty cool. I like it.

mapster• 14 years ago

cool

madlag• 14 years ago

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

Youpinadi9• 14 years ago

We 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!

pfisch2• 14 years ago

So...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• 14 years ago

At least they have a business model. How many "start-ups" on HN are just a fancy landing page with an email sign-up box?

brador2• 14 years ago

Customer 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.

Youpinadi9• 14 years ago

Well 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). Have a look at 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.

pfisch2• 14 years ago

It definitely looks like wordpress, and it says it is wordpress and prestashop on the bottom. Also prestashop looks like it is just an ecommerce plugin.

Did you guys take VC money or something? This just looks like a normal business to me. I mean I run a small business that makes mobile apps. Is that a start up as well? Is any kind of business with a website that sells something a start up?

pan69• 14 years ago

What pfisch is saying, selling stuff on the Internet is not a startup. E.g. if I'm starting a flower shop business, that's not a startup, that's just starting a business.

The difference between a startup and a business is that a startup is usually trying to solve a problem (often through the use of technology, a.k.a. hi-tech) in the hope that the "invention" pays off. These sorts of high risk businesses often don't get loans from banks. That's where investors come in.

So, as pfisch is saying, selling stickers on the Internet is not a startup.

I hope you guys do well. It looks like a well executed project.

replicatorblog• 14 years ago

Awesome stuff - I write for Wired.com and would love to do a post on this - I sent you an email, let me know if you're interested.

ryanx435• 14 years ago

It really depends on how you define "start-up".

eric ries, in his book The Lean Startup, defines it as follows:

"A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty."

so lets see. Is this website a human institution? Probably. If its not, it certainly passed the Turing test.

Is it designed to create a new product or service? not really. Its selling stickers that the user has the ability to customize. This isn't all that new or original of a concept.

Is it doing so under extreme uncertainty? I would say not. This is selling a product that there is already known demand for. It is not extremely uncertain if there is a market for their product.

So my 2 cents is that this is not a "start up" but rather merely a new web business. Still, good for them! May the Force be with them, and may they find beautiful solutions to their problems.

Youpinadi9• 14 years ago

Hehe nice analysis! Basically i just used the word "startup" because for me it just means having great ambitions and try to do them with a few people (in a web world).

gatekeepr• 14 years ago

So I guess you are familiar with the french street art artist Invader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invader)

gabma2• 14 years ago

it seems so! :)

stevenrace• 14 years ago

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?

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• 14 years ago

There'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/

nagrom2• 14 years ago

It'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.

Axsuul2• 14 years ago

Could be that they are in France :)

nagrom2• 14 years ago

It shouldn't take so long to get from the UK to France though, eh? ;-)

nicholassmith• 14 years ago

Or the Hacker News effect strikes again.

blaze33• 14 years ago

Currently in Paris : on average ~5s to load a page.

uniclaude2• 14 years ago

I 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.

DeusExMachina• 14 years ago

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

carlob3• 14 years ago

I think they know, otherwise they wouldn't have this:

"It all starts with the kaz" prominently featured here

http://www.stickaz.com/en/info

brador2• 14 years ago

Explanation for those who don't speak Italian?

carlob3• 14 years ago

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

Youpinadi9• 14 years ago

Thanks for the input, we will fix it!

jnardiello• 14 years ago

The name in italian sounds hilarious. Awesome

mikeknoop• 14 years ago

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.

mydpy• 14 years ago

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

sarbogast• 14 years ago

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!

csaba• 14 years ago

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).

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• 14 years ago

We built an app thats scarily similar in spirit to this. its at http://tiny.by Pretty cool coincidence

matthiasb• 14 years ago

Exit through the gift shop...

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