You can now pay for your stock photo keywords, captions, storage and distribution with Bitcoin.
The price is the same as via Paypal/Moneybookers, at 1 US cent per credit, and pre-sized packages are available at $5, $10, $20, $40 and $100.
I’ve been following Bitcoin for a while, but not yet sure how good the payment processors are going to be long-term. I’m with Coinbase for now to test the waters but you can pay from any wallet provider (or your own wallet of course) as part of Coinbase’s checkout process (i.e. you don’t need a Coinbase account). Any problems, questions or whatever please let me know.
How are you liking Bitcoin?
Future of picWorkflow? Need your opinion
picWorkflow has been running now since 2011. In that time, the technology it’s built on has moved on, so I’m thinking what to do going forward and I really need your input.
The site just about makes enough to keep the servers up and running as-is, though they’re starting to age (we had some bumps last year as a result of them ageing). The more it ages, the more time it takes to maintain, but as picWorkflow is not my main income, it’s hard to schedule over paying work.
There are a few broad options available:
What’s the result?
Options 1 and 2 are basically change-free, interface won’t change but conditions might deteriorate.
Options 3 and 4 will certainly involve changes to the site’s interface to get used to, and would mean some promo content, new apps and ways of doing things. I like the pricing model at the moment so wouldn’t look to change the base 1c per upload or the captioning/keywording price models, but may look into additional opportunities (not just microstock) to support the cost of the extra time.
Based on site metrics and previous feedback, any new build would be limited initially to the batch-first image collections, FTP uploading, keywording and captioning services. I might be able to add support for automated submissions on some agency sites, though it’d be tough to maintain so I couldn’t guarantee at this point (so also still no model release support).
I’m not hugely committed to any particular option at the moment, I think the site deserves a rebuild but it’s pretty much down to feedback on what I’m going to do with it. I can find a month of dev time over the next six months or so, which is enough to sort out any of the options listed.
What would you prefer?
Any questions, concerns, or things you’d specifically like to see (or not see) removed, replaced or improved?
Please comment below, or email bob@picWorkflow.com or contact me on @bobbigmac on twitter
The results are in
Thanks everyone who answered the poll and sent me feedback. It’s looking like refactor/rebuild are pretty balanced, though there’s some resistance to needing to learn a new UI.
I’ll do some tests over the coming weeks on the best way to approach and will post again when I’ve a plan set.
Thanks 🙂
Bob