Credit system or not, having live sales and stats is a must. The values can be adjusted latter if needed. The system has to be live and automatic. All other sites are live and automatic so there are no excuses.

We would do marketing like a typical stock agency and attract customers by having the best content from contributors. Giving contributors the ability to set prices should also mean that you can calculate your margins and make more money per sale on our site while potentially charging less.

That doesn't sound like much of a plan. 2 things:

1. Even if you do attract the best content and contributors, why do you think any buyer would go to you instead of keep going to Shutterstock, Istock, AdobeStock or even Dreamstime? How will they even find out about your agency? And the ones who do, how will they be convinced to come and buy stuff when they already have the best content available on mentioned agencies? Why is it so hard for many new agency founders to understand that getting buyers is not a piece of cake.

2. You thought that you just have to win over contributors and the rest will go smoothly. Just content in today's microstock will get you nowhere because it's already available, and contributors know that, so even if you have the best contributor platform ever, pretty much nobody will put their work there just because of that. One and only way to win over contributors is to present a strong marketing plan or background, not to build cool features. It's all about getting buyers, so you just have to have strong marketing. That's the very reason why agencies exist - they are supposed to have experts and funds to run a successful marketing campaign. Some original idea or feature for buyers wouldn't hurt either. Do you have any of those things? Since you've already said what's your plan, I guess you don't.

On the one hand, I would like another successful stock site which would give us a good income.

But on the other hand, even with the best marketing, why on earth would anybody "buy their tokens"? You need some really blind trust or stupidity to just give some new agency your money for something which can easily be just imaginary / non existent. And if it's real, it's still 100% under this startup company's control. Why would anybody give their money for that? I know I wouldn't.

OneShamelessPixel.com would be appropriate name for this pathetic agency.

Do these people even realize how much they underrate our intelligence, or their heads are stuck up too deep in their asses?

Why should I contribute to Onepixel ?

More income for Onepixel Contributors
Onepixel only sources content from a much lower number of stock contributors than other platforms, which is why the extra income generated by each Onepixel Contributor will be significantly higher.

Contributors who are approved early receive better indexation and promotion in the collection.

Industry standard commissions - 35%

They are new but they already treat stockers like tools with 0 IQ. They must think they are extremely smart. Tossers indeed...

Earnings are calculated for each month. The catch is the same like on Shutterstock - you pay tax on sales made to US buyers. This is why your payment gets reduced for some amount.

More often then not, whenever some agency presents the "exciting news" it's actually bad for contributors, but they still tend to label it "exciting" like we are all a bunch of morons. What are the worst "exciting news" ever on any agency?

And were there ever some "exciting news" which are actually good for contributors?

I know. As I've said, submitting now is too early. The question is why they need the content now? Why they reward with 100% the content submitted until the May 1st? Why not until (much) latter?

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And how can we withdraw dollars or euros to Paypal / Payoneer or our bank account?

I think you should enable converting Stocken to dollar / euro directly on your site.


edit: Also, I don't know who on Earth will be willing to buy Stocken. You would need a powerful marketing for that.

We are leaning towards the option to allow dollar conversions and withdrawals on our website for larger amounts only (e.g. above $100) available at any time. For smaller amounts, we will allow conversions to ethers, bitcoins and other major cryptocurrencies.

You will gain more contributors if you allow conversions and withdrawals for as low amount as possible. That's important, especially for a new site. Canva allows withdrawals from as low as $2.

Have they dropped the $2 fee for lower withdrawals?

No they didn't.

And how can we withdraw dollars or euros to Paypal / Payoneer or our bank account?

I think you should enable converting Stocken to dollar / euro directly on your site.


edit: Also, I don't know who on Earth will be willing to buy Stocken. You would need a powerful marketing for that.

Semmick Photo said that he will post his code if he makes it work. Then he made it work but he didn't post the code. Very nice...

I'm not a coder so I can't follow Sean Locke's instructions. I tried to edit Sean Locke's script for the thumbnails on Canva but without success. Here is his script:
// ==UserScript==
// @name        CV_showThumbnail
// @namespace   canva
// @include     [url]https://www.canva.com/sales[/url]*
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

function showThumbs() {

var linkObjs = [];
for (var j= 0;j<document.links.length;j++)
if (document.links[j].hostname===location.hostname) {
str = document.links[j].href;
if (str.match(/media/g))
linkObjs.push(document.links[j]);
}
ajaxStream = new Array();

table = document.getElementsByClassName('list')[0];
thead = table.getElementsByTagName("tr")[0];
label = document.createElement('th');
thead.appendChild(label);
label.innerHTML = "Thumb";
label.setAttribute('width', "60px");

for (var j= 0;j<linkObjs.length;j++){
myDataUrl = (linkObjs[j].href);
// make a new ajax object
ajaxStream[0] = new ajaxObj();
// pass the url from the 'a' object in the child node, and the linkObj
ajaxStream[0].makeRequest(myDataUrl, linkObjs[j], addThumbnailImage);
}

tcell = table.getElementsByTagName("td");
for (var j= 0;j<tcell.length;j++){
if (tcell[j].innerHTML == "   Multi Use   ") {
tcell[j].style.backgroundColor = "#bbffbb";
}
}

}

function addThumbnailImage(text, status, elementToChange) {
if (text == "") return;
div=document.createElement('div');
  div.innerHTML=text;
var imgs = div.getElementsByTagName('img');
for (var j= 0;j<imgs.length;j++) {
if(imgs[j].id == "mainImage") {
tr = elementToChange.parentNode.parentNode;
td = document.createElement('td');
td.setAttribute('width', "60px");

tr.appendChild(td);
img = document.createElement('img');
img.setAttribute('width', "60px");

imgSrc = imgs[j].src.replace("screen","thumbnail");
img.setAttribute('src', imgSrc);
td.appendChild(img);
return;
}
}
}

window.onload = showThumbs();

function ajaxObj() {

this.requestObject;
this.elementToChange;
this.makeRequest = function(url, elementToChange, onResponse) {
// trying to stop weird exception
if ((url=="") || (url==null)) {
if (elementToChange)
elementToChange.innerHTML = ("<center>N/A | N/A</center>");
return;
}
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {                     // Does this browser have an XMLHttpRequest object?
this.requestObject=new XMLHttpRequest();                    // Yes -- initialize it.
} else {                                         // No, try to initialize it IE style
this.requestObject=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");  //  Wheee, ActiveX, how do we format c: again?
}                                                // End setup Ajax.
if (this.requestObject==null) {                                // If we couldn't initialize Ajax...
      alert("Your browser doesn't support AJAX.");  // Sorry msg.                                               
      return false;                                  // Return false, couldn't set up ajax
    }
this.requestObject.onreadystatechange = function() {                      // When the browser has the request info..
    switch (this.readyState) {
case 1:
// if (elementToChange)
// elementToChange.innerHTML = ("Starting");
break;
case 2:
// if (elementToChange)
// elementToChange.innerHTML = ("Requesting");
break;
case 3:
// if (elementToChange)
// elementToChange.innerHTML = ("Processing");
break;
default:
      onResponse(this.responseText, this.readyState, elementToChange);             // Pass the response to our processing function
    }
}   
this.requestObject.open("GET",url,true);
this.requestObject.send(null);
}
}




So can somebody make the script for BS and share it here?