My first suggestion would be to figure out how to market the hell out of this. There are some really great Photoshop plugins out there that I've seen pop up on HN maybe once or twice at most and I've spoken to designer friends in person who have never heard of them. The first step would be to look into advertising on the design blogs and sites like http://beautifulpixels.com/. You might then look into a sponsored post on DaringFireball or similar site (from what I've heard, the ROI on his posts is pretty good).
You have the url as www.confinder.com there ;)
Was it difficult building the plugin for photoshop ?
I ask because I have been toying with building a photoshop plugin for handling feedback on designs. i.e. the plugin allows you to upload a design to a website where customers can comment. The plugin would allow you to view the comments from within Photoshop.
- Occasionally when a panel starts, the wrapper from Adobe that loads in your extension will be incorrectly sized... which leaves the panel with a giant white space at the bottom. To fix it, increment then decrement the height by one to get it to recalculate its size.
- On CS5.0 (only), the panel is rendered darker than it should be (so if you set the background color to the color the SDK tells you it is, you'll end up something that doesn't match up with the Photoshop UI (this might be mx:HTML specific).
- On CS6, mx:HTML causes a hard Photoshop crash sometimes (no idea why, it's blackbox). Posted on Adobe Forums... no one seems to know.
TL;DR: Barrier of entry is low. Strange issues make it hard. Sadly many of them are out of your control as a 3rd-party developer.
Debugging things within AIR was easy though, and although I had near-nil prior experience with actionscript my javascript background got me up and running right away.
I've definitely found myself hoping for more detail / product information. While this looks well-implemented I wonder if it won't take me a step further away from what I'm buying, which is the reverse of what I want.
Personally I read what it could do and downloaded.
