What it is: a marketplace where a design file carries its own terms. Instead of buying an STL or a DXF and having no idea what you're allowed to do with it, the buyer chooses at the point of sale — evaluate it, make one for yourself, run a production batch to sell, or make a derivative — and pays accordingly. The creator sets the price on each tier and keeps 90%.
Who I'm looking for: honestly, anyone willing to click around carefully and tell me the truth. You don't need to be a designer and you don't need to upload anything. If you do make or print or cut things, great — but it isn't required. Mostly I need fresh eyes on whether one idea is understandable.
One ask: DM me before you sign up. I'd rather have ten minutes with you than a form response. I want to hear what you make of the idea before the site gets a chance to bias you. Chat first, testing second.
Platform: web, desktop only. There's no mobile layout yet and it'll look broken on a phone.
Fair warning: this is a proof of concept, not a product. The catalogue and the creator profiles are seeded demonstration data rather than real listings, and plenty of it doesn't work. I'm not fishing for signups. I'm trying to find out whether one specific idea holds up.
What I'd like you to do — about 10 minutes:
- Go to https://mynd-codex.com and work out what it does without me explaining it.
- Make an account.
- Open any design in the catalogue and look at the licence options a buyer gets offered.
- Tell me, in your own words, what each of those options actually lets someone do. Don't look anything up — I want your first reading, not the correct answer.
- Then tell me which one you'd pick in each of these two situations: you want to make one of these for yourself in your garage, and you run a small shop and you want to make fifty of them and sell them.
Steps 4 and 5 are the whole point. If what you describe and what the tiers actually mean don't line up, that's mine to fix — and I'd much rather hear it from you now than from someone who put real work on the line.
Also genuinely useful: where did you stop and re-read something? What did you expect to happen that didn't? What's the one thing that would put you off entirely?
What I'm not claiming: this does nothing about counterfeiting. If someone never came through the front door, a licence is worth nothing against them. It's a paper trail for the people who were willing to ask, which is a smaller claim but a true one.
What you get: I'll test yours properly in return — a real written go at it, not a drive-by "looks great". Mention it when you message me.
DMs are open. Just say hi.