I’m pretty sure this topic has been brought up before, but I’ve had a lot of requests recently from developers who want to create “developer” templates with some of my products and resell them here at ThemeForest. They don’t want to steal my designs or anything like that – these would be collaborative projects and both authors would get credit/profit.
Specifically, they’d like to take the raw HTML and convert them over to ASP /PHP/RUBY/etc and then release them as separate products. I have my own opinions on this sort of thing (which I can share below), but I’d very much like to hear from the community:
1) Is there even a demand for this sort of “developer” template?
2) Is there a clear-cut way to upload these into the marketplace?
3) Do pre-developed templates (meaning, the HTML has been modularized and coded into PHP /ASP/etc.) offer a value to developers, or is it more of a headache to have to start with someone else’s code (assuming that there are several ways that a developer might package these)?
Some concerns I can see right off the bat:
a) it would require a substantially more complex review process.
b) support for these products would be exponentially harder than offering support for an HTML /CSS template – or even a Wordpress template.
c) most programmers would prefer to just do it themselves according to the specifications of each project.
All comments, ideas, concerns, arguments, etc. are welcome here 
I’ll note that I am not necessarily supporting this idea, or asking for it as a new feature – I’m just gauging what people’s thoughts on it are since I’ve been asked this several times in the last 2 weeks.
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