What Should Change About CodeCanyon

Hey Jeffrey,

Personally, I find the general functioning of CodeCanyon to be very decent, both for sellers and buyers. It’s been working for me very well since becoming a member over a year ago.

As an author, personally I’d like to see the following:

• Active and ongoing development on the API (features such as viewing referral stats, better authentication for verifying purchases like typing in their member code rather than product, then viewing all the products they have purchased).
• Notification badge to show number of unread comments (as per my mock up in another topic)
• Integrated analytics onto our dashboard so we don’t have to log in to a separate site.
• More transparency on the site development. Let me explain this one: There are lots of ideas and feature requests floating around on various topics in the forums. It would be great to see all these requests put into a long list, where any member can view a maybe add their comments or ‘thumbs up’ it. As a basic tool, http://interstateapp.com would be cool to show what you guys are working on or what you have in the pipeline.

As an extra, purely luxury feature, the ability to ‘ping’ a URL when a comment has been made would be so awesome. For example, some comments on your item, you ping a URL of our choosing with some POST data such as the product ID, then we can manipulate this data how we want, whether to fire off an email, send a tweet, add it to our support tickets, or add it to our support forums. I know a lot of people have their own support forums, and this would give them the option to easily import comments into their/our own apps.

All of us at CodeCanyon are technically minded, and having a feature like this would be a super duper bonus. If I look at it from your point of view, it would require extra bandwidth, but it would be quite minimal, and would also mean we don’t have to keep scanning our comments RSS feed to find out if we have a comment. So it could work out as actually saving bandwidth.

I wouldn’t say any of these changes are that important, but would definitley assist me as an author, and I’d like to think other authors would benefit from these too.

Hope this helps

I think CC could use better organization of items so they may go into multiple categories. For example, in the Apps categories there are Windows and Mac subcategories, but if an App can run in both Widows and Mac (AIR) the App will not show up in neither.

I also noticed this in all market places where items should really be listed in two different categories for various reasons, but they’re only listed in one.

I never really thought about having an item in 2 different categories but that would help me alot… i have a iOS product thats mostly PHP , but i put it in iOS because i could only pick one.

I think you should also refer to this post from “Reaper-Media” http://codecanyon.net/forums/thread/who-purchased-my-items/47663?page=4#441596

Update to the API would be sweet and please, please i beg for the analytics.envato.com to be included in the main site…

Ow, and something else… a easer way to upgrade licences.. i have had some people want to upgrade but i have never had the money… i dont know why but my guess is they cant be bothered to contact support and get it done.

Im sure the are lost more but this is all i cant think of at the moment.

I was going to say rollover previews for Plugins category but I see it’s already here.. good job!

What really needs to be fixed is the More Items by … in the bottom of the page.

For example mine shows items from AD from an eternity ago….....

If it’s not possible to show the most popular items there, at least from the same marketplace would be cool.

If you update an item, it shouldn’t have to be reviewed again. Integrated analytics onto our dashboard would be great.

It would be cool if customers could receive a unique serial number when buying a certain item. Customers can then enter this serial number when activating the Wordpress plugin or php script. The script can then contact the codecanyon servers to check if it’s a valid serial number to avoid piracy. The developer would have to code this into his/her plugin, I’m not expecting the reviewers to do that This should be an optional feature for developers because not everyone wants this.

Oh, and I’d like more sales!

RikdeVos said
If you update an item, it shouldn’t have to be reviewed again.

I +1 this, but perhaps add the stipulation that only authors that have sold a certain amount get access to this feature, that way limiting it to “trusted” authors.

As said above several times, I’d also really love to see integrated analytics.

Perhaps also the ability to browse by tags. Perhaps a sidebar widget that would allow you to select each of the tags you’d like to search in.

Also, the new search isn’t nearly as good as the old one. You can’t search in the forums anymore from the main search. I loved that feature because a lot of times someone would post something useful in the forums and I want to come back later and find it.

dtbaker said
Author only forum++

+1

Here are the three that came to my mind quickly.

• Author Only Forum (could be used to gather beta testers, etc)
• Integrated Analytics (two different sites are a pain)
• A way to our clients to find out if a file has been updated (generic across Envato)