Superhive Roadmap

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Sorting functions on product lists within orders

Lists of products on single order views can be long. If we added clickable sorting functions at the top of those lists, customers could more easily find specific products and navigate their orders.

"For you" personalized page for customers

The idea is to create a new top level page which shows unique content for each individual user. If logged out, it prompts the visitor to login and see their recommendations. When logged in, users will see content personalized for them based on their history.
Examples of personalizations:
Products related to your purchase history
Products from your browsing history
Products you've purchase which have available upgrades
Products from creators you follow (see Follow Creator)

Automatic followup emails asking customers for product reviews

Creators could potentially be getting a lot more reviews on their products if we sent out requests for reviews some time after purchase.

Provide creators with a way to put product description content in columns

Currently our content editor for products does not permit creators to use Bootstrap classes on their HTML. Some creators have requested the ability to use some Bootstrap classes in order to present their content in columns.

VAT

Add support for VAT to Blender Market.

Allow creators to specify file order

Creators would like to be able to dictate the order that product files appear in on the downloads page in order to make it easier and more clear for customers to know what order to download things in.

Allow creators to control email send time

Creators right now cannot schedule emails to send at a later time. They have valid reasons for desiring the functionality such as timing the emails in sync with product releases, for example.

Allow customers to control which creators they receive email alerts from

At this time, customers can subscribe to updates from creators and creators can email customers who are subscribed. But it is all or nothing. Customers cannot pick and choose which creators to subscribe to in this way.

Allow creators to specify FAQ order

Creators would like to be able to rearrange the order of the FAQs they include on their product pages. We have no mechanism for reordering at this time.

Add ability to easily link images in product editor

Linking images is difficult and it shouldn't be.

Email customers when wish listed products have price changes

Customers can currently add products to a private "wish list", accessible within their accounts. These lists represent products the customers are considering purchasing but haven't followed through yet.
We could potentially turn a lot of those wish listed items into completed sales if we sent email alerts to customers whenever the prices for those products changes.

AI product description writing tool

Creating the product page is a challenging task for creators. It takes a lot of effort and skill to create a well written, compelling page for each product. Not all creators are experts in writing sales copy, or even writing English for that matter.
What if we made it easier for creators by giving them a tool which accepts prompts (like a technical, sloppy product description) and generates a readable, error free, customer friendly product description?
Creators would not only save time, but potentially end up with a better pages as a result, especially creators who do not natively speak english.
We could benefit from better product pages across our site resulting in a better overall image and potentially better conversions.

Provide creators with a way to preview their emails to customers

Creators can design and send custom emails to their subscribed customers. However, we do not currently offer any way for creators to preview the email before sending.
I could see this being accomplished by either adding a new preview view and/or a way to send a test version to the email author.

2FA login

For increased security purposes, we could introduce two factor authentication. This would be most important for admin users but definitely valuable to creators and affiliates.

Blender Market gift cards

There's potential for stimulating sales with the introduction of some kind of gift-card-like system.

Allow affiliates to offer discounts

Affiliates get a percentage of each qualifying sale. What if approved affiliates could, at their own discretion, offer special discounts on their affiliated products? They could only discount up to the % amount they earn, but it would still be a real discount and exclusive to the given affiliate.
It would give affiliates more control and flexibility when it comes to promoting products and could generate more sales for creators.

Allow creators to opt out of new sale notifications for free products

Many creators would appreciate having more control over which new sale notifications they receive. In particular, being able to opt out of emails specifically for free products has been requested.
Exact solution remains TBD. This could be a toggle specifically pertaining to emails for $0 products. Or we could introduce a pre-product setting so creators could specify exactly which products they want to receive alerts for, regardless of their price.

Provide creators with analytics reports

It would be impactful for creators if we were able to show them stats pertaining to their product pages like:
Visits
Time on page
Bounces
Exits
Conversion rate
Search terms
Previous pages
Subsequent pages
And probably more than that. Savvy creators could do a LOT with that information.
I'd also go so far as to say that it would be good for US and the BM community if more people had critical eyes on these stats.
Which metrics we can realistically provide is unclear but we would like to figure out what is possible and share anything we can with creators.

Add "Product Name - Variation" column to event list table in creator reports

Right now, the events list in creator reports only shows a column for product ID. Creators would appreciate being able to see the product name right there AND the variant (when applicable).

Expand creator Sales report page to break results up by product

https://blendermarket.com/creator/reports/sales
That reports page is currently only a cumulative total of all products. It would be a huge improvement for creators to be able to see it broken down by individual products.

"Out of office" feature for creator support

Creators sometimes wish they could communicate to customers that support will be delayed while they are out of office for one reason or another. It would be good for creators to be able to have some peace of mind while away from work. It would be good for customers to have realistic expectations and notice when creators won't be as responsive.

Store credit

We're looking in to the possibility of adding a feature on the marketplace which allows users to have a balance of virtual funds associated with their account. It is a popular feature on many other marketplaces, commonly referred to as "store credit" or "digital wallet". With this feature, users can make purchases using funds from their existing balance.

Creator controlled product bundles

This new feature would allow creators to introduce a new product which is a curated bundle of some (or all) of their other products, sold for one price.
Creators could use this to hand pick a group of related or complimentary products from their own portfolio and sell them together for a special rate.

Creator dashboard - Display a list of products you are collaborating on

TL;DR we should have some kind of feedback display, maybe on the creator dash or maybe somewhere else, where you can see products that you have been added as a collaborator to (via the edit product form). Right now you can as the creator of a product see what collaborators you've added, but there's no way for those collaborators to know themselves.

Show OS compatibility pre-purchase

Currently, we don't show customers anything about OS compatibility. However, some products do not fully work on all operating systems. We could introduce some new meta option for declaring compatibility.
I see it as an optional field for declaring incompatibility rather than compatibility because I think most products are OS agnostic. I don't want to introduce a new field which all creators suddenly need to fill out.

Product dependencies

Some products are essentially addons or extensions to other products and this is not something creators can easily communicate to potential buyers. Creators have requested the ability to link products so certain items can't be purchased without already owning a dependent item.

Offer advertising opportunities for creators

Creators have requested more ways to advertise their products. We could approach this a number of different ways.
Some options could include:
Banner ads
Sponsored listings
Social media posts
Emails
Quite possibly other options exist as well.

Connect product to GitHub

Exact feature scope TBD but it could be exciting to offer an integration of some kind with GitHub. Essentially this would allow for a connection to be established between an individual product and an individual GitHub repo.
This can accomplish a few things potentially:
Allow product file links to use a GitHub release instead of files on our S3, thereby eliminating the need for creators to download and upload their product files when they ship updates
Allow for the synchronization of markdown text from repo to product listing.
Enable the inviting of users to access GitHub repo. I like the idea of offering GitHub access as a perk, possibly only for higher tier license purchases.

Add support for WebP images

Some creators have requested this. And WebP could represent an opportunity to further reduce bandwidth and storage costs since the file sizes are lower.

Include creator username as product search field

Right now we include the product description, excerpt, title, tags, and categories as eligible fields used for building our search index. However, there are many occasions in which customers search by the name of the creator. Right now queries for "orange turbine" don't return Orange Turbine products because we do not include the creator name.

"Was this helpful?" reactions on reviews

Suggested feature: Allow readers to basically rate reviews by clicking some kind of yes/no or 👍/👎 options next to a "Was this review helpful?" prompt.

Make ratings/reviews indicate the version

Reasonably, creators have asked if a rating or review could show which version the customer was using. This can be important information for customers reading the reviews.

Progress bar for file uploads

Creators have complained that file uploads can sometimes take quite a while and we do not show any measure of upload status.