Before writing software, I have to test my prospective user base for the crowdsourcing service bureau. I don’t want to put the cart before the horse like I have done in the past! There are so many great things I can do in software, but I have to make sure people are going to use them. It’s a little cocky of me saying I am going to start a new hobby, so I need to do some crawling before I code in the dark for months.

I have been selling on eBay for eight years. I am afraid I suffer from tunnel vision as I keep thinking eBay is the best method to get the word out. There are other ways to promote my site and find designers interested in using my methods (Duh!). I would like to have a local group that gets together to talk about their designs but for now the Internet is easier to find people.

I am going to offer free rings in the forums for people that want to test out making some very simple rings. I will let people email ether grayscale pictures or 2D Rhino files. I also am going to let people snail mail rings designed on paper. Alone I think automated paper to finished silver ring is pretty darn cool. It’s very simple to do.

At some point I will offer a free ring a day to the best design submitted to the database.

So I will make a submission rules web page and post to these forums:

Art Jewelry Magazine Forums
Orchid Forums on Ganoksin.com
Rhino3D CAD Software Forums