Hey everyone,
I just wanted to present Scale to all of you.
Scale's promise is simple: One new high-quality, open-source illustration each day. Of course, absolutely FREE - no attribution required.
1. What's with that promise?
I learnt that Unsplash started with a tagline: "10 photos every 10 days". This made users more inquisitive about the next 10 photos, so I thought of borrowing a similar strategy in marketing :)
2. How is Scale built?
Almost entirely No-Code.
I detailed it in this tweet here: Tweet link.
3. What's special about Scale?
I felt that some of the existing platforms to find free illustrations didn't offer great quality illustrations. On Scale, each illustration has required a lot of work and has a high degree of detail.
Further, each illustration has a gender choice which can be selected using the filter at the top (I will be adding gender alternatives for some remaining illustrations too, starting tomorrow)
I plan to add a skin tone option as well, pretty soon.
I have covered the Hiring, Product building, Remote working and Insurance industries/categories. Next, am moving into Travel. I plan to cover many industries and then organise them as illustration packs too.
Closing thoughts
I do have many more ideas and really hope that Scale can be useful to you all. Do let me know your thoughts too :)
This is amazing! I'm always curious though every time I see this free illustrations websites - how do you plan to make money?
Great question :)
At this point in time, I am not trying to monetize Scale.
Once Scale grows bigger (fingers crossed), I will think if I want to monetize it and then how!
Seems really nice. Would definitely use it myself. I can see that with Flexiple, you are going with Toptal's headline, only being 1% for a certain job types. Good luck :)
Thanks - do let me know how it goes!
I look at it and all it comes to my head is Undraw.
Very generous though.
What's your win, traffic to Flexiple?
I think our illustrations have a lot more work and detail. Also I've many more additional features planned. But sure, you can still compare Scale to Undraw.
Yes :). Currently, traffic to Flexiple would be great.
Sure features are good, but ot stills looks like Undraw.
Good luck buddy.
Ok then - thanks :)
Curious about why "no attribution required"? Seems like a no brainer: you don't have to enforce it, but you'll get a few people who promote you for free. Cool and generous idea though!
Hey Dagobert,
Don't get me wrong, I would love if someone attributes it to Scale - it is just not required though :)
The reason, I have stated that explicitly is that most illustration websites say that illustrations are free, but then mandate an attribution. This discourages the use of those illustrations.
I would rather people use it and if they are feeling good about it, also attribute it to me. Even better give me a shout out on Twitter :P
Oh yeah, I didn't know other illustration services had that. In that case it can be a competitive advantage indeed 😉
haha :)
Awesome work! Are there any plans to add an API or programmatic access to the illustrations? I would love to embed these in generated images I’m using for Mugshot Bot.
Agreed. That would be a great feature!
You were one of our first users Brayden (I know you have paused work on Buildfaster, but still :) ) - so this feature gets a bigger boost!
Yeah, I plan to use your illustrations on a future project of mine. Still coming up with an idea then I'll let you know :)
Super! So excited :)
Thanks Joe!
With this built on no-code for now, that kind of feature is not immediately on the cards. But this is good food for thought. I will work towards this too!
Mugshot Bot looks great :)
Sounds great and thank you!
Like the idea and the diversity options. Good job!
Thanks Eliran!