After years of planning and prototyping, and months of hard development work, the Paperight site I’ve always wanted is finally live – see http://paperight.com. There are still a ton of features and refinements in development, but we have here the world’s first instant-delivery print-rights marketplace for copy shops.
Previous versions of the site, from prototypes in 2009 to the beta we built last year, were missing key features that I believe are crucial to the ecosystem we’re trying to enable:
- Documents have to be watermarked and delivered instantly, so that copy shops can print for customers while they wait.
- Outlets have to be able to top up an account in advance.
- Outlets have to be able to work in the currency of their choice, wherever they are in the world.
- The site has to be lightning fast and easy to use.
We’ve achieved that now, and I’m really happy about it. Continue reading
