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Ahh, forgot about this one! I'll definitely give it a go. Also there's one from Quanta magazine, with Steven Strogatz. Hm, I see the last one, with him, was from august. Still they've continued with someone else I guess.

I'd also like to hear more! Your experiences sound really interesting, so if you decide to write about them - you'll have one more reader. :)

This is the world we're living in. Unfortunately, I can give you only one upvote...

My condolences... :(

Interesting. Thank you!

Very interesting thread. Thanks!

Congratulations!

Back when I attended faculty, I had a project assigned to me titled "Lempel-Ziv compression of binary strings" or something like that. It was one of the most fun projects I worked on.

This is the first time I hear about Katalin Karikó and Douglas Prasher and their stories. Thank you for mentioning them.

I'm shocked (in a way)...but on the other side I'm not very surprised. :( Occasionally I would hear or read threads and news talking about the problems in science (research, funding, education) like the one we're commenting on. Still these stories are on another level (or maybe it's just a feeling I have, because there are faces, official news clips, statements etc. so we can relate to those people on a personal level). And when I just think that there are, who knows how many, people like these...

+1 for this one!

+1. Eager to hear the story :)

I see that that's your signature, but I'll definitely start using hnreplies too.

Talk to you soon!

Hi udkl!

1. I Googled "bootstrap ui kit" and, indeed, have found a lot of free Bootstrap UI Kits BUT it seems that a lot of these kits (maybe not most of them - I don't know because I didn't check all of the kits I have found) are free versions of premium kits. As I already mentioned, I do plan to add enough elements so that my customers could use each Kit for most of their needs. Besides creating UI elements, I also plan on creating example pages, so that customers could just modify those if they want. I'm thinking about offering PS or Sketch versions (I'll see about this) besides HTML version. One more reason for which I believe that there is a market for non-free Bootstrap UI Kits is that I see a couple of companies in this space that are doing well, so that's always a good thing/indicator :)

2. Hey, thanks! I'd love to hear your opinion. I'm going to contact you soon on your email address from your profile page. OK?

Once again, thanks very much for your constructive comments and your offer!

Mladen

Hi udkl! Thanks for your comment.

I am thinking about publishing something on themeforest BUT: 1. I don't think there is a section with UI Kits. I think that there is a section with HTML themes and I might (but just might) test that eventually; 2. it is very hard to differentiate yourself in a place where you have a lot of people doing something similar; 3. there isn't a lot of places on Internet where you could sell a UI Kit so I might try to create one by myself;

What is the thing (or things) that you think should be changed? It's true that I've left some links unset (I've fixed that, like an hour ago, to a certain level - but it will be much better soon). The thing I noticed is that people didn't get that the image (on the card with premium Kit) is a part of a carousel, so I set that to autoplay, for now. The part where you have a card with a premium UI Kit and the card with the free UI Kit should be straightforward, and all buttons work as they are supposed to. Is there something you think should be changed, or if something is unclear...and if there is - what exactly?

Once again, thanks for the feedback. It means a world to me, especially now when I'm still at the beginning of this business!

Mladen

p.s. Sorry if there is a lot of grammatical errors. I'm too tired currently and English is not my first language.

Hi there!

Even though I'm a full-stack developer, during the previous year I had to build several Bootstrap UI Kits. I think I became pretty good at it so a week ago I started http://www.bootstrapuikits.com (worked on it for a couple of months before launching). Currently I run it as a store where I sell my own Bootstrap UI Kits (OK, one kit for now, but two more nice ones are in the works!) but the idea is to expand into a marketplace so that others could sell their own quality UI Kits. Besides that, the idea is for each UI kit to cover at least 10 cases (in at least one version) through example pages (store, social network, portfolio...).

Of course, it's not profitable yet, but I plan to offer great support(!) and great Bootstrap UI Kits (each with 10+ themes) so we'll see. My analysis tells me that I could probably earn $600-800 per UI Kit (created by me) per month. I'm thinking about publishing the results in 3-4 months on Bootstrap UI Kits blog (soon to be created) so stay tuned.

Hopefully that would be enough for me to provide for my family so that, as some people mentioned, I could work on some other things I'm interested in like A LOT (like mathematics, physics, chemistry, electronics...).

Wish me luck! Nah, kidding... I don't believe in luck, just in hard work.

Heh... +1 for this one.

My main post (to which I'm responding now) was actually written on 24. December, which I also spent by working on my little project. I just pasted it here, from notepad, but now it got some weird paragraphs.

Paul, fix this mate.