Photo Licensing Marketplace

Stock Photo

A keyword-driven microstock marketplace where indie photographers license royalty-clear images and track earnings per shot in a creator studio.

Full planning bundle — BRAND, MRD, BRD, PRD, DESIGN
Branded styleguide — typography, color, components
5 previewable mockups

Cloning copies the full plan into a new project you own — edit it freely.

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Styleguide and mockups

A look at the brand palette and screen-level mockups that ship with this plan. Cloning copies all of them into your project.

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Style guide

Styleguide

What this blueprint gives you

A two-sided microstock marketplace built for the serious independent photographer. Buyers browse a full-bleed catalog by keyword, category, and license type; creators upload batches, write metadata once, and earn per download with a transparent royalty ledger that shows exactly which shots are generating income.

The creator studio is the heart of the product. Every uploaded image gets its own earnings page — download count, license tier, referrer data, and a per-month revenue chart. No black-box quarterly statements; revenue is visible the day a license is sold.

The catalog is built for discovery, not noise. Full-bleed thumbnails, fine-rule chrome, and serif metadata keep the editorial register of the photography itself. Buyers filter by orientation, color palette, subject, and license tier without leaving the grid. A one-click lightbox surfaces full-size previews and metadata before committing to a license.

Licensing is explicit and fast. Buyers choose from Standard (web, social, print under 500k runs) or Extended (broadcast, merchandise, unlimited print) at checkout. A royalty-clear certificate is generated and stored on the buyer’s account for every transaction — no attribution required, no chasing licenses later.

The payout surface treats creators like the small businesses they are. Earnings accumulate, a configurable threshold triggers a payout request, and a detailed statement shows each licensed image, its buyer’s sector, and the gross and net amounts. Tax form collection and annual summaries are built in.

Five planning documents — BRAND, MRD, BRD, PRD, DESIGN — at senior-team depth, covering catalog architecture, license enforcement, creator onboarding, payout rails, and the editorial design system that keeps the product feeling like a gallery, not a search engine.

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Marketplaces

Preview the plan

Each blueprint includes the senior-level planning files. These cards show the opening text before you clone the full bundle.

Brand Guidelines Document

BRAND.md

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BRAND — Stock Photo Marketplace One line The marketplace that treats a photograph as inventory, not decoration. Who it speaks to Primary: the working independent photographer Maya Reyes is 32. She shoots on weekends — urban landscapes, architecture, street scenes, macro nature — with gear she bought herself. She has a catalog of roughly 4,000 processed images sitting in Lightroom. She sells on Getty as a contributor but earns $18 in a good month and has no visibility into which images are moving

Design Specification Document

DESIGN.md

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DESIGN — Stock Photo Marketplace Design intent Editorial gallery meets professional financial ledger. The catalog is full bleed photography; the chrome is a fine rule and a serif label. On buyer surfaces, the product disappears behind the image. On creator surfaces, the product is a precise, data dense tool — a dashboard that looks and feels like a well designed editorial analytics tool, not a generic SaaS admin panel. The visual register is that of a serious magazine's digital presence: high qu

Market Requirements Document

MRD.md

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MRD — Stock Photo Marketplace Market summary The stock photography market generates approximately $4B annually at the global level, dominated by Getty Images, Shutterstock, and Adobe Stock. These three platforms collectively control contributor terms, set effective royalty rates (often 15–35% of display price for non exclusive contributors), and provide minimal per image performance data. Contributors with fewer than 10,000 active images are algorithmically deprioritized regardless of image qual

Business Requirements Document

BRD.md

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BRD — Stock Photo Marketplace Business model A three revenue stream model designed for two sided marketplace dynamics. 1. Platform fee on license transactions (primary) The platform charges a percentage of each license transaction — taken from the photographer's floor price, not added on top of the display price. Default platform fee is 30% for non exclusive listings; 20% for exclusive listings (where the photographer removes the image from competing platforms). The buyer pays the photographer's

Product Requirements Document

PRD.md

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PRD — Stock Photo Marketplace Product summary A two sided microstock marketplace. On the supply side: a creator studio where independent photographers upload images, write metadata, set price floors, and track earnings per photograph with full transparency. On the demand side: a keyword driven catalog where buyers browse full bleed photography, preview at full quality, choose a license tier, check out in under two minutes, and receive a royalty clear certificate stored on their account. Personas