Updates

In our continued efforts to help members discover and follow great new work, we’ve launched a new Shots tab today called Suggestions. Our first release simply shows a stream of shots from people you don’t follow that have been liked by those you do. Hovering over the thumbnail will show you which member did the liking.

Dribbble founders, Dan & Rich, chatted with Adam Stacoviak on his esteemed 5by5 podcast last week.

Today we’re fired up to announce a new feature for Pro members. Find Designers is a powerful tool to search for Dribbble members by location, skills, work availability, and more. Location search has been one of the most requested features since we started the site, so we’re thrilled to finally make it available. Being able to wade through the community’s ever-growing talent pool makes discovering and connecting with designers that interest you even easier.

9 days day ago we launched Job Ads on Dribbble. Since that time, we’ve seen:

Dribbble players and fans have been gathering all over the globe—except here in Massachusetts, the league’s home state. We’re going to fix that.

Dribbble is blessed with a lot of talented designers. Accordingly, we’ve had numerous employers ask to advertise open positions on Dribbble, but never an appropriate format to offer them. We’re happy to change that today.

Two weeks ago, we gave Pro members the ability to display their work availability via the Hire Me button. Today, Pros can now add skills to their profile.

Dribbble has become a fantastic place to discover creative talent, and we’ve long been hearing success stories from Dribbble players who receive a steady stream of work requests via the site. We want to make connections between free agents and talent scouts even easier.

We’ve introduced a small but fun new feature today: Player Cards. Dribbble is a site about showing your work, so we’ve updated member lists across the site to do the same—they now display a shot (if applicable) for each member in the list, as well as member location and a few stats.

One of our focal points at Dribbble is helping you discover interesting shots. Toward that end, we launched Buckets last week. Today we’re happy to release Colors.

There’s an amazing variety of shots uploaded on Dribbble every day, and it’s our continual challenge to make it easier to discover new and interesting content. Today we’ve launched Buckets to help the community participate in curating Dribbble.

For the past year, we’ve sold our own advertising on Dribbble. It put food on the table as we became a company, was a tremendous learning experience, and allowed us to work with some fantastic, like-minded companies, helping them gain exposure in front of the community. But it was also a tremendous amount of work. Our tiny team would prefer to focus on efforts that directly affect the app and the community.

Wanted to note that we made a fix to our Pro stats for 30-day counts of shot views. Due to a bug in our SQL, we’ve been omitting views/clicks that come from anonymous (non-Dribbble) users in these counts. Thus we’ve been underreporting the 30-day shot views numbers. (By how much depends on what percentage of a user’s views/clicks come from Dribbblers.)

We’re super excited today to announce the release of Dribbble Pro, a suite of extra features for existing players for just $19 USD per year.

April 1st is just around the corner and we have some limited space still available for advertising. Our traffic and community continue to grow (12M+ impressions served last month) and with prices starting at $295 for a monthly spot, it’s a fantastic way to promote your business to our vibrant creative community. Visit dribbble.com/site/advertise or contact [at] dribbble dot com for more info.

Astute dribbblers may have noticed a few subtle updates to the UI that went live over the weekend. While on the surface the changes might seem tiny or easily unnoticed, the release had a gigantic amount under the covers that we’re currently testing privately. This will pave the way for an exciting announcement soonish.

We’d like to issue some invitations this month! Before doing so, it’s worth noting a small change to the way invitations work. We’ve added an expiration date to invitations (currently 30 days from the date an invitation is sent). Once an invitation has expired, it can no longer be used to sign up and will be restored to the sender.

Jan 19, 2011

To Infinity and Beyond

We wanted to take a moment to talk about our road map for the future. But first, a little history …

Jan 11, 2011

Dribbble is ... Fan-tastic

Social media star and dribbler (only two b’s?!) Shaquille O’Neal informs us as @the_real_shaq that he’s very “quotatious.” (His word—note the quotatious marks.) Following in his giant footsteps, Dribbble will soon be very … Spectatious.

We are now booking ads for January, February and March of 2011. There is a 10% discount for booking all three months up front.