Which Tuts+ Site Should We Launch Next?

Which Tuts+ Site Should We Launch Next?

on May 10th 2012 with 27 comments

We’re planning our next few Tuts+ sites, and would love your opinion and advice on which topics you think we should cover next! We’d be really grateful if you could take a minute to answer our quick poll and share your thoughts…

Have Your Say

We’ve been considering lots of different ideas for our next Tuts+ sites over the past few weeks, and wanted to also ask the opinion of our awesome community!

A selection of different concepts are included in the poll to the right, along with the option for you to submit your own ideas as well.

The important thing to note is that these are just ideas. Some of these are close to making our final cut, and others aren’t… We’d love to hear what you think, to help guide our decision.

Thanks for taking the time to offer your suggestion — I can’t wait to see what you have to say!

Win a 6-Month Tuts+ Premium Membership

Our poll will be running for the next couple of weeks, and we’ll be choosing one respondent at random to receive a six-month Tuts+ Premium membership!

To be entered into the giveaway, just leave a comment on this post to go into a bit more detail about your site suggestion. We’ll choose one comment at random to win the Tuts+ Premium membership when the poll ends.

Best of luck!

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  • http://gregbenner.ca Greg Benner

    Gamedevtuts, I think a lot of the other tuts sites have at one point touched on the topic. It would be swell to have a proper place with just game dev.

  • http://smartfucker.de ben

    +1 for Gamedevtuts! Businesstuts & Financetuts are also welcome.

  • Lowkase

    A Mobile Website tuts site would be great. You have the Mobile tuts site but rarely if ever touch upon issues in the mobile website market (responsive layout, gesture frameworks, etc).

    Also, can someone at Envato take a look at the Freelanceswitch forum?! The experience on that forum, while in the past has been vibrant and extremely useful has fallen into a state of disrepair, spam and non-complete functionality plaguing the Freelanceswitch forum experience.

    Simply adding a captcha to the login would solve most of the spamming issues on the forum which would help return the forum to its former self. Also, the “Remember Me” checkbox on the login has NEVER worked. If you don’t want to fix it, then remove it.

    It looks like amateur time on the part of Envato concerning many elements on the Freelanceswitch forum. Fixing these issues will go along way to reaffirming to me that Envato cares about its community and wants to make its experience best of class.

  • http://www.twitter.com/williamherring William

    I voted for Freelancetuts+. As someone who makes their money freelancing I always look for tips to acquire more clients, make more money and be efficient in my efforts for both.

    The resources for freelancers are very sparse.

    From a business perspective, Freelancetuts+ could capitalize on the large and growing global freelance community.

    It should also grow fast as it leverages the traffic many of the other tuts site receive.

    I think it’s safe to say that tuts+ as a whole has a lot of freelance visitors.

    Just a thought ;)

  • Jon

    UI/UXtuts+

    I would be nice to see a site that focuses on UI and UX. I believe it would be in line with the existing properties within the network and be beneficial to the other sites, as they wouldn’t need to focus as much on interfaces, because they could simply refer users to the UI/UX site.

  • http://laranzjoe.blogspot.com lawrence77

    i voted ‘others’

    dotnettuts+ which cover every bit of the dotnet framework, sqlserver, ado.net, wcf, wpf, silverlight, windows phone etc.,

    I didn’t see any windows phone tuts here in mobile tuts. :(

    cmstuts+ which cover every cms from wordpress, drupal, joomla, dotnetblogengine, dotnetnuke etc., :D

    where is Herbtuts+ in options :D

    A tutsplus forum will be awesome too

  • David

    I voted for the gamedev tuts.

    I think this would tie in well with 3D Ocean and will be able to open up the programming languages covered. I have always wanted to be able to make games but ended up in web development and if the site can provide full on tutorials I may be able to do something about it.

    I am currently playing with cryengine3 and I would hope that it the site would be able to cover this sort of engine.

    I think that it will also bring in a different group of developers to the blog that will be able to enrich other envato blogs within this group including cgtuts and audio tuts.

  • http://gieglas.com Constantinos

    A entrepreneur site could be nice. Also all for a productivity site

  • Alejandro Ugalde

    Freelancetuts+

    One of the most difficult aspects of being a designer was having to work freelance without ant kind of advice. How much do I charge? How many revisions do I offer? Should I charge the extra hours? Am I underpayed? The day isn’t long enough…
    Those were only a few of the questions that haunted me everyday and some still do today.
    I voted Freelance Tuts because if you think about it, most of the people that look for tutorials are either in school or freelancers, so a site like this is a match made in heaven.

  • Francisco

    Please add Gamedevtuts+

  • balkaransingh

    Definitely Gamedevtuts entirely focused on developing games using different engines and for different platforms

  • bliitzi

    Mathtuts?? Is that a joke? xD

    I want a Mactuts+ focused on OSX Programming. That would be awesome!

    Gamedevtuts+ doesn’t interest me at all

  • Diane

    Many children’s book authors and teachers would like some tutorials about how to make an interactive iPad book app (picture book). We need fixed (not flowing) text, pagination, animations, physics and all the other stuff iOS games need. But we need instruction about how to apply all those games tutorials to a book app. Because the graphics are usually large, we also need to optimized our books (especially now with the retina iPad).

  • Camilo

    GamedevTuts is a must.
    Also freelance and UX would be awesome.

  • schoolant

    I think Mathtuts+ would be a worthwhile idea that focuses to educate higher level math programming skills such as algorithm development and possibly even some basic math ideas for the younger viewers. Math is a huge part of the digital engineering world and I do believe that we need to be focusing on the core concepts of engineering before taking on something as big as game development. Just my idea…

  • Ian Kavanagh

    I think Mathtuts+ is a very good idea, most programming algorithms are routed in maths and one of the main issues people have with beginning to program is the maths behind the algorithms.

  • Sreekumar

    FinanceTuts is the most required in this world!

    Followed by BusinessTuts and Freelance..

    -Sree

  • Anesu

    UX!

  • Trisha

    I voted for Healthtuts. I recently got really into health stuff. From Juicing, to Paleo, to Crossfit, to my new Fitbit.. I love being HEALTHY. I am constantly online looking at more and more sources. Learning is fun! Taking action today to benefit your future is fun!

  • http://www.thealphastory.com Matt Wagner

    Definitely Gamedevtuts+! This site has always been focused on instruction and I feel that the other options just wouldn’t quite fit in being that they would relate mostly to articles. The idea of learning to create games from a website I already know and trust sounds very enticing. Learning techniques in this field would be a very useful tool, above any other mentioned.

  • Ernaldo

    I voted for Businesstuts+ because it fits my needs.
    It’s hard for people to find their way in this complex world.
    It’s easy to forget about some aspects so it would be handy to have some sort of red wire for this.

    I’d like to follow Gamedevtuts+ too though.

  • Jess J.

    A general Design-tuts would be my vote. It could encompass more real-world dilemmas than software issues alone (from designing with different physical materials to rendering with a 3D printer, to different methods of printing, like debossing and split-fountain, since clients still demand some printed materials). It could also speak to design philosophies like if branding is a good or terrible influence on the design world. And how to promote on websites like Dribble and Behance. Though the tuts network gives you the fundamental skills on the computer, it’d be neat for the network to bridge the gap between virtual and real design world.

  • Michelle

    UX and MobileWebsites tuts!

  • http://austin.is austin

    Not that I would use it personally, but how about a video.tuts? Something covering editing, animations, lighting, software, gifs, flash, and any image that moves!

  • sandeep

    On Algorithms , Machine Learning for the web.

  • Lukas

    GUI for android tuts :D

  • http://www.occtopia.com Jason Occhipinti

    UXTuts!