Thread Studio

Thread Studio designs the thread that sells your product on BuiltByBit (the description on your resource page) and its listing thumbnail, the way a designer would: it asks about your product, picks a look, and lays everything out. You answer a few questions, choose between a few looks and ask for changes in your own words. Then publish: SunLicense draws the images, hosts them, and gives you BBCode with every link filled in, ready to paste.

Thread Studio is in the dashboard under Tools, marked Experimental while it settles. It is on every plan. Hosting the images counts toward your plan's thread limits: Free 1 product and 25 MB, Lite 5 products and 150 MB, Standard 25 products and 500 MB. On Lite and Standard each AI step (reading your product, the draft, each change you ask for) uses one SunLicense AI message. Free gets 30 AI tool calls a month, shared with Docs' Write with AI, enough for a few threads. With your own AI key none of it is counted, on any plan.

Brand kit

Tools › Thread Studio › Brand kit holds what every thread of yours shares, set once: your name (shown as the creator), tagline, Discord invite, website, docs, store page, a one-line support promise ("Answers within 24 hours on Discord") and your studio colours. The logo is your organization's (Settings › Branding), and Discord starts from the invite there. Every thread's support block uses the kit unless you give that product its own links.

Start a thread

Open Tools › Thread Studio and choose New thread. One question at a time:

1. Product: the product the thread is for, and what it is: the game or platform and the kind (plugin, server setup, config, Skript, build, models, textures, graphics, bot, theme, script, map, mod).
2. About it: describe the product in as much detail as you like and add every picture that shows it: screenshots, menus, banners and your logo (up to 12). Your download page's screenshots are already there. A thread needs at least 3 screenshots of the product working, so the interview continues once there are three.
3. Questions: SunLicense AI reads everything and asks two to four questions that would make the thread sell better: a screenshot of a feature you mention but don't show, which server software it runs on, whether there's a test server. Answer or skip each.
4. Look: three colour sets that suit your product, each shown as your listing thumbnail on the template that fits it. Pick one, or switch the template (all templates are one click away).

Design my thread writes the copy from your description and answers, places your screenshots, and opens the editor. If the AI isn't available, the editor opens with what you gave, to finish there.

Templates

Each template rebuilds what top-selling threads of a kind do (from a study of nearly 800 of them):

Template	For
Product page	Plugins, Hytale mods: a dark product page in one tall image
Setup showcase	Server setups and configs: buttons and test server first, a "what's included" checklist
Asset pack	Builds, maps, models, textures, graphics: a screenshot collage, spec tiles, a gallery
Bot showcase	Discord bots and tools: your product inside chat-message frames
Storefront	Webstore and panel themes: a live preview button under the banner, feature rows
Clean light	Premium tools and UI kits: a light product page with stat cards
Pixel quest	Hytale and game mods: a game-interface look with pixel labels
Spec sheet	Modules, add-ons, Skripts: a spec table and numbered sections over real text
Lean text	Scripts and anything that reads best as text: a small banner over real text
Aurora	Premium plugins and tools: glass cards over soft colour light, your product in a glass frame
Bento	Launches, bots and tools: the hero and features as a grid of rounded tiles (dark or light)
Brutal	Bold indie products: flat colour, thick outlines, hard shadows and sticker tags (light sets)
Neon grid	PvP, minigames, arcade: a synthwave sky, a glowing grid floor and neon capitals
Tale UI	Hytale, RPG and fantasy: gold bevelled frames, carved capitals and ornaments
Stud pop	Roblox and playful packs: a studded colour field, sticker screenshots and ribbons
Island kit	Fortnite (UEFN) and Garry's Mod: condensed capitals and slanted bars over real text
Addon series	A range of add-ons: one compact look with a series bar, so buyers recognise your products
Blocky poster, Midnight landing, Hybrid classic	Playful gameplay plugins, large products, technical tools

Every card in the template library shows the top of your own thread in that template.

Colours come only from curated sets that read well; there are no colour pickers. A template only offers the sets that suit it (some are dark only, Clean light is light only).

Style

The Style button in the editor's rail sets the rest of the look, always from choices that suit the template:

• Typeface: 13 pairings of a title face and a text face (Modern, Tech, Wide, Expressive, Editorial, Tall, Esports, Sci-fi, Chunky, Cartoon, Friendly, Fantasy, Pixel), or the template's own. Title size (small, medium, large) and capitals (the template's, all caps, as typed) fine-tune it; titles always fit their space.
• 3D elements: one or two small 3D renders in your colours beside the title and on the thumbnail: blocky heroes, loot (sword, chest, gem), blocks, magic, bots, rewards, economy, gems, 3D shapes or tech. They're off unless you add them; most threads look best without.
• Pattern behind the content (dots, grid, honeycomb, contours, circuit, studs…) and a faint light and finish effect (glow, aurora, light rays, bokeh, film grain, scanlines, vignette). A light effect and 3D elements don't go together: picking one sets the other aside.

Switching template keeps what the new one takes and resets the rest.

Change it

The editor shows the thread as buyers see it. Click any section to select it: move it up or down, hide it, edit its words right under it, or ask the AI about just that section. The rail on the left opens the template library, the colours, the style, the list of sections (show, hide, reorder) and the details (what the product is, the listing title and tags, your description).

The design check above the thread lists what a designer would point out: screenshots that will look soft, missing captions, a long name or tagline, too few features, no support link. Publishing waits until the thread has at least 3 screenshots.

The SunLicense AI panel on the right takes changes in your own words: "warmer colours", "move the FAQ up", "make the features more specific", "try a lighter look", "add 3D characters", "a fantasy typeface". With a section selected, it works on that section. Each answer says what it changed, and Undo takes it back. The conversation stays with the design.

The Thumbnail tab shows the listing thumbnail (2000 × 1000, BuiltByBit's card image). It's drawn in your template's look (its typeface, colours, pattern, effect and 3D elements), so the card in search matches the thread it opens. Each template offers a few alternative styles, among them 3D showcase (your elements large beside the title); add a corner badge (NEW, a version) and download it.

Marketing kit

The Marketing kit tab draws the pictures around your thread from the same design (template, colours, typeface, 3D elements, screenshots and words), grouped by where they go:

Picture	Size	For
Listing thumbnail	2000 × 1000	The card buyers see in search and category lists (its style is set in the Thumbnail tab)
Product icon	512 × 512	The resource icon, your Discord server, your store. Your logo on a tile, a line icon on a tile, a ring, or your main 3D element
Gallery screenshots	1920 × 1080	One per screenshot, framed and captioned, for the listing's gallery
Social card	1200 × 630	Announcements on Discord, X and forums
Video thumbnail	1280 × 720	A showcase or update video on YouTube
Feature cards	1080 × 1080	One per top feature (up to three), for a carousel post
Discord server banner	960 × 540	Server Settings › Server banner
Update banner	1200 × 400	Each update: its title and up to four lines on what changed
Sale banner	1200 × 400	Sale events and discount codes: the deal and when it ends
Thread banner	1200 × 400	A wide header for any post

The social card, update and sale banners have Copy post text: ready-to-paste words for the post that goes with the picture. Download each picture as a PNG, or Download all as a zip. These pictures aren't hosted: upload them where they go. The listing's title and tags are under Details in the editor's rail.

Publish

Publish draws the images, uploads them and checks each one, then shows the BBCode. Copy it into your resource's description on BuiltByBit, and download the thumbnail for the resource's card image.

Each publish is a new version. Versions never change once published, so a thread you posted keeps working when you publish again. Published versions in the editor's ⋯ menu lists them, with Copy BBCode for each. Deleting a version deletes its images: any thread still using it shows broken images.

Image-heavy templates also include the text of your description in a spoiler (Read the description as text), so marketplace search still finds it.

API

Under the product's permissions (products.read to read, products.write for the rest):

• GET /api/v1/distribution/threads: every design with its latest published version, and usage.
• GET and PUT /api/v1/distribution/threads/brand with {"document": {…}}: the brand kit.
• GET /api/v1/distribution/products/{productId}/thread: the design, its screenshots, the published versions and usage.
• PUT …/thread with {"template": "landing", "document": {…}} saves the design (a new one needs room in thread_designs); DELETE …/thread deletes it with every version.
• POST …/thread/uploads with {"kind": "screenshot", "size": 1234} returns an upload URL; PUT the bytes, then POST …/uploads/{fileId}/complete. PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 8 MB.
• POST …/thread/versions with the template, the BBCode ({{IMG:<name>}} where each image goes) and the images' names, sizes and dimensions returns an upload URL per image; POST …/versions/{number}/complete checks them and publishes. DELETE …/versions/{number} deletes one.
• Published images are public at https://api.sunlicense.com/api/v1/downloads/thread-files/{id}.png.