My idea

Hello greg. That's exactly what I'm trying to do with ThemeSwitcherScript. Development is on hold, because I don't have enough time. But I plan to resume development as soon as I have more time. I think Windhawk will help me use as little third-party software as possible.

I do not want to be rude, but this is a very sketchy way of 'sharing' your information. A website with its only contents being a sign up form for a news letter that currently has no content in it. This URL throws me off even more: theme-market.com/cart. Why would there be a shopping cart if you were planning on sharing free information? Also, this post is a duplicate of this one: winclassic.net/thread/1602/easier-customize-desktop. 

In general I avoid things that are locked behind registration and or/payment. All information on this forum is readily accessible and we openly share our methods with each other. I feel like there is something off here...
I could be totally wrong here though. There is nothing that concretely proves that you there is something off, so I am interested to know what you came up with and how it works. Feel free to share it with us.

But yet, like Leet said, you have a cart page, and your Reddit post has a mockup of what looks like a store, with prices for themes. And why do you need to collect email addresses? IDK, I might be being paranoid, but I can't help but feel this comes off as a little bit fishy.

Nothing against the rules about wanting to sell your stuff, just be transparent about it. It appears this is borderline breaking rule 3. Yeah, you need to explain this isn't a sales pitch, or I'm locking this thread up, sorry. And next time, bump your old thread, please don't create a new one on the same subject - you're free to necropost here. Of course, as long as it's not spam/advertising something.

EDIT: I changed the thread title.

Thank you for these clarifications.

From what I could understand (on the PDF file you attached), your project looks more like a project such as SkinPacks, but more developed.
My project has similarities, but is more about theming controls for the purpose of automation (and only that, they are definitely not full themes). So it's not quite the same thing.

You seem to be describing several ideas in one, it's quite confusing. You obviously want to be able to skip using third-party software; it depends if it's a native Windows feature (change colors, cursors, wallpaper, in this case it's easy to automate it), or a non-native feature (in this case, you have to look at whether the code that does this is proprietary or not. As for WindowsBlinds, it's commercial software and it's proprietary, so unless you reverse-engineer the software, it's likely to fail. be difficult to copy it in a legal way.

And, similarly to The Jackal, I'm having trouble understanding if your long-term wish is to sell something. For the moment, it is clear that you are not selling anything, but what about in the long term? Your project is very similar to SkinsPacks, which is not commercial in itself, but allows you to sell themes individually (I don't like SkinsPack, personally, the themes lack seriousness). Your Linkedin profile mentions that you are an entrepreneur, which makes me rather lean towards a commercial project, one way or another (although I could be wrong of course).

No worries!

The guide and the main idea are two separate things. The guide just shows people how I've made my Windows 10 installation look like XP, and I guess I use it as a way to get people to sign up and it's probably better if I send people that first then ask for feedback on my main idea, asking first didn't get me anywhere when I first tried it. 

What do you mean by automation?

Apologies for not explaining it very well. The idea is a desktop app where there'd be themes that change all major UI elements (icons, wallpaper, start menu, taskbar, system sounds etc.) all on one platform. Obviously, I wouldn't be using 3rd parties at that point - they're just for the guide. My idea would change the look of the existing UI elements, but wouldn't properly replace them/change their position/functionality like what Rainmeter seems to do, if that's what you mean? I just use WindowBlinds as an example, I'd be doing what they do for the window frames, but within the bigger realm of these themes. I wouldn't be trying to duplicate/reverse-engineer how they do it (I hope not anyway, I haven't tried making any actual software yet so I'm not sure of the technicalities/intricacies).

Yes, when I (hopefully) release the software I do plan on selling it. Yes I suppose it's quite similar to what SkinPacks is doing, although a bit more comprehensive and via an app instead. It's probably a bit pretentious of me to put Team Entrepreneur in my LinkedIn headline, but that's what we're referred to on my university course, Team Entrepreneurship, instead of students. I don't have the right to call myself a proper entrepreneur at this point   But yeah long-term I do plan on selling, why do you ask?

Also thanks for explaining bumping, does that mean that if a reply is posted then the whole post goes back to the top?