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This is interesting. Do you know what features the classifier is matching on? Like how much does stuff like whitespace matter here vs. deeper code structure? Put differently, if yo…

This is a really compelling idea – but I'm having a little trouble making the leap from the high level description to what it would mean for my projects in more concrete terms. Wou…

Wow, this blew my mind! I read all the pg essays when I first started programming so I must have read this at some point!

> To that end, I'd like a view where the focus is the art itself. This is something we've been trying to figure out! If you have an account, you can view this: https://artinres.com…

> I love artists and design, and am shocked this has not happened yet, so Im rooting for you. I really appreciate it! And I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your questions. One asp…

Not a noob question! It's a deep and interesting question. :) Pricing art is harder than pricing most other things since artworks are, by definition, non-fungible / unique. This ma…

This is a great catch! Thank you for pointing that out.

> - I don't really care much about the Covid-19 relief. If you are donating then good for you and for helping the community. But I do actually avoid websites/services that try to a…

Early on, when Art in Res was just an idea, we played with a model where we took zero commission and monetized other ways. But, when we talked to our artists about it, they were sk…

We take on the risk (it's one of the main reasons for our commission). If someone stops paying, either they send their artwork back to the artist or, in the worst case scenario, we…

Totally with you on this. It's super annoying! We're working on a fix.

100% agree this is annoying. We're working on a fix.

Thank you! We're makers, so we built it. Here's the stack: - React & redux on the front end - Rails on the back end - Postgres & redis for persistence - Stripe (including Connect) …

> So I love the idea, but to me it seems the challenge you face is how to present the art. Sorry I don't really have any great suggestions -- more views of each piece that allow fo…

> At first I found it hard to find the "next" arrow at the bottom. After scrolling through the first page, I gave up trying to find the next arrow and moved on to looking at the fi…

This is so cool – and so flattering! Hard to say when we'll be hiring next, but let's talk: jf@artinres.com

> - Why fixed installments? Why not say "this piece costs 300$ buy now, or pay 10 installments of 35$ or 20x20$" (forget the numbers, just an example). We're considering adding mor…

I love that idea!

It's US only for now, but once we figure out shipping and taxes we're excited to open up internationally.

Edit: Roger that, we're showing the full price now. -- This is super helpful, thank you! The last thing we want to do is to deceive people. There's a lot of information we want to …

Oh wow, thank you, this is really, really helpful to know! We're so used to the paying-in-installments piece that we must have gotten blind to the fact that people seeing it for th…

Thank you! This is great feedback. The filters are lower contrast because we want the attention to stay on the art. But they might be too low-contrast and introduce usability probl…

Thank you!

If someone stops paying, they're required to return their artwork (we even used to frame the relationship as a "rental"). In the case of a truly bad actor that stops paying and goe…

We take a percentage. For a given sale, 70% goes to the artist and 30% goes to the platform.