Earlier quoted context omitted.
What other verticals do you think you’ll expand into?
I was thinking of maybe turning Instapainting into a social network.
So a social network for Chinese painters?
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Re: Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
#162Not sure if I'm missing something or why nobody else has asked this -- the things you've done "for SEO purposes" all seem like full time jobs on their own! Like: - Building a robot - Neural algorithm AI - Multiplayer 2048 clone Is there any secret to all of these, like outsourcing or anything, or are you just an insane genius? (which I don't doubt actually..)
Sounds like he is a rather intelligent person.
I mean 4k in dept are hard, but all that he did (Microservices, Robotics, AI, Games) seems like way over the top of your average person.
Re: Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
#163I was pretty close to ordering a gift for the holidays until I saw the charge of $3.00 to NOT appear as a sample on your website. [1]
Why are you making people pay $3.00 to NOT appear in your gallery of samples?
Sorry, but that seems absolutely ridiculous and is a deal breaker for me.
Re: Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
#164What are the profit margins?
Also interested in this. Revenue is solid but I imagine a lot of that is pass-thru to the artists? Middle-man platforms can usually only do about 10% margin before opex.
Re: Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
#165When the 2048 game came out, I quickly hacked up a 2 player version and placed it under the Instapainting.com domain for SEO purposes. Does this really work? Does Google think you are a better site for ordering paintings because you host a game? I tend to think Google is smarter by now. In fact, I would expect that Google almost exclusively relies on real user behaviour these days.
I came here to ask about that too. From what I've heard elsewhere, it sounds like Google is smart enough to figure out if you are posting unrelated content just for SEO purposes, and that engaging in such practices is a good way to get Google-smacked.
Re: Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
#166Congrats on the success. Thanks for sharing the business story too. Disclaimer: this is not a paid endorsement. I don't know Chris. But I happen to be a customer - having bought a painting as a gift. It is framed on the wall at this moment. My only feedback. Your prices felt too inexpensive. Knowing something was handmade I would have paid more than I did. I'm sure you have researched the market and margins and all t…
Reminds me of one of my favorite "jokes" about scale. If you're a one in a million, there are 1357 of you in china.
Also similar to a line from the song Up Against The Wall by The Whitlams:
She was one in a million, yeah
So there's five more, just in New South WalesRe: Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
#167I was pretty close to ordering a gift for the holidays until I saw the charge of $3.00 to NOT appear as a sample on your website. [1] Why are you making people pay $3.00 to NOT appear in your gallery of samples? Sorry, but that seems absolutely ridiculous and is a deal breaker for me. [1] http://imgur.com/a/RMcvV
What if he offered a discount of $3 if you agreed to appear as a sample instead?
Re: Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
#168I was pretty close to ordering a gift for the holidays until I saw the charge of $3.00 to NOT appear as a sample on your website. [1] Why are you making people pay $3.00 to NOT appear in your gallery of samples? Sorry, but that seems absolutely ridiculous and is a deal breaker for me. [1] http://imgur.com/a/RMcvV
Would you have agreed if it were a discount instead of an added charge? i.e. Yes is -$3?
Re: Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
#169I was pretty close to ordering a gift for the holidays until I saw the charge of $3.00 to NOT appear as a sample on your website. [1] Why are you making people pay $3.00 to NOT appear in your gallery of samples? Sorry, but that seems absolutely ridiculous and is a deal breaker for me. [1] http://imgur.com/a/RMcvV
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Re: Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really worth getting yourself to a gallery. Painting is applying pigment to a page using a liquid which then dries after it has been applied. This liquid could be water (for watercolours), an acrylic polymer compound (for acrylic paints) or linseed oil (for oil paints). The liquid used has its own properties which mean you can achieve different styles and textures. For instance, water colours absorb into the paper an…
And there's really no comparison between the leather in a Rolls Royce Phantom and the leather in a Honda Accord, and yet somehow Honda moves hundreds of thousands of vehicles a year. My question was not a refutation of the claim that original oil paintings are superior to prints. It was rather an honest attempt to understand the market opportunity of a business and whether the OP believes that a market for prints exi…
So here you say:
> Let me be clear- I have been to many, many world class art galleries.
Yet you claimed:
>No, never. I just asked about it because I heard the term once a long time ago, but to be honest I'm note even sure what an oil painting is.
and asked:
>Is it like the same thing they put in engines to make them run smoothly?
Src: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800067
How does claim to one visit "many, many world class art galleries" yet not know what an oil painting is?
I think you're just trolling now.