Love the site, and honestly not unreasonable prices compared to galleries in my area (Chicago). Love the banana for scale feature!
Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists
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#92This is amazing!
Have you thought about adding details about what materials the artists used besides noting the basic supplies like “canvas” and “oil stick”?
As a buyer, some may be interested specifically on what colour name / brand of materials the artists used. And if ambitious, why they used those items over others?
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's that?
The failed startup Paul Graham did before the one that took off. It was putting art galleries online. Obviously you’re different, but it was close enough to make me laugh. Someone replied to me with the story.
Looks like you've made the first Artix reference on HN in 7 years:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
(The name has since been used for a Linux distro and a FPGA board, but HN Search supports omitting terms.)
A revived link to the site made pg go "Holy shit." in 2007. That doesn't happen often either:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411
Whilst searching, I ran across another Artix ("In 2002 I created the original AdventureQuest"). Also cool!
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#95Love the idea! Just some small feedback on your website: When I try to go back from your website, it keeps asking me to login. It's probably due to the fact that it automatically sends me to the /artworks page and when I try to go back it sends me to the / one, triggering the login popup.
Anyway, good luck!
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#96I really love the idea. I'd use it if this included artists from Europe (purely due to shipping costs that is, not that I have anything against US artists of course).
Maybe in the future, you could expand into the EU market..?
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#97Hitting the back button after initial visit gives me a login prompt. That's pretty annoying... https://imgur.com/605DZMN
At least on the front page, the site does a self-reload which breaks the back button. This isn't merely annoying, or a dark pattern...it's just plain obnoxious and something I thought was left back in the "stickiness" 2000s. That a login page is tacked onto this is a new twist though, I'll hand them that.
Thanks for bringing this bug to our attention. I'll make sure this is added to the top of our bug-fix queue.
Were you a guest user or logged in when this happened?
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#98My main qualm is the hijacking of the browser back button. I despise when sites do this, and I know I'm not alone.
Other than that the design is excellent. I like that you list SKUs on the main page and that there isn't a lot of cruft or excessive negative space.
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#99Nice launch! Here's some feedback: 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 filters. Because all the text was greyed out, at first I thought they were unavailable, like perhaps you have to first sign up for an account before you can use the filters. I would have liked the "size" filte…
> 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 filters. Because all the text was greyed out, at first I thought they were unavailable, like perhaps you have to first sign up for an account before you can use the filters.
> I would have liked the "size" filters to be multiple-selection; I wanted to see all medium and large art, but couldn't select both.
Thank you, this is super helpful! We'll find a way to make it more clear that those UI components are there and should be used.
> One suggestion: add the ability for some people to create curations. I know I'm not going to like a majority of the art that's listed, so being able to find a couple people with similar taste and browsing their selections would make it more likely I'd stay more engaged with the platform.
This is in the works!
> But perhaps I'm just not the target audience, too. I'm an art collector with a couple dozen pieces, in the $X00 to $X000 range. I prefer galleries to online marketplaces, because the curation provides real value to me; I consistently patronize the couple of galleries that match my preferences, and the limited selection in each exhibition reduces decision fatigue while providing reasons to come back consistently over time.
You seem like the target audience to me! This is insightful and helpful feedback and I'd love to talk more if you want: jf@artinres.com
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#100I love what you are trying to do. My family has a few artists in it (none full-time enough to pay the rent) so I have a visceral understanding of the passion that drives your idea.
After looking at several paintings, I found it difficult to get excited about any of them. Not because I didn't like them, but the web site just doesn't give the art presence. I mainly looked at oils and acrylics, and I could not get any idea of the brushwork, the texture. I just could not connect with any of them across the intertubes.
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 for examining the technique? More careful lighting of the photos in a way the best complements the art? It is a big challenge and I don't have any great ideas.
But there is something about being there -- we have all seen Munch's "The Scream" or Van Gogh's "Starry Night" a zillion times on the internet, on mouse pads, in cartoon parodies -- but actually standing in front of those paintings is an experience from another world. I want to get as close to that experience as I can when I look at your artist's works.
I think you need to up the curation somehow -- maybe some comments from the artist about the piece, or some very close images of exciting details.
Very sincerely best of luck, I hope you succeed for your artists.