Cool idea. I wish if I send links to friends (via iMessages, Whatsapp, FB) that the link preview populates with the images of the page in question and not a general image. For the artist page, I would like it to show an image from the artist and for the link of an individual painting I would like it to show the painting in question
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#132I couldn't find a search anywhere, wanted to see if I could find some fanart for some of my favorite horror games like Bloodborne or Dark Souls. I hope you add it soon, I've been looking for a place to buy stuff like this.
I'd be surprised to see video game stuff pop up here, but you may want to check out Fangamer.com and iam8bit.com .
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#133I like the idea of making art more accessible by spacing out the payment. Congratulations on the launch! I won't comment on the art for sale, because I think it is too much in the eye of the beholder but I will give some feedback on your website and concept. - 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). - why are t…
The cut is too high for the platform. I guess you take this number from Google/Apple store's commission. The difference is software on Google's store has infinite leverage and takes almost 0 to scale sales. Every piece of art takes lots of work and cannot scale in the same way. Art works do not scale like software. With this cut, I feel your platform is taking advantage of artists (they do not know where to sell) rat…
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 skeptical and would ask "but how will you make money?"
I hear you that, when looked at in a certain light, it might seems high – but we work closely with our artists and they seem to all like that our incentives are aligned. Plus, we do our best to use that 30% in ways that benefit them, e.g. by guaranteeing that they get paid if someone absconds with their work without paying it all the way off.
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#134- 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 advertise donations as a selling point. I can donate myself if I want to.
- Also, do not penalize artists who do not want to donate to Covid-19. That's their business. They might be giving more, through other ways, to the community. They might be tight with money. Whatever. But the way the website is presenting it is that these guys are the generous guys.
- I don't know how New York is but this photo is NSFW and probably not so for families: https://artinres.com/artworks/marika-wagle-day-13-2020 You might want to have a filter for that.
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#135Oh wow! I can't thank you enough for this - as an artist it's something I personally want and I know many of my friends need - would love it if you'd put the artist application button somewhere more visible, people are gonna look for it. This makes me jittery, I hope I fell ready to submit an application soon. Any chance you expand beyond paintings? Thank you and keep up the great work!
We'll take a look at making the link more visible, agree it's a little less prominent right now.
We're excited to move into more types of art other than paintings. We currently have a small number of sculptures on the site, and have been taking baby steps towards other types such as limited prints.
Whenever you're ready to submit an application we would love to read it!
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#136Edit: huge props to the team for shipping a fix for this in minutes. --- I want to love this idea, but I struggle to get past the lack of full price when browsing. It says "$48 • 24 months" and expects me to intuit that the product costs $1152. Or rather, I worry that it expects me not to intuit that. Breaking the absolute price into a series of less frightening numbers to obscure the magnitude of a purchase feels sl…
Not to mention the fact that I suspect most people interested in purchasing fine art aren't exactly the type who care to finance the purchase.
I mean, anecdotal data ra ra ra, but this is super appealing to me, and I'll probably be making my first art purchase >$500 as a result.
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#137Spectacular! Well done on shipping a product/service which I've wanted for a long time. In particular the financing option will enable me to take the leap into the world of fine art for the first time.
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#138Edit: huge props to the team for shipping a fix for this in minutes. --- I want to love this idea, but I struggle to get past the lack of full price when browsing. It says "$48 • 24 months" and expects me to intuit that the product costs $1152. Or rather, I worry that it expects me not to intuit that. Breaking the absolute price into a series of less frightening numbers to obscure the magnitude of a purchase feels sl…
Not to mention the fact that I suspect most people interested in purchasing fine art aren't exactly the type who care to finance the purchase.
Used to work in an art gallery. Lots of people finance art.
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#140I 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..?
We see a lot of great artists from the EU, and other parts of the world (I'm from Europe!) As soon as we figure out international shipping and taxes we're excited to start onboarding artists in those regions.