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Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists

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Re: Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists

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Post by light_hue_1 »

JohnFriel wrote: post #51
RickS wrote: post #32

Edit: 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…

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 convey in those little artwork thumbnails and we've been struggling with how to cram it all in. We thought that two prices in that small space would be confusing –– but I think you're right that it was a mistake and we need to find a way to…

Please add this to the search as well. Searching by monthly price is nearly useless. I want to search by price and then decide how I want to divide up my payments. Searching for say, under $50 is really frustrating because I see things priced $1000 and $100 mixed in together. Most people do have a budget.

Re: Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists

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Post by JohnFriel »

gergles wrote: post #144
csomar wrote: post #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…

In addition to being NSFW, it's also a print, and I would be annoyed if I got it and didn't realize that. I think it's very easy to skip the line that says "limited edition print" especially given the material description being the original materials.

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

Re: Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists

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Post by JohnFriel »

alphagrep12345 wrote: post #112

Probably a noob question - but how do I know that I'm not being overcharged? As a matter of fact, how do I even know what's the right price for a piece of artwork? May be a long term thing, but I also think you should focus on expanding and growing your market size. Create blog posts, and videos on art, artists, art appreciation and advertize them. Educate audiance and get more people interested in it. That might per…

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 makes it hard for there to be a "correct" price. For the most part, we address this by letting our artists set their own prices (they have more information than we do.) Other factors that play in are the cost of materials and labor (often hundreds of dollars per painting) and the potential for the artwork to go up in price some day, like a stock.

Re: Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists

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Post by danmchugh »

queercode wrote: post #147

a lil bit of website feedback: on route change, please scroll the page to the top. if i scroll to the end of the home page, then go to "how it works", i'd expect not to be at the end of that page. love it, though!

Great find. I'm adding it to our bug-queue now. Thanks so much, I'm glad you like it despite our glitches!

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Post by danmchugh »

alphagrep12345 wrote: post #112

Probably a noob question - but how do I know that I'm not being overcharged? As a matter of fact, how do I even know what's the right price for a piece of artwork? May be a long term thing, but I also think you should focus on expanding and growing your market size. Create blog posts, and videos on art, artists, art appreciation and advertize them. Educate audiance and get more people interested in it. That might per…

> - May be a long term thing, but I also think you should focus on expanding and growing your market size. Create blog posts, and videos on art, artists, art appreciation and advertize them. Educate audiance and get more people interested in it. That might percolate to making your business bigger.

I love all of these suggestions! We're currently working on a content strategy that will cover a lot of the topics you mentioned. I agree there's a piece of education that is needed, especially in understanding the process of artists, why things cost what they do, we plan on doing more in-depth interviews, and hopefully videos that can convey a lot more information.

Re: Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists

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Post by elorant »

This could work well for companies that could lease art for exhibiting it in their offices. The artist gains recognition and a steady income, the company raises their prestige and can change artwork every couple of years, and everyone is happy. It has been tried before and failed, I hope you guys make it.
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