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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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I 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 .

I would personally love to see more video game inspired art, there are so many great styles we're yet to have applications for as we're still a relatively new site. We carefully consider all styles of art when artists apply.

If you are interested we have an artist on the site currently that is influenced by video games: https://artinres.com/artists/lee-mora

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#162

My 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.

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

We have shipped a fix for this now. Apologies for the frustration it caused.

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

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I 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…

The relevant comparator is SaatchiArt online, which takes a 35% cut.

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

#166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checked out the site - looks awesome! Is there any way to filter? It's cool at first glance looking through the whole selection on the site but could see it getting tedious the 2nd time+.

Thanks Changdizzle! There are a few ways to filter—you can filter by medium by clicking the "Photography" "3D" or "Illustration" boxes, or you can filter by artist by going to the Shops page in the top nav. Or, you can search prints for tags. Did you have something else in mind?

I'm thinking more orientation / ratio - for example, right now the wall behind my couch in the living room is bare and I would love a landscape print for it. On VSUAL I have to manually scroll through to see the ones that have that orientation. This is something that Art in Res has on their search function.

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

#167
John, this is an industry with a huge graveyard of failed startups doing the same thing. And the only ones left - Artsy, just went through a huge firing and recapping and I wouldnt give them long. Leaf group is trying to get rid of Saatchi in a fire sale and ArtFinder is barely break even with a team less than a dozen and making money from charging artists.

So given this idea does not seem different than the many before (and far from the 10x YC talks about when the needed improvement of a product to win a space), what am I missing?

Is there an underlying technology, unique community angle, or do you believe the timing wasnt before from the time of Artix to 2019 but 2020 is the year.

I love artists and design, and am shocked this has not happened yet, so Im rooting for you.

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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…

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

#169

Inability to hit back button is a killer to me. Instantly got into panic mode and scared to visit again :(

Thanks for highlighting this bug. Sorry it made you panic! We're adding it to our bug-fix queue as high priority.

We've shipped a fix for this bug now. Thanks again for letting us know about it. Hopefully you can continue browsing un-hindered!

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

#170
I love this idea and I'm sure you'll figure out the pricing stuff eventually. I have to admit the whole focus on price kind of throws me off a bit. Whenever I go looking for pretty things, be it art or furniture or decorative objects I rarely start by looking at the price – I look at the thing itself and if it strikes a nerve then I figure out things like "can I afford this?"

To that end, I'd like a view where the focus is the art itself. Not who made it, not what it costs, not even the name of the piece. Let me discover that as I go, show me full screen pictures I can swipe through on my screen, and tap or click to learn more about the piece. Make the art the focus and put everything else in the background, Not even showing it till I'm interested in learning more. That's what I love about going to galleries – the art takes center stage and if you want to learn more there's a tiny sign next to it, and if you want more still you talk to whoever works there but the art comes first. I feel like your site is trying a bit too hard to make a sale. I absolutely agree that artists should be paid for their art, and I'm happy to pay for art that I care for, but ultimately I just want pretty things. Show me the pretty things first, then let's talk business when I find something I like. I'm sorry if this comes off as too callous!

Also – and this is probably a really difficult problem to solve – I don't really know what I'm looking for in art. I just know some things I like, but probably not all. I love Monet and other impressionist painters, but I also love old Japanese woodblock prints like the great wave. I'm also a huge fan of cubism and I can't get enough of art nouveau. I'm not a huge fan of abstract art, but I like some. I love evocative photography, especially in black and white. I feel like maybe my taste profile fits a multi-spoke radar chart, where each data point is a relative preference rather than a binary I like this or that type tick box filter. I'm not exactly sure what I mean by all this, just that your search does nothing to help me, and I'm probably not gonna spend too much time looking at page after page of stuff that may or may not be interesting to me. I would 100% subscribe to a feed that fits my profile though, and especially so if it's smart enough to also understand other types of art I don't know about, but perhaps might fit my profile anyway. I guess what I'm saying is, if your site could be my personalized art dealer, there's a good chance I'll spend more money then I probably should.

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