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This is cool! One small UI recommendation would be to make the pagination (1 of 92) in the bottom right bigger and more prominent. I almost couldn't find it.
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll definitely add it to our considerations. Just curious, were you on computer or mobile device?
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…
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 bef…
Tagging onto this reply.. As someone with particular domain knowledge (I worked in the art world for years and have many professional artist and gallerist friends), I don't I've ever seen an online art sales platform that actually understand the purpose of an art gallery--for both collectors and artists. Galleries are not simply point of sale vendors for art. They establish a scene, they contextualize the art and the…
Perhaps they make large scale installations that are difficult to sell, perhaps they are performance artists, or perhaps they are simply having a down period in the market.
A good gallery will leverage the sales of their more successful artists to support the production of work by their other artists
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Tagging onto this reply.. As someone with particular domain knowledge (I worked in the art world for years and have many professional artist and gallerist friends), I don't I've ever seen an online art sales platform that actually understand the purpose of an art gallery--for both collectors and artists. Galleries are not simply point of sale vendors for art. They establish a scene, they contextualize the art and the…
This just seems like a justification of what the art gallery does for the art industry as it exists _now_, perhaps this isn't the best model anyway? I can totally see myself buying a painting from this site if it resonates with me, Im not particularly worried about how the single piece I buy forms a story with other pieces that I'm not going to buy, all I care is what it says in my room. In that regard the single big…
Here is a justification:
I would say that generally selling art is not the goal of artists. Yes, they want to be able to support themselves through making their art, but generally speaking their goals are likely some kind of combination of obsession with their craft and a desire to make it into the art canon and attain mass exposure via museum exhibitions/acquisitions, inclusion in biennales, inclusion in art history/theory texts, etc. Working with a good gallery helps to promote the (artistic) career of the artist and establishes their art as culturally significant.
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Tagging onto this reply.. As someone with particular domain knowledge (I worked in the art world for years and have many professional artist and gallerist friends), I don't I've ever seen an online art sales platform that actually understand the purpose of an art gallery--for both collectors and artists. Galleries are not simply point of sale vendors for art. They establish a scene, they contextualize the art and the…
> I have friends who have literally calculated how much it costs them per square inch to make a painting and it can be shocking. Any medium/cost data you can share?
The first thing the gallerist did was point out every painting that used the cheap oil paint. Now he exclusively uses Old Holland brand oils. some of which list for 300-500 USD for 225ml.
This looks really great, I hope you are psyched this post hit the first page. Everyone is fixated on pricing, I think the pricing is fine. Here are my notes: Vectorizing - I don't see anyway to share these creations with the world. Why not have a Pinterest share button? The looky-loos who will never buy anything can share these creations for you and generate free traffic for you. Put them to work. Also, encourage art…
> I hope you are psyched this post hit the first page
It didn't hit the front page organically; we place Launch HNs for YC startups on HN's front page. This is one of three formal things that HN does to give something back to YC in exchange for funding it. The other two are job ads and displaying YC founder names in orange to other YC founders.
I'm sorry this wasn't clear. More explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I'd like to open this feature to non-YC-startups in some way. It's not clear yet how to do that. Also, it would be hard to scale: we do a lot of editing to help founders write about their startup in a way that we think the community will find interesting. That's time consuming and we don't have a lot of spare resources.
That said, if anyone is planning to make a post like that which you would like some feedback about, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and ask. Just please understand that we can't reply right away—the inbox is constantly piling up (and a bit higher each time it does).
Isn't this literally Paul Graham's first startup?
This looks really great, I hope you are psyched this post hit the first page. Everyone is fixated on pricing, I think the pricing is fine. Here are my notes: Vectorizing - I don't see anyway to share these creations with the world. Why not have a Pinterest share button? The looky-loos who will never buy anything can share these creations for you and generate free traffic for you. Put them to work. Also, encourage art…
This is a great comment but I need to reply to one mistaken assumption: > I hope you are psyched this post hit the first page It didn't hit the front page organically; we place Launch HNs for YC startups on HN's front page. This is one of three formal things that HN does to give something back to YC in exchange for funding it. The other two are job ads and displaying YC founder names in orange to other YC founders. I…
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This is a great comment but I need to reply to one mistaken assumption: > I hope you are psyched this post hit the first page It didn't hit the front page organically; we place Launch HNs for YC startups on HN's front page. This is one of three formal things that HN does to give something back to YC in exchange for funding it. The other two are job ads and displaying YC founder names in orange to other YC founders. I…
dang, thanks for clarifying. I had a friend with a bed company years back with no affiliation do a Show HN and it must have organically trended. I didn't know you guys did that, and it makes sense that you do. I have no idea how you would open it up because then it would be like Product Hunt on steroids with 1,000+ inbound requests a day.
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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…
Kudos to the quick switch! Can see full prices now