JohnFriel

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by JohnFriel 1y ago
This is interesting. Do you know what features the classifier is matching on? Like how much does stuff like whitespace matter here vs. deeper code structure? Put differently, if you were to parse the AI and non-AI code into AST and train a
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by JohnFriel 3y ago
This is a really compelling idea – but I'm having a little trouble making the leap from the high level description to what it would mean for my projects in more concrete terms. Would it be possible to show off some example tests that t
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
Wow, this blew my mind! I read all the pg essays when I first started programming so I must have read this at some point!
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
> To that end, I'd like a view where the focus is the art itself. This is something we've been trying to figure out! If you have an account, you can view this: https://artinres.com/recommendations -- you'r
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
> I love artists and design, and am shocked this has not happened yet, so Im rooting for you. I really appreciate it! And I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your questions. One aspect is that we're not business people looking at thi
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
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"
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
This is a great catch! Thank you for pointing that out.
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
> - 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 do
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
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?&quo
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
We take on the risk (it's one of the main reasons for our commission). If someone stops paying, either they send their artwork back to the artist or, in the worst case scenario, we pay the artist their full cut at a loss to us.
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
Totally with you on this. It's super annoying! We're working on a fix.
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
100% agree this is annoying. We're working on a fix.
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
Thank you! We're makers, so we built it. Here's the stack: - React & redux on the front end - Rails on the back end - Postgres & redis for persistence - Stripe (including Connect) for payments (edited for line breaks)
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
> 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
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
> 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
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
This is so cool – and so flattering! Hard to say when we'll be hiring next, but let's talk: jf@artinres.com
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
> - 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). We're considering adding more options like that. The only reason we ha
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
I love that idea!
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
It's US only for now, but once we figure out shipping and taxes we're excited to open up internationally.
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
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&#
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
Oh wow, thank you, this is really, really helpful to know! We're so used to the paying-in-installments piece that we must have gotten blind to the fact that people seeing it for the first time would think it's the total price. S
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
Thank you! This is great feedback. The filters are lower contrast because we want the attention to stay on the art. But they might be too low-contrast and introduce usability problems. We love sculpture and we're really excited to ha
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
Thank you!
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
If someone stops paying, they're required to return their artwork (we even used to frame the relationship as a "rental"). In the case of a truly bad actor that stops paying and goes MIA, we make sure the artist gets paid, eve
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
We take a percentage. For a given sale, 70% goes to the artist and 30% goes to the platform.
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by JohnFriel 6y ago
What's that?
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Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists
410 points by JohnFriel 6y ago|220 comments
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Several Essay Ideas(postcontext.com)
1 points by JohnFriel 11y ago|0 comments