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Colourlovers Raises $1 Million To Make Everyone An Artist
- aepstein 15y agoWe were actually YC W10 :) (edit: original title referenced "YC W11")
- citizenkeys 15y agoI see now... CHROMAom was the original name?
- aepstein 15y agoYup, it's still our legal parent company name, but we found that when we told people we were CHROMAom they said "huh?", and when we said we were COLOURlovers they said "I know COLOURlovers!"
- ericwu01 15y agoCongrats to Darius, Aaron, and co.
- matdwyer 15y agoThis was the first startup I ever "signed up" for back in 2004 (before I even knew what a startup was). Amazing to see how much it grew in those 7 years. Congrats to everyone involved!!!!
- dariusmonsef 15y agoThanks for sharing the love!
- rayboyd 15y agoDitto. I've been using this site since Darius called himself Prettyboy on a little known forum. Been great watching it grow over the years.
- aepstein 15y agoOh, and we're hiring and we'd love to work with you! http://clrlv.rs/workwithcl http://clrlv.rs/workwithcl
- richcollins 15y agoApparently the new funding buzzwords are "mobile, local, social and color"
- sdf66 15y agoAnd "lean" isn't a buzzword? What's with the hate?
- dariusmonsef 15y agoPffft. We were into color way before $41M :)
- richcollins 15y agoNo hate. Just making a joke. Your Mac app looks really great.
- fishtoaster 15y agoAs a developer who is semi-color-blind but still likes to dabble in graphic design, I'm a fan of colourlovers. I can't pick a palette to save my life, so I just pick one off of there. :)
- MPiccinato 15y agoGreat site and great community. I use this site all the time to get inspiration from the color palettes. Congrats!
- pmikal 15y agoSo quickly people forget Adobe's free Kuler: http://kuler.adobe.com http://kuler.adobe.com
- carbocation 15y agoI had been under the impression that kuler was a knockoff of colourlovers, but I'm on my mobile and am having a hard time finding evidence.
- pmikal 15y agoKuler has been around since November of 2006 if I remember correctly....
- melvinram 15y agoHow will they make money?
- pacemkr 15y agoI don't know why there is hate in the comments. Just because the word "color" is involved, doesn't mean these guys don't actually deserve the -- much more reasonable -- funding. As a non-designer, I can testify that colourlovers is solving a problem for me. If they give me an even better crutch when it comes to design, I can easily see paying for it. Somebody mentioned Kuler. Kuler is actually not very good. It's flash based, lacks the polish, and I find myself incredibly frustrated every time I sit down to use it. Colourlovers, on the other hand, leaves me with positive emotions every single time. In my mind, the two are not comparable.
- fuzionmonkey 15y agoAgreed. There are a lot of "color scheme" sites, but Colourlovers is by far the best. I use Colourlovers all the time for color inspiration and palettes. Its a wonderful site.
- mitjak 15y ago> (if you’re interested they’re targeting hires in Portland — Monsef describes the hiring market in San Francisco as “pretty nutty”... A bit unrelated but does anybody else feel frustrated when a closing bracket is omitted in an article? Perhaps it is too much lisp exposure but I always keep scanning the text for that closing braket looking to find the end of the "scope" of the bracketed sentence.
- jp 15y agoBoth Colourlovers and Adobe Kuler have non-commercial palette API´s. I know, because I thought about supporting them in this - http://teppefall.com/products/colorspace http://teppefall.com/products/colorspace So they must be totally paranoid about traffic numbers, social hooks and brand dillution. And it seems to be a winning formula. Impressive.
- kilian 15y agoLooks like a very interesting app, but all the links (screenshots for each OS, clicking the screenshot itself) on that page seem to be broken.
- HardyLeung 15y agoCongrats! I use Colourlovers a lot and I think it's a great service. My application requires a lot of palettes (I can "themes"), over 200 of them, all of which come from Colourlovers. I tried to use Kuler, but it's just not as good.
- teyc 15y agoColourlovers is a cool site. I'm not a colour geek, but I can appreciate what darius has achieved (and congrats) with cultivating such a large community and I'm glad it has worked out financially well for the team. I'm just as curious as anyone how CL will monetize this since I'm not the target audience but whatever it is, it will be interesting to watch.
- gabaix 15y agoI was looking for an app like that. Ideas for monetization: - license technology to interior designers - sell trends data to paint retailers - build a deviant art community where people sell their pattern kind of hard to guess frankly ... more usage will help! definitely solves a good problem I had.
- BasilAwad 15y agoO wow. I've been having fun there and I didn't even know y'all were YC backed. Congrats.