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Travel + Hackernews = Art Sumo
After 4 years working for the man and reading hackernews religiously, I decided to quit my cushy day job and create Art Sumo while working from the road. I am happy to announce that I am launching ArtSumo.com today.
I would be glad to answer any questions from fellow hackers over email - naysawn@artsumo.com.
www.artsumo.com
- JonLim 15y agoSigned up, looking forward to trying it out. However, once you sign up for the waiting list, you seem to be locked out of the About page, which would have been nice to see again. Just making sure you knew! Thanks.
- volandovengo 15y agoThanks for the heads up Jon.
- tutu 15y agoawesome, good for you. Where were you working before, and why'd you decide to leave?
- volandovengo 15y agoI was at good old MS (please don't hate me for it). I wanted to travel more and have my own business so, I made the jump.
- aaronbrethorst 15y agoLooks interesting. Can you say more about it? What made you build this? How did you build this? What's your revenue model?
- volandovengo 15y agoThanks! I can't say much right now but will do a full disclosure tomorrow.
- jasonmkey 15y agoWould like to learn more. Is this a daily deal site?
- vertr 15y agoHow about passing some invites out to HN users?
- volandovengo 15y agoGood idea! I don't have anything set up right now but if you email me, I'll give you an account.
- brianbreslin 15y agoclickable http://www.artsumo.com http://www.artsumo.com
- brianbreslin 15y agoquestion, what made you decide on the name?
- volandovengo 15y agogetting a good and cheap domain name is a real pain! I liked ArtSumo but also consider painthut, dailypaint, and theworldpaints. what do you prefer?
- brianbreslin 15y agoi think i like dailypaint better. artsumo reminds me of appsumo
- v0ter 15y agorad, great idea
- volandovengo 15y agothanks!
- tjsnyder 15y agoI can't find anything about the purpose of the site or what it is for outside of "hacker news and travel." If you want people to sign up, you should be a bit more convincing.
- kcros 15y agoI'm thinking Naysawn might be trying to pull a "hipster" here--the site that got 10,000+ signups without people really knowing what it was about. Curiosity can be a powerful motivator.
- vertr 15y agoThe site is daily deals for art. Screenshot: https://img.skitch.com/20110504-qapc7hwhpyaf2gapbg67bd375e.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110504-qapc7hwhpyaf2gapbg67bd375e.j...
- nametoremember 15y agoAh, I thought it was a travel site.
- sktrdie 15y agoThis is just some pictures and a login form, you gotta be kidding me with all the points! I've posted interesting things on open-source software I've implemented, and barely got a couple of points. I'm jealous!
- Jd 15y agoPaintings and photographs are not the same.
- vertr 15y agoAfter getting into the site, and seeing that's basically App Sumo for Art, I'm a bit torn. The name seems really off considering there is already a company with a very similar name in the daily deals space. Also, I feel like by using such a similar name you set my expectations for design and functionality much higher (and they were let down). Seeing as you are running a daily deals site, why do you need the invites system? I would think that you would want to reap the HN traffic and launch traffic instead of coercing people to invite their friends.
- sebkomianos 15y agoMaybe you should give us HN folks a few codes to get in earlier? I shared on fb and twitter nevertheless, sounds and looks interesting.
- volandovengo 15y agoHey Seb - you should now have access. Thanks for tweeting it out :).