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Show HN: I built a platform for artists to collaboratively illustrate stories
- joshdance 12y agoHome page kind of confusing. Is it for artists? Should I read the stories? Is it like an art contest? Why do I want to vote on the stories? The thumbnails displayed for each story look like classic art. Were those just created or is that some sort of guide?
- trongtruong 12y agoAh, good questions. The site is for both readers and artists. Readers can read the story, and artists can follow the links next to the images to contribute art. In addition to improving each other's art, artists can also improve classic illustrations, e.g. this one is by Ludwig Richter: http://bookses.img.s3.amazonaws.com/537bbdcc5222de07410000cd.jpeg http://bookses.img.s3.amazonaws.com/537bbdcc5222de07410000cd.... And this is by one of our artists: http://bookses.img.s3.amazonaws.com/537febd9a1a04da71c00000c.jpeg http://bookses.img.s3.amazonaws.com/537febd9a1a04da71c00000c...
- pkandathil 12y agoHey cool website but it is open to XSS. I see someone added an alert that says "hello world"
- trongtruong 12y agoWhoa, where?
- pkandathil 12y agoYou seemed to have fixed it. Good job.
- trongtruong 12y agoThanks :) I've heard of it before but never saw it in real life.
- trongtruong 12y agoAh, thanks very much!
- peacemaker 12y agoHey, this looks good. We created a similar site (wecombinate) to allow artists and writers to combine their stories and art but ended up taking it down after a year or so, just couldn't get the traction. There are probably a lot of lessons we learned which could help you with this. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to chat.
- trongtruong 12y agoI would love to! Talk to you soon.
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- Charrua 12y agoPretty cool! I agree the home page is confusing and if you click on the titles it reloads the page. The number next to the story are the contributors?
- trongtruong 12y agoYou mean the green numbers on top of the thumbs up? Those are how many votes the story gets. Every week we'll pick the top story and illustrate it.