SeedCamp Finalists Chosen (The European Y Combinator-like seed fund)

Re:SeedCamp Finalists Chosen (The European Y Combinator-like... by utnick on Thursday August 30, 2007 @07:22PM (#48502)

These predictions are spot on mostly

But... I have to disagree with your artflock prediction, I think there is a market for this. A few weeks ago I was trying to buy art from local artists on craigslist for my new apartment, it was a pain though, because I had to click on each link to see the painting, I couldn't search very easily on genre or artist, and I had to wade through a bunch of postings for van gogh posters people bought from posters.com etc

Not sure if this is where they are going with that service, but a craigslist for art would be helpful to both artists and buyers.

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Re:SeedCamp Finalists Chosen (The European Y Combinator-like... by rms on Thursday August 30, 2007 @08:43PM (#48530)

There is also http://www.etsy.com which is for anything handmade, which includes art.

I browsed Artflock and saw an artist saying "Email me at [email protected] so we don't have to pay the Artflock fees." That's a bad sign.

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Re:SeedCamp Finalists Chosen (The European Y Combinator-like... by palish on Thursday August 30, 2007 @08:38PM (#48527)

Website ideas that are "X subset of Y service" seem to fail a lot judging by how few of them exist. In this case, that would be the "art subset of Ebay".

However, it all hinges on the execution. They may find success in catering to artists better than Ebay or Craigslist can, but that seems much riskier than if they built a new kind of service.

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