Is it too late to build a "Spotify for art" in the age of AI?

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A swipe-based art discovery app — “Spotify/Tinder for visual art.”

It made me wonder about timing: Now we have infinite content + AI-generated images + recommendation systems everywhere

So is this idea: finally possible? or already obsolete?

What's your angle here? You're creating another marketplace for artists to sell their art. Since Etsy already exists, what are you giving me that they don't? And what will you do to stem the tide of AI slop that will inevitably arise?

Good question — my read is that it’s not really trying to be a marketplace (at least not yet ...).

It feels more like a discovery UX experiment — closer to "how do you browse art" rather than "how do you buy it."

Etsy is very intent-driven (you search for something specific), whereas this is more like: > stumble across things > build taste over time

Whether that’s actually useful vs. just another feed is still an open question.

The AI point is interesting too -- if anything, the explosion of generated images might make filtering and curation more important, but also much harder.

Not sure what the right answer is there — maybe the value ends up being in where the content comes from rather than the UI itself.

Well I'm glad you're thinking about it. Fwiw it sounds like an interesting idea to me if nothing else. Good luck and keep us posted!

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