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Show HN: I built a platform for artists to collaboratively illustrate stories

bookses.com

32 pointstrongtruong11 comments

Hey, 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.

I would love to! Talk to you soon.

Home 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?

Ah, 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.... And this is by one of our artists: http://bookses.img.s3.amazonaws.com/537febd9a1a04da71c00000c...

Pretty 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?

You 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.

Hey cool website but it is open to XSS. I see someone added an alert that says "hello world"

Whoa, where?

You seemed to have fixed it. Good job.

Thanks :) I've heard of it before but never saw it in real life.

Ah, thanks very much!

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