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

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

mueller··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
VP Data Science, Qriously, London, ONSITE

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