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Artchive
Inspiration
Many new and existing artists are deliberately working to express their art universe and publicize their work. However, it’s always challenging to catch people’s attention, and only a few succeed. To address and solve this problem, we aim to bring attention to lesser-known artists and artistic communities through giving equal opportunities to showcase everyone's artwork and even funding them directly through our platform Artchive.
What it does
Artchive has 2 pages.
The main page is a gallery of the latest artworks by artists with diverse backgrounds and histories. Every artwork shown is randomly ordered so that every artist can have an equal opportunity to be showcased. The artworks are scraped from other websites that has trending artworks. We intentionally left out all of the information except the artwork itself, which might help identify the artist to prevent people from having any assumptions before looking at the information of the art by clicking it.
The information page shows the artwork and its descriptions. People can see which artist created this artwork and see other artwork created by the same artist that may interest them. This way, artists have a chance to feature their other artworks and concepts that they have been working on. On the other hand, the audience can find out the genres that they are potentially interested in and find any other existing artworks that may interest them, like Spotify’s song recommendation algorithm.
How we built it
We built the frontend by using React and built the backend by using Google Cloud Platform.
Challenges we ran into
We initially tried to retrieve images directly from Instagram, but it didn't work. We believe that it's because of the security permissions. However, we did find another way to make our idea work and are satisfied with it.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It was our first time working on an art-related project, and we learned a lot about the art ecosystem. We are proud that our platform works and would be helping lots of artists that may get featured on our platform.
What's next for Artchive
We are planning to add a fundraiser function to our website so that people can directly support their favorite artists, and in the future, this may expand to the NFT market.
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