artwise - soft launch
Working with ever growing art inventory in different storage locations, sales information and statusses, overviews became increasingly difficult. When researching for solutions, pricing became an obvious factor of exclusion.
Working for a small gallery with limited funds the solution was clear: expand my coding knowledge and create what we need myself.
On growing the catalogue of general functionality the next step was obvious: making it a SaaS product for young artists, galleries and collectors with small budgets but with the core functionalities provided by bigger competitors.
As a soft beta-launch, artwise is now open to the public in hopes of constructive feedback on the overall UI, UX and core features.
That is true. I guess marketing is always a hard process in any case.
Within our reach we have a few that voiced their interest way before I was close to an MVP.
But somehow I am still reluctant to to give it to them, since the ones clostest to me are the ones I want to disappoint the least.
Let's see what the next month brings in term of feedback from the "outside world".
Nice work turning a real need into a product. The challenge might be in positioning though. Small galleries and artists often rely on simple spreadsheets or cloud storage and may not actively search for inventory software.