TenderScrape

I launched a proof-of-concept shop to validate my AI-powered art tools (and it's already helping me pay for school)

I recently launched TenderProof, a curated digital art shop that sells themed bundles of public domain artwork — but it's more than just a storefront.

It’s my proof-of-concept for a larger system I’ve been building: TenderSuite, a set of tools that automates the entire process of finding, filtering, and packaging public domain art using AI and code.

The problem:

Public domain art is abundant — but messy. Sourcing high-res files, cleaning metadata, filtering out irrelevant works, writing listings… it’s a time-sink.

What I built:

Over the past month, I created:

✅ TenderScrape – a script that pulls high-res art from museum archives with full metadata
✅ CLIP-powered filtering – to ensure aesthetic & thematic consistency
✅ Packaging tools – that auto-generate artist cards, how-to-print guides, and Etsy-ready listing CSVs
✅ TenderProof (the shop) – where I validate these tools by selling curated art bundles on Etsy and Gumroad

Why this matters:

Most people try to sell digital art on Etsy by hand — I wanted to automate it end-to-end. TenderProof proves that it works.

Now I’m testing if:

• This system can generate real income

• Others would pay for access to the tools

• There’s a market for done-for-you, resale-ready art bundles

So far:

🖼️ 6 curated bundles live
💬 4+ in-cart events with no marketing
💻 Writing tools to release soon on Gumroad
📊 Goal: $500/mo by September to help cover school costs

Open to:

• Feedback on the product direction

• Collaborations (especially indie sellers, devs, and marketers)

• Early users / testers for TenderSuite

• Advice on making my first few sales

Would you buy something like this?
Would love your honest thoughts.

👉 Shop: tenderproof.com

I'm B, a student and creator building systems to help artists, curators, and indie sellers work faster with public domain content.

Today I’m launching TenderScrape, a tiny tool I built to solve a very specific pain I kept running into while curating art for my own shop.

I work with public domain museum art, especially from The Met. But the process of building a usable archive was brutal:

• Manually downloading images

• Renaming every file

• Copy-pasting metadata into a spreadsheet

• Organizing folders for print or digital bundles

I spent more time wrangling images than actually curating collections.

⚒️ The Solution

I built TenderScrape to automate the boring part:

• Search The Met by keyword (e.g., “mythology”, “goddess”)

• Download only high-res public domain images

• Auto-rename files using the artwork title

• Output a clean CSV: title, artist, year, medium, source URL, and filename

It's made to be fast, minimal, and easy to plug into creative workflows — whether you're building a print shop, a zine, or a visual archive.

The Launch

• I released it today on Gumroad: TenderScrape v1 – $29 Launch Offer

• It’s part of a bigger idea I’m calling TenderSuite — a set of tools for people who remix culture and bring old art into new formats

• I’m hoping to hit my first few sales this weekend and collect feedback from early users

Thanks for reading — and if you’ve ever built a tool just to save your own sanity, I’d love to hear your story too.