[carterac]

Thanks for the feedback. Our goal is to make all the world's art freely accessible and so in the short-term we are more focused on building our database and the Art Genome Project than a particular audience. In the long-term we intend Art.sy to be a tool for collectors to more easily discover new artists and galleries, and more easily purchase art. This commercial activity will ensure that Art.sy remains free for the 99.9% of people out there who will never buy art, but don't currently have access to it, particularly lower income and rural demographics who live outside of major city centers.

The collection feature is just for saving your favorites. Although expect some major upgrades to that soon.

Also, I wouldn't be a good founder if I didn't mention that we are looking for interaction + visual designers (we believe in bringing both together), software engineers, and art world professionals:

art.sy/jobs

We're also really into open-source. You can check out our projects here: http://artsy.github.com/open-source/