photoX® Community · OpenEcom in practiceLive
Picked by the community. Pressed in metal.
photoX® Community is a marketplace for art on metal where the audience decides what gets made. Artists submit, members score, and the highest-scored works become prints.
How it works
From a submission to a wall.
Submit
Artists upload a photograph, a painting or a digital work.
Score
Members score each work blind. The artist’s name and the running average stay hidden.
Press
The top-scored works of each round are pressed onto ChromaLuxe® aluminum.
Earn
The artist earns a share of every print sold.
Why this model
Demand first. Production second.
Most products are made, then marketed. Community reverses the order: members tell us what they would hang, and at what size, before a single panel is printed.
For artists, it is a path to an audience and an income without holding inventory. For LinkPrint®, it is on-demand manufacturing with the guesswork removed.
Artists
A gallery with names on it.
Every pressed work belongs to a named artist with a profile, a body of work and followers. Photographers, painters and illustrators apply, and each application is read by a person.
For GoodPreview
Prints that give back.
For Good, now in preview, lets artists give part of their earnings to a cause with donations matched, and auction the first print of a work for charity.
Built on our own platform
A store on OpenEcom.
Community runs on OpenEcom, with scoring, auctions and analytics delivered as plugins. It shows the platform can carry a business far more involved than a product catalog.
See OpenEcom
The storefront behind Community is open source.
OpenEcom is the commerce platform we build in the open. Community and photoX® are where we put it to work.