Closing the Factory, Opening the Gallery
We talked it over here in the PLW and decided to shut down Tiny’s public gallery, effectively closing the factory. In the coming week we’ll convert it into a curated collection. Luis and I will act as primary curators, though in the future we hope to add guest curators or even allow for an algorithmic curation via an API. The icon drawing tool is still available, and all icons submitted will be eligible for inclusion in the new gallery.
In just over one month we’ve had 41,000 unique visitors and 102,534 icons, 25,306 of them unique. It’s been a good run for the factory. Thanks everyone for all the blog links and traffic, now onto the gallery!
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October 18th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
you guys are awesome to put out a cool icon builder for the web, especially when you can post the icons for the public. in the gallery version, it will still be cool. i’m a fan of pixels and icons, so if you ever need a curator…
also, if i click Save, do the icons get submitted to you? or do i have to email you a .gif?
October 19th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Hey Brent,
Found this site on a Chappie message board that Owen and Dustin put together.
Anyway, long time no see. I had no idea you were going to MIT these days.
–Geoff
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Merhaba Brent, I think collaborative curating is good way to go. I think the question is, how do you balance filtering vs. curating?