Daily painting: Pushing a famous painting every day

Abstract: The recent young version of the Mona Lisa is very hot, which reminds me of the "daily painting" this app. I spoke to 郗鉴, the developer of the daily paintings, today to talk about the development of these apps. As a regular contact with entrepreneurs and

The recent young version of the Mona Lisa is so hot that it reminds me of the app, the daily painting. I spoke to 郗鉴, the developer of the daily paintings, today to talk about the development of these apps. As a frequent contact with entrepreneurs and have heard a variety of entrepreneurial ideas, I admire their entrepreneurial thinking.

First of all, perhaps you know that the daily paintings are not developed by a professional team. 郗鉴 told me that the daily painting was just the beginning of his spare time with interest. At that time he was reviewing art history (plan for postgraduate), and then came up with such a painting as a wallpaper application, but colleagues no one to ignore him, so he himself did one, then became the prototype of the daily painting.

Coincidentally, last September, there was also a foreign application called Dailyart, whether it is the name or content, and the "Daily painting" almost (the daily painting is the October on-line, but the work started from September 1). But 郗鉴 said he did not know the application, the idea of the daily painting before, and later played "Assassin's Creed 2" also has a painting bridge paragraph, so after the clearance he quickly made. Dailyart has free and fee editions, interface design simulation in the museum to see the famous paintings, in addition to the painting as the content, its product logic and interactive way and "daily painting" is not the same.

After a good friend introduction, 郗鉴 met iOS engineer Liu Nian, two hit, decided to spell. Later, former colleagues in charge of product design Zhao Hope and the back-end architecture of the wandering, Wang Yuntao and test engineer Liu Rupheng also joined them, after many days of hard work, "daily painting" version 1.0 finally made out. On the first day of its app, the application of NetEase and other store recommendations, the effect is good, that night even caused their SAE owe fees.

They told me that from the very beginning, they wanted to do a useful, positive energy, teaching people good products, "The Daily painting" is such a "good and sound" products, rather than on the internet those who often break the bottom line, grandstanding things. And it is this idea that their engineers, products and QA have joined in, using their spare time to make a meaningful contribution.

The daily paintings will push a famous painting every day, then match the introduction of the works, users can download the wallpaper as a mobile phone, can also share, comment, or recommend their favorite works. In addition, you can also view the previous recommended works based on the date, the paintings are ancient, both East and west. And because the daily painting by default recommended can be used as mobile phone wallpaper, so many paintings show incomplete, if you want to see the full version can click the whole picture view, or download down to view.

For those who like art, "The Daily painting" is a very meaningful app. Through it you can understand, learn different works, painters and various painting styles. And the "beauty" of the product concept, but also let them insist on making a second application-"poetic."

"Daily painting" is the content of paintings, and "poetic" is the content of poetry. "Poetic" is not 郗鉴-led, but product designer Zhao hope the idea, because Zhao hope very much like poetry, and its iOS designers are often write poetry of literary youth, so this app is very fit their taste. Like the last app, "Poetic" is a daily push. You can like, collect, share, poetry is also East and west have, foreign poetry will have the original reference, in addition you can also recommend poetry (but on-demand page hidden more deep).

"Poetic" is also a display of true, good, beautiful products, now very few people like poetry, so they hope to be able to use the debris time, so that more people to understand, learn more poetry. But unlike the famous paintings, "poetic" there is no annotation, for this point, the PM's view is "1000 readers have 1000 Hamlet", so it is not recommended to annotate poetry. I personally like this, but if you add a comment is correct, at least for the ordinary people today, most of the education level and knowledge system is difficult to understand the meaning of poetry and its background.

and "Daily painting," The long-term limit is not different, "poetic" is still charging, 1.99 U.S. dollars (12 yuan), so far has not done any promotion. The daily paintings now have about 70,000 real users and about 1% of the users who pay to buy them. Weekly active users at 20,000 up and down, as a wallpaper class application active degree is very high. "Poetic" online two months, there are currently less than 6000 users, but are all paid users.

郗鉴 told me, they just want to "the good and the good" thing to pass to everybody, the thing that does is pure hobby. Everyone is using their spare time to do, neither want to rely on these to make a lot of money, nor want to deliberately to get users.

I like what they are doing, in the mobile internet threshold is getting lower today, I hope that more people can use their hobbies to make some "good and sound" things, to add a little beauty to the world.