![]() (It doesn’t seem like it matters for anyone else but me though…) So in the end we would build the best product ever. Most software nowadays is plain flat, digital and boring. It would feel realistic, tangible and human. It would have different rooms instead of a boring digital interface. We would also be a full social experience, customizable galleries, so you can have your own wallpaper, own frame and own painting surface, also having people share their work is really important to get motivated and spread the app. We would have incredibly innovative brushes, again I had one of the best guy (and the very same person I looked up to when I got started) on board. We had one of the best guy on board to make that happen. We would be the first real time 3D painting app. we wouldn’t just copy/paste what’s on the desktop and put it on tablet, we would totally revolutionize digital painting with a product that’s so innovative, technologically advanced and intuitive, that it will set a new benchmark for painting apps. I had great ambitions for that next piece of software. After all it’s a much better medium for a painting app. The idea was that if we couldn’t get people to pay on desktop, they’ll probably do on iPad. Guest speakers at various tech conferences and so on… The cream of the cream. With all that money raised, I hired the best people I could find, and those were technically super strong. We just needed to crack the code to get revenues. We had a great product, lots of recurring visitors. In the end I managed to raise venture money. So I joined a startup incubator and tried to learn how business works. Especially at a time where most software was cracked and considered free by most. Lots of visits and usage, but no one wants to pay for anything. I’ve tried a bunch of things but nothing worked. I also realized I needed to make money from the site If I wanted to keep it going. But that’s all I could find as initial funding idea. That may not be a moral thing to do to live at the expenses of others. I finished my last contract job and lived on unemployment benefits for 1 year. Lowering the barriers to creativity and allow anyone, able, disable, young or not to express themselves. Trying to revolutionize the way people create stuff. Then I wanted to pursue it and make it happen for as many people as possible. It’s an incredible feeling and I got hooked. Like ‘wow, I’m not so useless after all’ I could actually touch people’s heart with my work. I plan to have an “art gallery” within school of their work and your site is the catalyst!” ![]() Congratulations on having a way too cool site and I look forward to using your site as my students move forward. Your site is absolutely IDEAL for my students and how they can learn to apply their creativity yet maintain some form of reality (make sense?). Some are non verbal and intellectually challenged….others quite bright yet limited in scope and functionality. I teach Autistic students in high school with varying degrees of challenges. “I hope you will forgive the informality. It wasn’t a serious thing at the beginning until I started receiving emails such as this one: It would allow anyone with no drawing skills to make beautiful stuff too. So I just threw the website out there for fun and to have others messing around with it. I personally think we should keep the human component in the end and come up with ways to enhance human expression rather than trying to replace it with algorithms. I didn’t invented anything, I got inspired by Erik Natzke and others and went into my own direction. So I was using code to make pretty imagery. I like beautiful things but I can’t draw shit. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am too passionate about too many things for that. I guess we’re put in a box to be either a developer or a designer, or whatever and just do one thing. I was supposed to be a developer executing on others vision but I’m way too pathologically creative for doing just that. But I wasn’t really fulfilled by the type of job I was doing. Back in the day I was working for important digital marketing agencies doing interactive flash stuff. I’ve started Psykopaint as a side project 5 years ago. My name is Mathieu Gosselin and here’s my story: It’s both for you to understand and also because I want to get some stuff out there. I think you deserve some proper explanations and context so let me tell you the whole thing. Sorry for not being too entertaining in that email and to tell you that I won’t be able to develop Psykopaint any further. Thank you so much for all your support in those last 4/5 years. ![]()
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