Angelina YangFounder and Host, TwoSetAI · AI builder for visibility and discoverability

From Pivot to Viral: How OpenArt Was Born

22 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Angelina Yang. This content was uploaded by Angelina Yang. This is a YouTube video titled "From Pivot to Viral: How OpenArt Was Born" created on November 22, 2025. It features a narrative by a founder discussing the iterative process of building a product, specifically the creation of OpenArt, a community for AI artists, which gained popularity after being shared on Hacker News.

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Most of the founders, including myself, don't know what we are building from day one. And it takes a lot of iterations, takes a lot of learnings to really get to know what you are building. Because I'll tell you some of background stories. When we built Openr, I saw I was playing Dall E2 and stable diffusion came out and the idea was really simple because we were pivoting and we ran out of ideas to test and then we thought, oh, this AI image thing is interesting. And then so we were saying like, why don't we build a community for AI artists? So then like, because people just didn't know what to create for the AI images and we basically crawled a lot of AI images online and then end their prompts and then spent less than a week to build this site. And we wrote a title like Pinterest for AI images and put it on Hacker News and then it got viral.