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@danny_mcdonald · WaVE Accelerator Manager & Ark Apps

hah! This is one of those moments when you see an idea come to life that you thought about a while ago. I personally do not have tattoo's but I talked about this idea at a Startup Weekend last year. Did some minor market research and didn't really see it. I thought of it like a Pinterest only for the tattoo community. I find it fascinating how many tattoo parlors there are in my city and how they are able to stay in business and compete against each other. I also noticed tattoo's are just not huge elsewhere when I traveled around. I didn't see a lot of people with tattoo's in Latin America, Europe or Asia during my travels. I think the market is really glorified and accepted here in the US. Now that my vent is over, here are my thoughts! During my small market research I did on this idea, I got a lot of feedback to make sure that it feels like it's the tattoo community but just virtualized. I love the approach of using pure images. I barely see buttons/words here and I love that. Your work looks beautiful! As people post their tattoo's, I assume they can be archived by body parts, gender, color and more. Without digging too much into it, I also think there is a great opportunity for you to monetize the app and give tattoo parlors a business page. They already leverage instagram to show off their artists and this has been a game changer for parlors. All of a sudden I have friends that will travel from Florida to North Carolina because they found the perfect artist for them. This all of a sudden it becomes a strong platform for tattoo shops to make a more national and international push to attract customers to their door. If you can categorize the tattoo shops by location in the sense of US Region or State, you can see a nice incentive for the parlors to be featured. Then all of a sudden, this place becomes a huge searchable database for prospective people who want their first or several tattoos! Congrats on the launch! Love seeing ideas come to life :)