A gallery that opens in a fraction of a second, not twenty

Artinside is an online gallery and art marketplace where collectors buy works by established artists. The platform had been running for over two decades, and that was also its biggest problem: built in the early 2000s, it went years without technical care, with no contact with its original authors and no documentation.

For a business built on presenting art, this was costly in the most literal sense. Opening the gallery took up to 20 seconds - a long time for someone who came to look at paintings worth tens of thousands of zloty. The owner also could not add new features or position the offering better in Google.

Instead of adding more patches, we took the system apart down to its foundations, understood every step of the sales process and wrote the platform anew - on a modern, supported stack. The interface regular customers knew stayed as it was; we changed what sat underneath.

We deliberately skipped payment and courier integrations. With a modest order volume and large artwork formats, the owner handles bank transfers and shipping personally - cheaper and faster to launch than building those modules.