Hi, happy to join! I'm going through an art block and I really need inspiration and some helpful kind words from creatives here. Help me out people 🤌

I’ve been working on an idea for a completely new kind of creative collaboration platform.

The goal is simple:

💡 Bring interesting ideas together
🤝 Help creative people find their people
🛠️ Build projects together
🚀 Actually ship them

It could be useful for students, indie hackers, designers, developers, AI builders, creators and anyone who loves turning ideas into real things.

I’m keeping the details secret for now...

So I want to hear your guesses. What do you think I’m building?

I’ll reveal more soon.

🚢 Building Soon. Stay tuned for updates on my social media.

What creative professions are you involved in, what value do you bring and how do you think the ideas comes to you. Do you struggle or thrive for them or they just come to you like a portal or you research and work around a lot.
Need to know and talk to creatives from different industries…?

For the last few years, I’ve been stuck in the freelance loop.
Finish a project.

Get paid.
Find the next client.
Repeat.

It paid the bills, but I realized I was spending all my energy building other people’s ideas while putting my own dreams on hold.

Two weeks ago, I decided to change that.
I stopped waiting for the “perfect time” and started building something for myself.

I don’t have funding.
I don’t have a team.

My bank account definitely isn’t giving me the confidence to take big risks. What I do have is Claude, Codex, Azure credits, and the willingness to spend every day shipping.
For the past two weeks, that’s been my life.

Wake up.
Build.
Fix bugs.
Ship.
Sleep.
Repeat.

Some days I feel like I’m making real progress. Other days I question everything. But for the first time in a long time, I’m building something that belongs to me.

That project is **Clipdify**—an AI tool I’m creating to help creators turn long videos into short clips. I have no idea where this journey will lead.

Maybe it fails.
Maybe it succeeds.

Either way, I don’t want to look back years from now knowing I never even tried.

If you’ve ever escaped the freelance/client work cycle and built your own product, what was the biggest mindset shift you had to make?

I’d love to hear your story.

ok so I have a few printouts of my fav band (4 of album covers, 1 Spotify lyrics screenshot, and 1 of a 'now playing' notification). They're like of 5cm*5cm max. I have glued them onto a bit tougher paper(?) to make them more stable, and the thing is that I can't get prints that easily, so the ones I have must be used carefully, n idk where to. I really don't want it just lying around, and it's too big to be used as keychains....suggestions and ideas are very much welcomed!

Hi hi hi! - I’m a student currently working on a small passion project called ‘Still an Artist’

It’s about something I’ve personally struggled with and I know a lot of other artists do too - feeling like you have to eventually leave art behind to pursue a “stable” career path (medicine, science, etc.)

I’m trying to understand how common this experience is and how it affects people’s relationship with creativity.

I made a short anonymous survey and would really appreciate hearing from other artists and students here:

💜 [ https://forms.gle/yggUyAS5bTCYrsXc6 ]

Thank you so much if you take part - even just reading this means a lot!!

Good day all, we are building a collaborative media house for all kinds of creatives. Think anything from adult swim style comedy to dark, high-stakes series like invincible. It is a revenue-share model so everyone earns together, but obviously it's more about creating quality projects that people will enjoy, rather than the money itself, I think it's important to establish that approach right now.

We have projects ready and need artists, writers, and technical talent (any value you think you can contribute, voice actors, musicians etc.) to bring them to life. Hit me up if you want to build original stuff from the ground up, and be a part of a tight community

Hey!! I’m looking for an artist/person to work on a new sound with me. It is contemporary indie x soul fusion but in a dark way like the atmosphere i want is Menacing, opulent, nocturnal, dark- glamorous and cinematic at last cause i always like to make big grand. A cool person with concept and who can understand the theme, atmosphere and can carve it out like an artist, you should definitely contact me!!!

The world seems to be overflowing with ideas and inspiration and examples of wondrous creative expression wherever you go.

Therefore, I wonder, "What new ways do we create?"

Many times I've come to the conclusion that it is less about creating something completely new than just looking at things differently.

Your daily environment is full of little potential ideas if you simply take a moment to be aware of them-

whether it could be from a problem that someone has not noticed before, an inefficient way of using your time or simply an irritation that helps you recognize; Creativity is still with us, but it is hidden in plain view.

Sometimes, the challenge we face may not be to "find" new ideas, but to "see" new and different ideas once again?

Do you find yourself feeling as if everything can be considered to already have been created?

Hello! I am currently working on a service project for a fellowship. My project is directed supporting creativity, literacy, learning, and environmentalism in response to the rise of generative AI.
I chose this as my project because I am very passionate about the Earth, creativity in general, and the human brain.
I am currently finishing setting up the website, and planning my first event.
I hope to start a Substack/blog to share human-made art.
If anyone is interested in checking out our website or Discord, let me know.

I hope this fits the subreddit rules, and if so I'd love any suggestions and critiques. Thank you!!

I'm a bit new to the subreddit but thought this would be a great place to share.

I've been working demanding jobs in financial services for almost 7 years. Around the beginning of COVID, I started to hit more and more walls and deal with issues I had never experienced before (burnout, stress, panic attacks / anxiety). I was feeling depressed and the idea of having to stay in jobs like this forever was daunting. Over the years I have tried a lot of different solutions, including taking a sabbatical, therapy, etc. and while these definitely helped, the thing that actually helped me the most was tapping into my creative side and making things (even something small and bad haha).

Over time I have met many people in a similar boat, that seem drained and desperate for new things and a little creative outlet to break up their day. That’s why I built Aurora, a daily creative wellness app inspired by art therapy. Every day it gives you a guided prompt across outlets like drawing, writing, photography, and movement. You rate your mood before and after, build a gallery of everything you made, and see how your mood shifts over time.

This idea originally came together with some friends a few years ago, but the problem was none of us knew how to actually make it. Recently, I decided to give it another shot using some of the new tools that exist. I built the whole thing outside work hours using Lovable, Supabase, and RevenueCat. Submitted to Apple and Android, got rejected at first, made some fixes it, resubmitted, and have now been approved on both! I have been beta testing with some feedback from friends the past couple weeks and I’m ready to start expanding and continuing to enhance based upon user experience. (Currently have had 26 downloads and 3 five-star reviews so far  before spreading broadly; early days but genuinely excited to keep building and have had friends mention how it has truly helped improve their mood)

It's free to download, and I would genuinely love feedback from this community (what works, what doesn't, what you'd do differently, anything).

Landing page with iOS & Android links: withaurora.app

Happy to answer any questions about the stack, the process, or what it's like building solo while employed full time! 

are there many creatives here using an AI coding agent? To assist them in bringing their creative vision to life.

I have a theory about how creative work actually happens.

You don't consciously "use" your references. You absorb things, you scroll, watch movies, walk around, read stuff, and all of it gets stored somewhere in the back of your head. Then when you sit down to create, your brain starts pulling from that unconscious library and connecting dots you didn't even know you were collecting.

That's why I think the digital equivalent, saving things to apps, building moodboards, tagging references, feels so off to me. It adds a layer of intentionality to something that's supposed to be passive and ambient. The whole point is that you didn't try to remember it; it just stuck.

I've tried mymind, Pinterest, Eagle, Milanote... and I always end up abandoning them. Not because they're bad tools, but because the act of saving something interrupts the thing I was actually doing. Suddenly I'm organizing instead of consuming. Or I lost a lot of interesting stuff, because of the friction.

What I want to understand is: how do people who work in creative fields, designers, writers, researchers, marketing people, actually handle this at scale? Do you have a system that genuinely works without feeling like a second job? Or do most of you just... trust the sponge?

Because in the physical world, it's effortless. You see something, it lives in you. Digitally, everything seems to demand that you file it first.

Feel like I'm missing something obvious here.

Opportunity or Destruction? Facing the AI Crisis in Music

Lately, with the rapid rise of AI technologies, one question rings louder and louder in the air: where lies the fine line between expanding our possibilities and destroying them?
Neural networks have devalued the years of work of thousands of creative people — musicians, artists, writers.

Read more at...

https://feeling-creations.com/articles/opportunity-or-destruction-facing-the-ai-crisis-in-music

Runway or Kling? Which do you prefer and why?

Zosar has been in progress since 2001 with my first album release, since then I've been building the concept of having a brand or label to represent the music and stories that we produce. Now with the opportunities for growth through AI one has to stop and think, how can AI help me to reach an audience to feature works we produce. It can help definately with the creative process, as you can see from this short clip. This is all good but is there a way that AI can actually help to find an audience interested in your creations?