vfp media is a service built for artists and makers by artists and makers. Our goal is to support artists in their mission to make their
artistic endeavors viable and profitable. We support artists and makers by providing ecommerce, and portfolios for 10 dollars + per month.

at vfp media, we Believe Art is for Humans and should be made by humans. We are strongly against the use of AI in digital art, and 3d art as well, 
we encourage the use of making things by hand or using
non AI technology to produce products, which is why we have a vetting process designed to make sure artists are and continue to create using
their own creative genius. we go through every step to make sure art is protected, using nightshade to poision models and monitor suspicious traffic
to find potential AI artist users. the more real artists we have the better we can seperate the legitamite artists from the prompters using every
piece of data possible to weaponize it against AI.

One of the main reasons to create this website was to help make artists independant of third party platforms. in the age of AI creating a website
is now easier than ever. however not everyone has the time or wants to dedicate themselves to learning how web technology works. artists are then
forced to outsource it to other companies who provide all in one solutions and make it easy and attractive such that they can take everything away, 
etsy will nickel and dime you for just hosting products on your website. at vfpmedia, we only ask that you use modern compression using webpng, and keep your 
inventory less than a few hundred products, videos are fine too. just keep them under a minute, and use webm.

etsy, square and shopify will also charge 20+ dollars for something that a simple payment processing api can be down in a few hours by someone whos done this 
several times before. word press is a complicated solution and can possibly work as a free option using woo commerce,
however vfpmedia has technology already in use that can be retrofitted and redesigned 
to fit most ecommerce, portfolio, and blogging situations, that are much faster and uses more modern technology than wordpress.
as someone who has breifly worked in wordpress there is no shortage of jobs asking for page speed requirements. our solution is lightweight, clean and responsive.   

how does this service work?

first if you have a website, you give us your website, and domain name, and we work with you to migrate it to our personal webservers. you only help us pay the rent and
keep our lights on to run the business. our goal is to use the profits and reinvest the into advertising to grow into a community of real artists to be enjoyed by
real people. we will most likely convert your website to run on node.js, but if you insist on keeping the original website technology, and just use our service as managed
hosting we may need to give you special provisions for that which would increase the cost, or potentially give you a private server also increasing your costs. the costs
would be negated if you used node.js, and used the xxx.vfpmedia.com subdomain as this reduces the amount of complexity we deal with.

once your site is migrated, we simply make sure it stays running for as long as you keep paying for it. we will have a ticket system to which you can email to 
vfpmedia@airmail.cc if you have any issues or need help. Expect a timely response within 24 hours and in the case of wanting us to build new features for your 
store or leave issues related to the node.js store vfpmedia@airmail.cc is a valid place as well. and in the future a matrix chat will be added for vfpmedia 
clients and workers.

if you don't have a website, a basic blog, portfolio, ecommerce,website will be provided for you at no cost, and a free subdomain of your choosing.
(i.e. artistnamehere.vfpmedia.com) at this time we are only working with artists we know in meat space in Kansas. we will set you up with stripe, and you will then
be able to take payments online with your store, as long as you update inventory. (website dashboard and hosting dashboard in the works..)
so long as you pay use 10 dollars per month your web presence and store will be there. much like shopify or any other hosting service. website customization will be 
you. we recommend using qwen or gemma AI to help you design elements if possible. should you need our help with design, we can help at 25/hr though since i am one person
i would easily be booked and would probably hire it out to a fiverr person or you could as well.

we may eventually  provide customization of the website with a builder, but were betting the AI future will make websites easy to make and thus we want artists to feel
free to experiment with their websites and share hosting with us much like we would share rent together.

Status: ALPHA;

Roadmap.

We hope you'll join us.

are you tired of Etsy fees and costly store fees and paying almost 100 dollars per month just to keep your business alive on the internet? work with us, and we'll let
you do what you do best. creating content that enriches the lives of others while not being bled out like pig for your money. all you have to do is send us an email 
and we'll send you updates about VFP media. 