Hey HN,<p>Obviously we are experiencing a surge of stable-diffusion based apps at the moment, but I have yet to see anyone try and map the outputs onto actual physical products that can be delivered to your door.<p>I wanted to make it easy to:<p>- pick an artistic style<p>- hit 'record' and speak into your phone / tablet / desktop or whatever, and describe the kind of design you want your clothing to have (since speaking is more spontaneous that typing)<p>- swipe among a variety of mockups (t-shirts, hoodies etc.) featuring your design, and order it to your door with the click of a button<p>The product is called 1SEWN. Fulfilment is currently achieved using a print-on-demand service called Printful (<a href="https://www.printful.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.printful.com</a>) that I have integrated with.<p>If you guys would like to try it, I would love some feedback. Shipping is currently limited to outside Europe, but even if you are in Europe, your feedback about the whole UX would be much appreciated!<p>Much love,<p>Matt
IMHO, anyone who enjoys entering text via speech already uses it as a feature of their operating system (I know android and iOS both have dictation buttons). Most people don't use these features however, for good reason.<p>I wanted to try it out, but unfortunately I don't even have a microphone on my current device.<p>I just want to see some example prompt/output combinations!
The idea of using stable diffusion to create a t-shirt is compelling, but the execution here leaves a lot to be desired.<p>Randomly, I picked the stencil style and went for "Man with beard base jumping from the Eiffel tower." It produced one really poor image. It wasn't stenciled looking at all.<p>Next I went for pop art and used the prompt "Frog riding a motorcycle". The art style looked like something that an 8 year old would draw, not Andy Warhol (which I believe is the artist in your screenshot).<p>So I think you have some work to do in taking the inputs from the user and crafting them into better SD prompts that generate outputs that look like t-shirt artwork and in the styles they're supposed to be. I'd also drop the voice prompt support, no added value here. Definitely would prefer to type it on my computer and mobile keyboards already have a voice-input button.
Many complained about voice-only input. I want to highlight a few other aspects that could be improved:<p>1. Navigation doesn’t work. Sometimes swiping right goes to the next page, sometimes doesn’t. Then you are stuck on the 3rd page and can’t go back.<p>2. What are points? I have 5 points, got to the payment step - the T-shirt is $25. How am I supposed to use points?<p>3. The T-shirt that is displayed as a 3D background is completely different from the low quality generic fit design at the end. This discrepancy is off-putting.<p>4. The tiny final print is unintelligible on my phone. Some squiggles and circles that I can’t make sense of at this resolution/zoom level.<p>I think the idea of custom fashion is interesting, but this implementation doesn’t feel empowering at all. Feels limiting and gimmicky. More importantly, the result - a generic T-shirt with a very small print is not fashionable or even attractive.
This reminds me of my failed business idea <a href="https://indivicia.com/" rel="nofollow">https://indivicia.com/</a><p>The problem with printed shirts is that everyone expects them to be cheap-ish. And the Printful quality is low enough that people were upset at a $50 price point. The only tshirts that sell for higher prices are branded ones, e.g. with Marvel characters on them. But then you're effectively selling copyright infringement as a service. And your profit margins will be low overall because Printful and their shipping are rather expensive.<p>In the end, and with external help, I then acquired and ran <a href="https://meowbikinis.com/" rel="nofollow">https://meowbikinis.com/</a> for a while. Profit margins were insanely better. Until the lockdowns in China started and the last leftovers of my stock spoiled inside a rented fulfillment center...
The input does not do speech to text well. I would like to use this service. Let me type my prompt.<p>I tried 5 times and every time it messed up what I said. My os has a good speech to text tool and I would use that if I wanted to talk a prompt.<p>The site is cool and it’s a neat idea, but forcing microphone use is weird and ineffective.
I expected it to somehow fill the entire shirt, but apparently it just makes a rectangular patch of the image on a plain black/white shirt.
Also, the speech to text doesn't seem to do that well.
Sorry, someone already did it <a href="https://www.thisshirtexists.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thisshirtexists.com/</a>
Related HN launch <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33082472" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33082472</a>
What's the reason for the "everywhere except Europe" shipping? I'm guessing some legal/regulatory thing, but would be curious to know the details.
Great idea - I actually did this manually already by generating an image and uploading to vistaprint. One thing I noticed was that it’s hard to generate images with no background so you could consider automatic background removal as a value add over the standard image generation algorithm.
Thanks for the mentions everyone. I've already launched text2shirt some weeks ago - no need for audio, online and serving shirts and hoodies:<p>www.thisshirtexists.com
Not giving microphone access unless it’s something _I_ need, not the website.<p>Would be great if you could add text input as an alternative to voice input.
> You have denied audio permission. If you want, you can always go to your 'settings' and allow it to fully experience this site<p>Weird phrasing. If I don't want to I can't experience the site at all.
For those that want a text box, I've used <a href="https://thisshirtexists.com" rel="nofollow">https://thisshirtexists.com</a>, works well.<p>Insane that OP's site works with audio <i>and only audio</i>. I mean, who thought the more complicated way to enter text should be not only the default, but the only option at all?
Having a voice recognition interface for something I could type (more accurately) in 10 seconds is very off-putting. I don't use Siri for a reason.
You're going to get sued in the US if you try to market this thing and require voice input. This is potentially a huge accessibility issue.<p>You've essentially eliminated (most) people who are deaf and people with speech issues from being able to use your product.<p>It's a neat idea and the design looks like it could be nice but I can't really get past the first page because I cannot use it (no mic attached to this device and I wouldn't want to grant you permission to it anyway.)
An important question to ask yourself before you launch a product: when you look at the final result, do you personally think that it delivers on your value prop? If you don't think so, then users, who are often more critical, definitely won't either.<p>"you don't have to be a fashion designer or graphic artist to create amazing clothes that express your personality. Whether you want to print a simple design or something more complex, 1SEWN makes it easy and affordable to get the perfect item, every time"<p>Do you think a generic white T-shirt with a small print of a low artistic quality is really expressing anyone's personality? Or that it looks like a "perfect item"?
We are living in the future. In the next iteration, I expect direct connection from my Neuralink to the Creative gods of AI Metaverse.
Why speak at all. This is for babies.:)
> map the outputs onto actual physical products<p>But wouldn't that be more like an actual 3D printed cat instead of a picture of a cat on a t-shirt?