Hey everyone! We're looking for feedback on [Dabble](https://dabble.style), an e-commerce solution we are building that lets you visualize and design your living room with furniture from multiple stores at once.
Here's the background:
Shopping for furniture online is like stepping into the black hole of the internet. I recently moved into a new place (during the lockdown). I spent weeks browsing tons of online stores trying to find things that would match and look good in my room, only to buy nothing. On top of all that, I found the same products being sold by multiple vendors at hugely varying prices.
So we decided to try and fix this by looking at how people shop for furniture in-person. When you're in a store like IKEA, it's easy to visualize how things might look together, but it's hard to explore a lot of options. On the flip side, shopping online seems like it should be easy, but feels like stepping into a warehouse full of furniture as far as the eye can see.
We're trying to pull the best parts of a showroom experience into an online tool.
One aspect is being able to see how multiple items look in a room together. We built a furniture collection generator that shows you multiple items together in a living room setting. One tap of the space bar presents a new living room collection instantly.
Another aspect is customizability. Dabble allows you to swap out furniture in any of the collections to create and save your own combinations. Don't like the lamp we show you? No problem, swap it with one of the hundreds we have.
Our thesis is that if we can solve these problems, we can build a much better furniture shopping experience than anything out there today.
I clicked “Start designing” and the site required me to sign up and log in. I don’t yet know what I’d be signing up for. So, my suggestion is to make the core functionality work anonymously, then prompt me to sign up when/if I try to save whatever I’m doing. Basically, make me care enough to sign up :-)
Hi Troy, good point. So actually, when you visit a collection you can click on stuff and see info like pricing and dimensions on there. When you try to change something it prompts you to login. I suppose we could do that for the homepage as well. Try this link:
https://app.dabble.style/collection/i31m5vKYzdGmw7zm12cu
That's definitely closer to what I'm talking about. After trying that link, I think my suggestion is a little different. I should be able to "Swap it" without an account, because for a brand new user, the app's goal should be to let me build something that's novel enough that I want to save it (beyond my browser's session cookie).
When I see "Unsaved" in the UI and I care enough about it to click "Save," the app has done its job -- and it's the perfect time to ask for my email address :)
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[ 12.9 ms ] story [ 568 ms ] threadHere's the background:
Shopping for furniture online is like stepping into the black hole of the internet. I recently moved into a new place (during the lockdown). I spent weeks browsing tons of online stores trying to find things that would match and look good in my room, only to buy nothing. On top of all that, I found the same products being sold by multiple vendors at hugely varying prices.
So we decided to try and fix this by looking at how people shop for furniture in-person. When you're in a store like IKEA, it's easy to visualize how things might look together, but it's hard to explore a lot of options. On the flip side, shopping online seems like it should be easy, but feels like stepping into a warehouse full of furniture as far as the eye can see.
We're trying to pull the best parts of a showroom experience into an online tool.
One aspect is being able to see how multiple items look in a room together. We built a furniture collection generator that shows you multiple items together in a living room setting. One tap of the space bar presents a new living room collection instantly.
Another aspect is customizability. Dabble allows you to swap out furniture in any of the collections to create and save your own combinations. Don't like the lamp we show you? No problem, swap it with one of the hundreds we have.
Our thesis is that if we can solve these problems, we can build a much better furniture shopping experience than anything out there today.
Feedback? Questions? Ideas? We're all ears!
When I see "Unsaved" in the UI and I care enough about it to click "Save," the app has done its job -- and it's the perfect time to ask for my email address :)