Ask HN: Outfit Generation App
Hey there, it would mean the world to me if you could leave a quick opinion on this app idea.
The application would let you provide photos of your closet items, and depending on your target look/style of the outfit, it would recommend few outfit ideas based on your items.
Would you be willing to pay money for this?
Or do you know someone, or a group of people who would be interested in using this product?
Thank you for your time, have a lovely day!
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I am not sure how well it did or if they are still selling it.
This probably isn't a group that really cares about fashion. Maybe if you lived in New York, but outside of that, most of the engineers I've met (US west coast) just wears random shorts and t shirts.
If you actually show up in something fancy, you'd stick out like an imposter or marketer or lawyer.
I definitely wouldn't pay money for this. But there's probably a strong regional and class component to this that I've just never been a part of.
I doubt there’s a third group that is interested in style but unable to match their socks to their polo shirts, and willing to go through all the work of signing up, taking pics of what they own, and then paying for your service to get advice…
But: OP will be starting from zero. And even if he had 5.8 M lurkers, which he doesn’t, how many would sign up to his service, take pics of 100 items in their wardrobe and then be confident enough to receive good advice to pay for it?
I have no idea, but if almost 6 million souls want advice on Reddit, maybe there is indeed a potential market.
If I could guide you in a different direction:
Closet Management. I _would_ like tips on how to improve how I dress but I don't want my style to homogenized or labeled.
What I would want is essentially a local or cloud software that knows what I have in my closet, can manage what I have (is it dirty, is it clean, when did I last wear it, how worn out is it), can find new items that can integrate into my clothing, and will improve automation of this part of my life. So I can either present something to the visual AI and it judges it or I can have it optimize my clothes for the day for the weather and it will pick it out for me so I just have to put it on. Ideally, it would be a mode I toggle on where I don't even have to prompt; integrate it into my smart bed and it pops a notification of what to put on. The intention long-term would be having RFID tags in your clothes so the human doesn't have to manually maintain what's in the closet.
I think others have covered why catering this to 'fashionistas' likely won't work (it's their passion, they _want_ the effort). What you could likely cater to is people who want to look presentable and are somewhere between "vaguely knows what colors are" and "understands matching and style but wants to put it on cruise control".
The ground floor of the business is just the normal SaaS fee ($20+ / month easy). The upsell of the business is the maintenance of the closet ("your shirt looks worn out, can I buy a new one?" "Yes"... three days later, brand new shirt appears in their mailbox) along with either sponsored or partnered sales ("I think this belt would look nice with this outfit, it's $80, can I buy it?" "Yes")