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by nonameiguess 615 days ago
So, I figured as much that "one click" had to mean you've got image-manipulation software that will change the look of a photo of my home, as there is no possible way for me to re-design anything myself in one click or any other small number of clicks and brevity is kind of not really the point anyway.

It does seem useful for real estate agents, assuming buyers are going to be sufficiently swayed by simulated photos of what the inside of a house could look like even when they go for a visit and it's empty in reality, plus the photos seemingly wouldn't match the furniture and decor they actually own. The wording for people already living in a home is a bit specious, though, I'd say. Generating something that looks like a photo is not "bringing my vision to life." Life isn't a photo. Obviously, it's too much to ask you to give me a team of robots that can change my actual house as opposed to a photo of it, at least for a cheap price, but let's be real on the limitations of what you can do with this.

Does it have any connections to furniture and decor sellers such that the images it generates are images that even can be brought to life without me having to build everything from scratch? Does it know or try to estimate dimensions and show things that will actually fit? If I give it photos of all of my rooms, can it move furniture I already own between them to possibly give a better allocation than what I've got now?

Obviously, I could sign up and try to figure these out for myself, but I suppose the biggest issue is I have no idea who you are and see no reason I should trust you with photos of the interior of my home. Your entire page here makes not a single mention of data privacy.

2 comments

Thanks for your comment! It's really helpful for prioritizing future features. I find the idea of re-allocating furniture really interesting. Right now, the tool focuses mainly on changing styles, but I’m working on adding more features, like the ability to add or remove actual furniture from the space.

This is essentially an MVP, and I’m testing interest before building out more. (I could have just set up a landing page with a form, but I wanted to see the real engagement.) That’s why some elements, like privacy policies and terms and conditions, aren’t there yet—I'll try to add those this weekend.

By the way, I'm Paul, the founder of Mailead.io. You can find my Twitter at the bottom of the site!

Virtual staging is already a thing that real estate agents do, as long as the photo is watermarked as "virtually staged"