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Dabble — Canva for interior design
Dabble is an A.I.-assisted creative tool for interior design.
Clip products from anywhere (online or offline), visualize them together and track your budget in one place. Dabble helps you organize your furniture shopping and design your home like a pro.
Clip products from anywhere (online or offline), visualize them together and track your budget in one place. Dabble helps you organize your furniture shopping and design your home like a pro.
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@rrhoover awesome! If you're buying (or renting) multiple items, mixing and matching them is exactly where Dabble fits in. I'd love to know what you think of the experience overall!
This is awesome! What do designers use today instead of Dabble? Also, is the app usable for consumers or only interior designers?
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@theanisamirza Designers today use a combination of things - PowerPoint, Canva, Photoshop etc. It's mostly a hodge podge of graphic design tools that were never intended for interior design. The devils in the details and there are a ton of things you need to do to create a room design in those tools. We're streamlining a bunch of tedious tasks for designers but at the same time making it easy enough for consumers to use. That's why I like the Canva analogy. I can design a resume in it, but a professional graphic designer can also create a company branding kit with the same set of tools!
Hey Makers! 👋🏽
After months of hard work, we're thrilled to finally launch Dabble! Thanks for hunting us @katmanalac!
✨ What is Dabble?
Dabble is an A.I.-assisted creative tool for interior design. It lets you clip furniture and decor products from anywhere online, design your space with them and manage your budget, all in one place.
💡 The problem we're solving.
My wife and I bought our first home in 2020 and decided it was time to be adults and buy some non-IKEA furniture for the first time. We didn't realize it then but we were in for a rabbit hole of infinite scrolling, Googling, and endless arguments over what looked good together, fit our space, and came in under budget. Many vendors have AR design apps, but they're limited to their own inventory, and designing in AR is painful for longer periods. We wanted to build something that was simple, web-based, and worked across all vendors, even local stores. That’s why we built Dabble.
⚙️ How Dabble works
When you clip a product via our Chrome Extension, Dabble scrapes the product details and auto-removes the image background. You can then design an entire room with the products you've clipped, and Dabble makes it really easy to mix and match products and visualize various design options to find one you love.
🔥 Why is this important now?
We are currently in a renaissance of creative tools powered by A.I. From A.I. copywriting to image editing and deep fake videos, it's going to completely change how content is created. Sam Altman (@sama) recently tweeted about this. With Dabble, we're extending this idea to designing physical spaces.
🏆 The Dabble Golden Kitty Design Challenge 🏆
We thought it would be fun to run a design challenge for the PH community! Remote work became the new norm last year and our work-from-home spaces have become our sanctuaries.
➡️ The Challenge:
Design your dream work-from-home office
➡️ The Prizes
3 Winning designs will win gift cards totaling $1200 to any home store of their choice!
🥇 GOLD: $500, 🥈 SILVER: $400, 🥉 BRONZE: $300
➡️ How To Participate
Design the most epic home office space you can imagine, on Dabble. Flex your creativity. Minimalist? Maximalist? NFT inspired? There are no rules, except -
Your design MUST include atleast one GOLDEN KITTY 😻 as decor
Here's one you can copy.
Tweet your design at us at Dabble.
We're also looking forward to seeing your designs in the comments. 😀 Here's a sample design I made. https://app.dabble.so/share/Ymsh...
➡️ How will the winners be selected?
Our team will pick the top 3 designs submitted by November 22nd (11:59 pm PST). Winners will be announced on November 23rd.
I hope you enjoy designing with Dabble! We'd love to hear your feedback and we're psyched to see how many ways you can design a room around a Golden Kitty 😻
I've been using Dabble for my personal remodels for a while. What I really love is the ability to track budgets. Usually when you're remodeling or just revamping a room you start with a budget and then lose all that information as its spread across carts and lists different platform. Dabble puts all of that into one place and it's also helped me understand the cost of my current rooms. The chrome plugin works really well and you can add items from almost any site, I even added items from amazon into mine.
Here's a remodel I'm currently working on for my work area, a mix of World Market, Crate & Barrel and West Elm furniture. Definitely over my 3K budget, going to have to toss out some trinkets later. Threw in a golden kitty on my top shelf for aspirational reasons.
https://app.dabble.so/share/SjrG...
@syedahmedz That looks amazing! I'm glad you're enjoying Dabble! We had to work a couple of tricks to get Amazon working well haha. They don't like scrapers and hide most of their pricing data from Google
Congrats on the launch! My family will be moving soon to a new place. This seems like a great tool to prototype interior ideas!
Congrats on your launch. Interesting niche.
I'm trying to understand where Dabble would go next or can it exist just as a quick mood board builder. I'm on the other end of this space working with furniture manufacturers. Creating 3D models of products for use in renderings, draping, sectional configurators, etc. This is sort of in between room planners and the product visualization solutions.
@clarkchambers That's a good question. Our plan was to start simple, with 3D but our longer term vision is to let anyone scan their home, analyze it and make design recommendations based on personal style and spatial context. That essentially means we're interested in solving two problems - the 3D perception problem and the style recommendations problem. I'd be very interested in chatting further about how we could leverage pre-existing 3D content from vendors like what you're creating in our design tool as it evolves
@neilxm Well good news for you is that the furniture brands are embracing 3D more and more. I've been in the space for almost 3yrs now and its honestly getting a little crowded with 3D model providers/platforms. I'm battling 6-7 competitors instead of 2-3 now lol. There's more funding happening too. Most brands are not using their 3D assets beyond their own sites. It's still early and furniture is a huge space. I'm happy to chat with you whenever.
@rajiv_ayyangar Thanks Rajiv!! I wanted to be able to design a WFH space worthy of being my Tandem background hahah
Dabble is a super interesting tool for a very complex problem. It really takes the design/inspiration part of buying furniture and makes it super easy to play with different options all while staying in an online editor. The fact that it works on literally any website was enough to get me to use it.
I've seen the work that this team has poured into this tool and it really shows in the progression since it was initially started. +1 from me :)
?makers Love it! Is there an API for services that would like to optimize the ordering process with the help of your product? :)
@maria_batryn We're considering this! There's two things we could do:
1. A Shopify plugin for vendors to integrate a design tool into their own sites
2. An inventory API to integrate store check out directly into Dabble
What do you think might be a better strategy?
@neilxm We do not sell furniture, but we will benefit from letting our clients create mood boards from the images of furniture models we have. Do you think it will be possible in the future? Here's our product, hope it helps in understanding - https://www.producthunt.com/post...
@maria_batryn That's really interesting! I'd love to chat about this more. We're already working with several interior designers and home stagers (individuals) and we're just starting some market research with vendors and design marketplaces and such. I'd love to get your thoughts on potential integration ideas.
Hi everyone, Nav here from the Dabble engineering team. It's been a ton of fun building Dabble over the past year and seeing how much the product has evolved since we got started. Over the course of developing the product there's been a ton of interesting problems to solve!
One thing that we've emphasized at Dabble is using ML to make the little things easier. As an example, we noticed that most websites have a ton of irrelevant images (banners, logos, duplicates of different sizes, etc), that would fill up our clipper extension when trying to save a product. Different vendor websites are inconsistent with how these images are laid out, and so we decided to build and deploy an ML-based system in the browser to bubble up the "best" images to the top. We've called this system HeroNet (since it finds the "hero" images), and it looks to prioritize images of furniture with clean backgrounds facing forward, at an angle, or sideways, over context images and closeups. Below is an example of how our extension ranks images, compared to Pinterest! We found that this reduced a significant amount of friction in the clipping process, and is one of the many ways we're using AI to help make things a little easier when you're designing your dream space.
As a small startup, we're always looking for creative ways to supercharge our product using AI, and this is definitely something we're planning to continue doing as we move from 2D to 3D and work our way to a future of spatial e-commerce. If you're working on something similar or have any questions about some of our tech, leave a comment below! Always happy to do a technical deep dive :D
As a small startup, we're always looking for creative ways to supercharge our product using AI, and this is definitely something we're planning to continue doing as we move from 2D to 3D and work our way to a future of spatial e-commerce. If you're working on something similar or have any questions about some of our tech, leave a comment below! Always happy to do a technical deep dive :D
@thomas_lo1 Thanks a lot Thomas! I love the social curation approach you've taken with travis and we're considering something similar for Dabble as well! Community created shoppable designs to make it easier to find furniture collections that aren't limited to a single vendor.
Nice! Lease ends in a few months - thinking of moving then & honestly was concerned about layouts & furniture placements. This is really good - are you folks eventually thinking of integrating with furniture brands, for the B2C side?
@jtorion Awesome! I'd love to know what you think! We're testing a few approaches right now. We could do both embedded tools for vendors and inventory integration APIs to plug vendors into the Dabble design tools. I think distribution wise it's good for us to work with vendors and amplify our voice a bit through them, so I might start there first! Let me know what you think
Dabble has been amazing as we've switched to WFH, and we had to rethink our space + redesign several areas. I've been loving the chrome plugin, and been using it to pin certain furniture items (to find through sales l8r). Also, the automatic transparency on images is pretty cool (ie no need to use photoshop to remove solid backgrounds).
P.S. Couldn't resist designing yet another dabble. Using it as a vision board, really need that Moroccan desk:
https://app.dabble.so/share/REpS...
@iba_masood2 Thanks Iba! That design is epic. Love the desk and I especially love that you added an iMac on there haha! Customer success for us is when users design their WFH spaces so well that they don't need virtual backgrounds on Zoom anymore
@neilxm One change that would be amazing, the "add item" button is really hidden UX wise. Would be great if it was more discoverable. Since it's right next to the search bar, I automatically assume it's to add items that I find via search, vs from my downloads.
Your app is just incredible. Most of all, in your application, I like the function of adding furniture using simple pictures. However, I don't quite understand who and how edits the pictures. I can assume that your AI works with images, but I'm not sure? It would be much cooler if you could create and edit designs not only in 2d space but also in 3d space! I'm sure doing room planning will be much easier and more enjoyable in 3D space. However, you will most likely have to make a new AI that will be able to create ready-made 3d objects from 2d images. I'm not a programmer, so I can't even imagine how difficult it will be to make such a bot. But I am sure you will succeed. I wish you good luck!
@johnie_wilson We thought the same! The issue is that there are a few 3D design tools out there but they suffer from a few problems. First, 3D interfaces are not very user friendly for most people. There's a lot mouse manipulation needed just to do a basic design. And second, you can't just bring in items from any store. The inventory needs to be limited to vendors that provide 3D models, which immediately shrinks the design freedom you can have. We decided to make the trade off for the initial version and stick to 2D, but we're 100% planning to do 3D very soon :)
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