[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewe...
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       Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery
        
       Designing is free and gives you a breakdown of material choices and
       costs, then you can get a quote if you want to buy the ring. I'm
       working with around 50 jewellers in London and the UK's Jewellery
       Quarter but I think just designing a ring is pretty nice.
        
       Author : camjw
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-06-24 13:38 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (hispi.app)
        
       | exolymph wrote:
       | Put the login gate after you generate a ring, not before. I
       | bounced immediately because it's not worth creating an account
       | without really knowing whether I would be interested. Let
       | potential users invest a little time and start dreaming, so you
       | can take advantage of loss aversion to get signups. Probably also
       | worth adding an option more lowkey than creating an account
       | (which I assume includes setting up a password etc.), like a
       | newsletter that aggregates the best designs every week.
       | 
       | Also, it wasn't obvious to me that the examples in the "Need
       | inspiration?" section were generated, or that I could tweak those
       | designs.
        
         | ranie93 wrote:
         | Agree. FWIw you can quickly put any email/pw to make an account
         | and it lets you through (i.e. no email verification)
        
           | camjw wrote:
           | Ha I only added this because my wife doesn't have gmail. I
           | think this is a problem I don't particularly care about for
           | now - I think the parent commenter is correct in saying that
           | the account wall is in the wrong place, so if I move the wall
           | to where the value is (speak to a jeweler) I can defer email
           | verification for a while.
        
         | camjw wrote:
         | Thank you, this feedback is so so useful to me. Login gate when
         | you ask to speak to a jeweller maybe?
         | 
         | > Probably also worth adding [..] a newsletter that aggregates
         | the best designs every week.
         | 
         | Yep this is a great idea, thank you.
         | 
         | > Also, it wasn't obvious to me that the examples in the "Need
         | inspiration?" section were generated, or that I could tweak
         | those designs.
         | 
         | No, its not. I will work on this too, thank you.
        
       | ojkewin wrote:
       | I asked it to "add a hamburger to the design" of a 'need
       | inspiration' example and it served an image of a ring with a life
       | like mini hamburger next to the jewel.
        
         | hagbard_c wrote:
         | Lucky you, I asked it to design a ring _like someone gutted a
         | pig and wrapped the intestines around a finger_ and all I got
         | was a lousy login prompt.
        
       | monster_truck wrote:
       | Takes too long to load
        
         | camjw wrote:
         | It does! I had this running on a potato and I didn't realise
         | people were actually going to see this! Very exciting!
         | 
         | EDIT: can you be a bit more specific about which part takes too
         | long to load?
        
           | monster_truck wrote:
           | The website
        
           | pockybum522 wrote:
           | This Serverless Function has timed out.
           | 
           | Your connection is working correctly.
           | 
           | Vercel is working correctly.
           | 
           | 504: GATEWAY_TIMEOUT Code: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT ID:
           | iad1::b6d7d-1751062063140-14fa915b731f
        
             | camjw wrote:
             | Thank you this is extremely helpful and now fixed
        
       | pockybum522 wrote:
       | I designed the wedding ring for my wife, so I had a specific ring
       | in mind to see how well it would do. I used the prompt:
       | 
       | A titanium ring with wavy rails on the sides, incorporating
       | flowers in the middle of the band, where the wavy rails move
       | farthest away from each other. The flowers should be a lily,
       | sunflower, and then a spot for a gem, followed by a lily,
       | sunflower, and then a spot for a gem and then a sunflower. The
       | flowers should be evenly spaced around the whole band.
       | 
       | And it got the basics right, looked good, but it put the gem
       | settings between the flowers, where the wavy rails were closest
       | together. I tried several attempts at putting prompts in the "How
       | should we modify this?" box such as "No, the gem settings should
       | be where the flowers are, but every other flower" and "Don't put
       | the gem settings at the points where the wavy edges are closest
       | together" and it just failed hilariously. After three attempts I
       | gave up.
       | 
       | It's a cute toy, but boy are LLMs not remotely ready for
       | production anything.
        
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