Looking for early feedback — 21 users, first paying customers just came in
Six months ago I was in the middle of renovating my house and couldnt figure out if the things I see at my local store or on amazon would look good in my room. I am not a very creative person so I did the best thing that any non-creative person would do. Scroll pinterest - for ideas about how an aesthetically pleasing room looks like. And I did find some really good looking rooms that I would love to recreate in my actual study room. But these were just ideas. I wanted to see some of the things from the pinterest images into my room, some artifacts, test out some rugs that I saw online with the tiles I have at my place.
So I did the next best thing a non-creative person would do. I tried out a couple of AI interior design apps that I could find. Someone would have figured this out in this realm of AI in 2026. I kid you not I started to see a ton of ads about these AI interior designer apps all over my instagram feed.
Every single one did the same thing. You upload your room photo, pick a preset/vibe that you would like to see and wait for the generation.
The only thing all these generated photos lacked was the soul I was looking for. I did not want to apply a useless preset in my room and get orgasms of how my room could look like. I wanted something practical. I wanted to see the furniture I select, placed in my room with proper positioning. On top of that I wanted to iterate and compare over ideas of room with all the blurry ideas about the furniture I had in my head before I put an amount to buy them.
I did finish my renovation and it took a while to build what I wanted in the first place. This is when I started building decorb.
What we built is pretty simple - you upload your room, then upload a photo of whatever you are considering to buy (it could be a tile, a paint that you want to see on the walls of your room, a rug, a coffee table image from amazon, a bookshelf, a night lamp, etc) and see it placed in your room with your room dimensions so that there are no fuzzy thoughts in your head about buying these expensive furniture. You can then iterate over with your ideas - replace the sofa with a different one, change the false ceiling to another design, add a wallpaper on the wall in front of your fireplace. Its up to you to then imagine things up and get to your dream space.
We also added something for interior designers - one of the pain points of interior designers are 2d sketch to actual renders. This could take them 3-5 days with a freelancer in between which would give them the renders from the sketch. We would do it in under a minute. Tbh, I am not someone who is from a designer background but I have some of my friends who actually started using this.
We're at 21 users right now. Our first customers came in just a few days ago. Small but building something practical. All the users had one thing in common - they intuitively knew how to use the app. No handholding required.
I wanted to build something that is dumb enough for the users to know how to use it and practical enough to actually solve their problems.
Still really early. A lot to figure out.
If you have renovated recently, or work in real estate, or are an interior designer - I would genuinely love to hear your feedbacks specially the harsh ones. Another thing I would love is for you'll to try the app, try breaking it, try using it for your workflow, tell me if there is something that you would love to see it the app - decorb.app