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Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

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Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#11
I like this very much. I would use you guys at the $600/mo price point for two rooms in a home in Austin, TX that I will be inhabiting for four months.

The lead time is the problem (along with the pricing in CHF). I want this today and not 10 weeks from now (more than half of the period of the rental).

Cool idea. I am concretely interested but not at that lead time.

If anyone has American recommendations I’d be thrilled. I’ll probably use inhabitr otherwise.

Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#12
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Interesting concept. I have an office I could see this being useful for (though possibly a bit out of my price range, if I'm honest). One thing that stood out to me though is that all the examples were similar style (mid-century modern, maybe? I'm not a designer). More examples showcasing a range of styles could entice different clients. Research into styles in various regions (ie beach rentals vs ranch style vs miss…

You're absolutely right, we currently only offer three distinct styles (https://pabio.com/get-started), although our interior designers get to know you better and design something that's unique for you. We are currently doing photography for a few more case studies with different styles, stay tuned!

> Research into styles in various regions (ie beach rentals vs ranch style vs mission/craftsman).

For sure! We plan on adding several more styles in the future. The only thing that slows us down is creating the right furniture set and reliably sourcing items that will remain available to us. I love the beach-style idea!

Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#13
post #9

Interesting concept. I have an office I could see this being useful for (though possibly a bit out of my price range, if I'm honest). One thing that stood out to me though is that all the examples were similar style (mid-century modern, maybe? I'm not a designer). More examples showcasing a range of styles could entice different clients. Research into styles in various regions (ie beach rentals vs ranch style vs miss…

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Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#14

> Why work at Pabio? > You’ll work mostly with cool people (Not all of us are cool, but the majority are.) Seriously wondering who the uncool people would be and what it would be like to work with them

Why would they even say that: "There are uncool people here, beware." Obviously not everyone in a workplace can be "cool" but I see no point mentioning it.

Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#15

I like this very much. I would use you guys at the $600/mo price point for two rooms in a home in Austin, TX that I will be inhabiting for four months. The lead time is the problem (along with the pricing in CHF). I want this today and not 10 weeks from now (more than half of the period of the rental). Cool idea. I am concretely interested but not at that lead time. If anyone has American recommendations I’d be thril…

> The lead time is the problem (along with the pricing in CHF)

We're currently only available in Switzerland, so the pricing is in CHF. I hope we're un Austin soon though, you're the second person who told us that they'd be interesting in using us there!

> I want this today and not 10 weeks from now.

I very much agree, this is something we're working hard on. Furniture is not a great asset class since warehouse costs very quickly outweigh revenue (large and bulky!), so everyone in the supply chain is incentivized to reduce inventory risk as much as possible, which basically means everything is ordered on demand. This is the reason why you usually have to wait 12 weeks for a sofa when you order it online.

We try and do it quicker, at around 4 weeks (sometimes even earlier, in case of super-urgent apartments, we've even furnished them within one-to-two weeks), but we're exploring ideas to make this faster.

Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#16

> Why work at Pabio? > You’ll work mostly with cool people (Not all of us are cool, but the majority are.) Seriously wondering who the uncool people would be and what it would be like to work with them

I'm the uncool one

Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#17

> Why work at Pabio? > You’ll work mostly with cool people (Not all of us are cool, but the majority are.) Seriously wondering who the uncool people would be and what it would be like to work with them

I'm the uncool one

Agree with that statement.

Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#18

I like this very much. I would use you guys at the $600/mo price point for two rooms in a home in Austin, TX that I will be inhabiting for four months. The lead time is the problem (along with the pricing in CHF). I want this today and not 10 weeks from now (more than half of the period of the rental). Cool idea. I am concretely interested but not at that lead time. If anyone has American recommendations I’d be thril…

livefeather.com is amazing and available in the US. They don't offer the interior design service part, though.

Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#19

I like this very much. I would use you guys at the $600/mo price point for two rooms in a home in Austin, TX that I will be inhabiting for four months. The lead time is the problem (along with the pricing in CHF). I want this today and not 10 weeks from now (more than half of the period of the rental). Cool idea. I am concretely interested but not at that lead time. If anyone has American recommendations I’d be thril…

Lol, I would also like to use this service in Austin for 4-6 month period starting in September :)

Re: Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service

#20

I like this very much. I would use you guys at the $600/mo price point for two rooms in a home in Austin, TX that I will be inhabiting for four months. The lead time is the problem (along with the pricing in CHF). I want this today and not 10 weeks from now (more than half of the period of the rental). Cool idea. I am concretely interested but not at that lead time. If anyone has American recommendations I’d be thril…

livefeather.com is amazing and available in the US. They don't offer the interior design service part, though.

Thanks. Livefeather is interesting
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