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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

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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 :)

Is there a reason you’d rather do this than live in a fully furnished rental?

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

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I think the idea is great.. but it would only be attractive to most users if the furniture was rent-to-own.

It (optionally) is! Here's an excerpt from a previous comment: > All your monthly payments go towards ownership. Say you have a contract for $400 per month for 2 years, and your furniture costs $12,000. At the end of this period, you can either (i) pay the difference, i.e., $2,400, and you own the furniture; (ii) continue the subscription until you've paid the amount back; or (iii) you can sign a new contract and get…

Oh thank you! That makes it more interesting. As I'm in Switzerland, I would try this service out if I wasn't a broke college student.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It (optionally) is! Here's an excerpt from a previous comment: > All your monthly payments go towards ownership. Say you have a contract for $400 per month for 2 years, and your furniture costs $12,000. At the end of this period, you can either (i) pay the difference, i.e., $2,400, and you own the furniture; (ii) continue the subscription until you've paid the amount back; or (iii) you can sign a new contract and get…

Oh thank you! That makes it more interesting. As I'm in Switzerland, I would try this service out if I wasn't a broke college student.

Thanks! Just curious: At what price point would you consider this? Say you have a student room (like a studio), how much would you like to pay to furnish it to your taste? I'm asking because we want to make this as affordable as possible!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by "OP content" and "readable"?

Not the original commentor, but I guess what they were talking about was the low contrast of the description text of text posts on HN with the background.

@pblithier8, maybe this could be a feature for your much-loved Refined HN browser extension!

PS: Mihir is also our first engineering intern at Pabio! :D

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

#100

Are you planning on expanding to houses? I’d love to send someone details on my house, a budget, and have them design the interior and buy all the furniture for me.

Yes, we do serve houses too, but we don't currently offer straight-up buying options. You can get a Pabio subscription for your house and buyout the furniture at the end of your subscription. We're not considering the buying upfront part because we really believe that the subscription models makes our offering much more affordable (think $20k of furniture upfront vs. $400 of monthly payments which all go towards owne…

> We're not considering the buying upfront part because we really believe that the subscription models makes our offering much more affordable (think $20k of furniture upfront vs. $400 of monthly payments which all go towards ownership).

How is this different (functionally, or financially) from financing that is pretty standard fare at most furniture shops?

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