I tried to create an MVP in a similar vein a while back, except instead of doing the whole 3D rendering route, I tested with Photoshoppers from ODesk with instructions to select products from a few well-known sellers of furniture/decor.

What caused me to give up at the time was in my initial tests with friends and family I found that the big problem is the cost of iterations quickly outpaces the price paid if the customer is not happy with what is presented. Often people have no idea what they want--they just can say "yeah, this looks nice, but I'll know it when I see it."

Even if they have a large library of pre-rendered products, there is still the cost of the time for the designer to pick things that work and place them. In theory you might be able to get this down low enough with machine learning to suggest products based on other happy customers with similar preferences and I'm curious if that is the direction you're leaning in to have fully automated recommendations.

There are other competing services out there that provide much less cool "mood board" style selections, and that is their attempt to get the price low by not wasting any time with trying to show it in context with the room. They also seem to charge ~$300.

Would love to know how you guys are addressing the issue of iterations as I didn't see that mentioned anywhere. Do you have a "happy customer guarantee?" If I pay $30-$40 and receive designs I'm really unhappy with, how do you guys handle that?

Congrats on what looks like an awesome product with some serious technology behind it. If this works as presented it will blow the competition out of the water, and if you can come up with a way to reduce the cost sufficiently, I think a lot of people would be very interested in getting great design suggestions they can easily visualize for a very low price.

Signed-up for the beta and will be filling out the style quiz with my wife tonight. I would LOVE to be bumped up in the list to help beta this as we are both super stressed about how to fill several rooms in our home and fill an empty wall in our living room. There's only so many crappy Pinterest publisher-spam links I can click on or insanely overpriced purchasable products on Houzz I can pass over before I want to throw my iPad against the wall.

Congrats!