Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

#1

Post by camjw » Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 1:38 PM UTC

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.

Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery
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Re: Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

#2

Post by exolymph » Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 8:01 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

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Post by ranie93 » Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 8:09 PM UTC

exolymph wrote: post #2

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 et…

Agree. FWIw you can quickly put any email/pw to make an account and it lets you through (i.e. no email verification)

Re: Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

#4

Post by ojkewin » Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 8:12 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 8:18 PM UTC

exolymph wrote: post #2

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 et…

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Re: Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

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Post by hagbard_c » Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 8:23 PM UTC

ojkewin wrote: post #4

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.

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.

Re: Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

#7

Post by monster_truck » Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 9:29 PM UTC

Takes too long to load

Re: Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

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Post by camjw » Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 9:58 PM UTC

monster_truck wrote: post #7

Takes too long to load

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?

Re: Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

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Post by camjw » Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 10:00 PM UTC

exolymph wrote: post #2

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 et…

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.

Re: Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery

#10

Post by camjw » Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 10:01 PM UTC

ranie93 wrote: post #3

exolymph wrote: post #2

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 et…

Agree. FWIw you can quickly put any email/pw to make an account and it lets you through (i.e. no email verification)

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.