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Comment by doctoboggan | Hacker News Reader

Hi everyone! I built Lulim Jewelry after spending some time figuring out how to design and 3D print my own wedding band.

My day job was in the 3D printing industry and I knew how far the technology had come so I busted out the CAD tools and designed a ring with my wife's fingerprint on it. I thought the processes could be much easier and thus Lulim was born.

The website is built with Vue.js, Canvas.js, and Three.js. Unfortunately those last two can be somewhat resource intensive so I'd love to get feedback from others regarding performance on different devices, OSes, and browsers. I decided to do as much work in the client side as possible so that this website is cheap to keep running. I wanted my costs to scale with sales and to minimize any recurring monthly fees. This is my first real Vue app so I am sure there are things that could be better!

Feedback on the company idea, site layout, tech stack or anything else is appreciated!

If anyone is interested in buying a ring shoot me an email (jack @ <companydomain.com>) and I can give you a decent discount.

This is a super neat idea. I have made wedding bands for friends over the years, I usually provided a stainless steel band the right size to wear for a week or two and found that often we would tune the sizes by 1/4-1/2 size or thickness. For expensive bands, it might be neat to offer a trial size for a reasonable fee since wedding rings can have a long life.

When ordering on my site I have an option for "I dont know my size", in which case I send the customer a ring sizing kit. I've heard others say it's important to wear the ring for some time so thats something I should take into account.

One thing I've considered is adding an option to order a brass version of the ring first so the customer can see how the design will come out and test the fit for a few days.

This is such a great idea and the pieces look fantastic. The price point seems right too, and I'm sure you'll get plenty of customers. Hopefully sometime in the future you can expand to bracelets or pendants, I think this market is overdue for something new.

I browsed through the site on my s9, and scrolling seemed to hang pretty badly, I'm guessing theres a bit too much going on client side.

Thanks for the kind words! I definitely plan on expanding to other pieces of jewelry. It would be pretty easy to use the same techniques I've developed so far to generate pendants or other customized jewelry pieces.

Thanks for the feedback regarding scrolling. I know there is work I can do to make it better (I suspect three.js/webgl is the main culprit). Mobile is even harder, although I have tried to make sure the site is at least browsable on my iPhone.

Why is the custom design only on the inside? I think I'd be much more interested if it were on the outside.

I personally liked the idea of a simple classic ring on the outside with the personalization only on the inside, but I acknowledge that is just my preference.

I do plan on adding outside customization soon but I wanted to launch ASAP.

If you are interested I can pretty easily make a ring with the design on the outside for you.

You are smart to launch with an MVP that does the one thing so well. Mad props.

Thanks! This still took me longer than I had initially thought to get out.

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