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Hi guys, I'm the cofounder/ceo of DITTO. Glad you guys like it! Put it on here to get to get some feedback so please let me know if you have any other comments/suggestions. FYI: We tested everything from dollars to cards for the scale and cards tested much higher and people usually have them handy. Also we did test not forcing an account but the emails we get are valuable enough to lose some people. Thanks again for the helpful feedback!

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This is very cool! I just bought new glasses about a week ago, so i'm a bit late. But the next time i'm in the market i'll remember you guys.

One thing i'd like to see different. Right now the glasses shopping experience seems to be the top level, and the virtual try on is a feature almost. I'd love to spend my entire time at the virtual try on. It would be great if i could go from pair to pair really quickly. Maybe that means pre-rendering pairs (if possible) before I ask for them.

Any idea why I'm not being asked to take a picture with the card?

I created a "ditto" 3 times, and it always does the first 2 steps (place face in circle, then turn head left/right).

After that it just creates the ditto, and it seems the glasses are always too big or too small. Am I missing something?

Ahh, we are AB testing whether to do the Add Scale step in the flow or on the product page. You can find it if you scroll down a product page. The results are in and it's better to do it in the initial flow so in a week or two, that will be back in the original flow for all.

Is this the same technology used in the glasses.com iPad app? I remember using something exactly like this a couple years ago.

It's a different technology and has a different capture method. Glasses.com requires using a mobile device and an external mirror.

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