u/DragonfruitGood3033

Like2Fit gives you a straight read on whether an outfit will actually work for you. Upload an image, share a fashion inspo from IG/TikTok to Like2Fit, drop a retailer URL, or just describe the outfit and get to see how it looks on you, fits into your wardrobe, if you should buy it, and where to find the item or similar within your budget.

I built it for two reasons:

1. I kept buying items I rarely wore.
2. Hunting down a specific piece by walking round a mall can eat hours.

So Like2Fit shows you items in your budget and how they'd look on your model. You get a link to an online store to buy it, plus shops around you where you can walk in and grab it today.

Looking for ~30 testers. It's early and a bit rough in places but that's the point. Brutally honest feedback very welcome.

I've noticed the low price makes me way less careful. On a normal site I'd think twice; on here it's "it's £5, why not" and suddenly there's a bag of pieces that looked great in someone's listing photo and just don't work on me. Secondhand so no easy return, so it doesn't go back, it just becomes a pile. How do you keep your buying disciplined on Vinted? Rules for yourself, or a way of judging a listing before you commit?

Petite problem I can't crack: a piece looks amazing online, I order it, and the proportions are just off, hem in the wrong place, oversized where it shouldn't be, sleeves swallowing my hands. Half of it I mean to alter and never do, so it just sits there. Some of you are genuinely good at eyeballing this from a product photo. What tells you "this'll work on a petite frame" vs "this only works because she's tall"? System, or just experience?

Petite problem I can't crack: a piece looks amazing online, I order it, and the proportions are just off, hem in the wrong place, oversized where it shouldn't be, sleeves swallowing my hands. Half of it I mean to alter and never do, so it just sits there. Some of you are genuinely good at eyeballing this from a product photo. What tells you "this'll work on a petite frame" vs "this only works because she's tall"? System, or just experience?

Six months ago I had a problem.

I kept seeing outfits I loved online on Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok saving them, screenshotting them, and then doing absolutely nothing with them because I had no idea where to actually buy any of it.

So I Googled "find outfit from photo" and tried everything that came up.

Every tool either:

→ Showed me items I couldn't afford

→ Linked to US stores that don't ship to the UK

→ Required me to already know what I was looking for

I work as a Product Manager in tech. I'm not a fashion person. I have no design background. I had never built a consumer product before.

I built it anyway.

Like2Fit lets you upload any outfit photo and find similar items at YOUR budget,from stores online or physically near you.

That last bit, finding items in actual stores near your location, turned out to be the hardest thing I have ever built.

More on that in a future post.

Six months later:

→ 30 users (yes, thirty)

→ 132 saved outfits

→ A wardrobe feature I didn't plan to build but users asked for

→ A daily outfit email

→ Roughly $600 spent on API costs

→ One very memorable fight with OpenAI's safety filters over mini skirts (Post 4, I promise)

The product works.Distribution is the part that's humbling me right now.

Hence this series.

I'm going to document everything publicly, the numbers, the mistakes, the weird technical problems, the user conversations that completely changed what I built.

No "I made £10k in month one" nonsense. Just honest numbers and honest lessons from someone figuring it out in real time.

If you want to follow along hit my profile. I post updates here.

Search like2fit on google if you're curious, free to try, no sign up needed.

QUESTION FOR THIS COMMUNITY:

What's the single thing nobody warned you about before you started building in public?

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