Simple Steps to build DIY paper models

About the Project

Inspiration

The inspiration behind Artly began with a simple idea: bringing the joy of creating custom paper models to everyone. For fun, I posted on social media about making a paper model of Pawan Kalyan, a popular Indian movie hero. Unsure if people would be interested, I asked for a small pre-order fee of 50 rupees. To my amazement, five complete strangers placed orders! The excitement grew as more DMs poured in, requesting models of other heroes, anime characters, and even personalized models. This overwhelming response sparked the creation of Artly, where we aim to offer everything related to DIY paper models, from customized designs to kids' puzzles and office desk decor.

What It Does

Artly offers a free DIY paper model generator website, accessible to everyone. Customers simply upload their image and receive step-by-step instructions to create a paper model of themselves or anyone they choose.

How We Built It

We built Artly using Next.js, Convex, and OpenAI. These tools help us efficiently detect facial features and predict the best matching shapes for eyes, heads, eyebrows, and more. Convex and the Monorepo template has been really crucial for such a blazing fast development time , we are using Convex mutations to take user transactions , user feedback and user customer support, we also use Convex actions to call OpenAi function , we use Convex files to store the images rendered

Challenges We Faced

Achieving consistent results from OpenAI
Dynamically altering SVGs to match different apparel colors

Accomplishments

We're proud to have seven paying customers! 🤩

What's Next for Artly

Our vision for Artly is to scale up and serve a wider audience. We aim to offer products for kids, desk decor, gifting, and more, continually refining and improving our offerings.

Social Presence

Our primary target audience is on Instagram. Over the past month, we've actively posted reels, memes, and other content to grow our user base organically. Here are some milestones we've achieved:

Total Views: 11,000+
Followers: 50+
Accounts Reached: 500+ We've also launched a Twitter channel to attract more users, with regular posts and advertisements:
Highest Post Views: 260+
Followers: 17+

On LinkedIn, we've focused on attracting corporate clients and employees, with several posts gaining significant traction:

Impressions per Post: 1200+
DMs for Orders: 3+

Our LinkedIn campaign has been particularly successful in generating interest and orders.

Linkedin campaign

Link	Views	Likes
Even Morpheus tells you to embrace fun and...	1816	28
Today I tried out Meta's animating amateur...	1483	43
LinkedIn Activity 7240338869546598400	1274	135
LinkedIn Activity 7240955199719161856	220	5
LinkedIn Activity 7240977616407519232	129	10
LinkedIn Activity 7240992760030240768	265	4