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Show HN: I built StickerFacet to turn photos into high quality vinyl stickers

by arthurcolle on 5/24/25, 11:13 PM with 14 comments

• by wlesieutre on 5/25/25, 1:25 AM

  I'm not following what the "sticker collection" occupying the prime page real estate at top left is supposed to be. They have names like watercolor, realistic, cartoon, pixel art, neon, and graffiti, but all of them just look like photos. When I click on them there are two buttons with download/upload icons, but neither one is doing anything when I click it.

  The "Featured Pet Transformations" below that are good illustrations of the concept, except the "Happy Shiba" example starts from a not-shiba (long floppy ears) and through the magic of GPT-Image-1 becomes an entirely different dog (pointy triangular ears). That makes it look more like an image generator than a restyling of your actual pet.

  I wonder if there's anything you can do with the image transformation to make it keep distinctive features of the source material? "Tuxedo Cat" for another example, it makes up a different white and black cat from the one that was provided. The white patch in the original goes up around one eye while the sticker has a pointy triangle up the middle, and its legs were both white but in the sticker they're black with white paws.

  EDIT - giving it another look, the "Banana Buddy" example for Cute Style is also turning a bulldog into a terrier

• by apsurd on 5/25/25, 2:04 AM

  Maybe just me but the resultant generations look like generic animals. I want _my_ special snowflake little snicker doodle.

  I'm a pet lover, just fostered 3 kittens. My brother makes apple messenger stickers of them and puts them all over our group chat. It's great, i love it, they are very very much "hey that's Tilly, look how cute!". vs "it's a cat"

• by urbanisierung on 5/25/25, 4:56 AM

  I like the idea, but it looks like orders are public? --> [link-redacted]

• by nssnsjsjsjs on 5/25/25, 2:11 AM

  Needs tuning because the examples don't look like the original pets.

• by pan69 on 5/25/25, 4:49 AM

  Like the idea but is any of this actually working? Created an account, uploaded a photo of my dog. This bring me to a page which "Sticker Collection" which is showing me a bunch of cartoon cats, which based on their title are supposed to be different styles but all look the same to me. It's not even showing the original photo I uploaded. It has an "Add to cart" button when I select one of the "styles".

  No idea what I am supposed to do with this.

• by schobi on 5/25/25, 7:01 AM

  The pricing link in the menu does not work. I could not find what sizes and material for the physical stickers you used. "high quality" hmm