Get feedback on your craft project from a photo
The hardest part of learning a craft alone is not knowing whether what is in front of you is right. Hobbing's check-ins let you photograph your work part way through and hear what is working, what to adjust, and where to look back, before the next step makes a mistake permanent.
Why a general chatbot is not enough here
You can send a photo to any assistant and ask "does this look right?". The answer is only as good as what it is comparing against, and a general assistant does not know which project you are making, which step you are on, or what that step should look like when it is done.
A Hobbing check-in knows all three. Daisy, the tutor inside the app, compares your photo with the step's goal and with the picture of what that stage should look like, so the feedback is about your piece rather than about the craft in general.
How a check-in works
- A roadmap pauses for a check-in where the work can be seen and is hard to fix once the next step starts: before gluing, joining, sealing or firing.
- Take a photo of what you have made so far. Daisy marks the spots she is talking about on your photo, says what is working, names what to adjust, and points back to the step to revisit when something went wrong earlier.
- Try the fix and check again. The second review is told what the first one said, so it tells you whether the tweak worked instead of starting over.
- Milestone photos go into your journal under "Your work", so you can see your own progress over time.
Help at the moment you are stuck
Every page of a step's walk-through has "Stuck here?", which opens Daisy on exactly that part of the step. She already knows the step, its supplies and which of them you said you have, so "my glue is different" gets an answer you can act on tonight. When the step has a photo of that part, she can show it to you instead of describing it.
Copy a design without drawing it freehand
When a step asks you to copy a motif, lettering or a shape to cut, tap "Trace it". On a phone or tablet the camera shows your paper with the design laid over it, so you draw on the paper what you see on the screen. On a computer the design shows bright on a white screen for paper laid over it, or you can print it sized for your paper.
What it cannot do
Daisy reviews photos, she does not watch you work. For a skill your hands have to be corrected on while they move, like centering clay on a pottery wheel or pulling up its walls, an in-person teacher still wins. Hobbing is strongest for crafts where the work can be seen and judged in a photo: scrapbooking, journaling, watercolor, crochet and hand-built ceramics.
Check-ins are part of every roadmap with one. Start free at https://app.hobbing.ai.
The first 100 people to subscribe, on the web or in the apps, are founding members and pay half price, 50% off, for their whole first year: $9.99 a month, or $59.99 for the first year, then the regular price.