Eric Willis

Sticker Mule Wall Graphics - Custom wall graphics for your home or office

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Anthony Thomas
Hey! Happy to be on Product Hunt today and excited to launch our take on custom wall graphics. When we first started playing with the idea of selling wall graphics we figured they were just big stickers, but as we dug deeper we realized there are a number of unique UX challenges with this product for us to solve. We'd love to hear feedback from Product Hunters on how we can make this more awesome! If you order this week, email help@stickermule.com referencing this post and we'll manually reduce your price by $25. Got a sec? Post a comment with feedback or question below. Our team will be thrilled to hear from you.
Eric Metelka
@stickermule @ac132 What are these unique UX challenges? Can you elaborate?
Anthony Thomas
@stickermule @eric3000 Certainly, one of the biggest challenges is managing artwork to ensure an optimal print quality. Since wall graphics are quite large, most artwork will become pixelated once you blow it up to the size of the wall graphic. The competition handles this 2 ways: 1. They heavily restrict the type of artwork they'll accept. 2. They blame the customer if the final print isn't optimal. Our goal is to make ordering fast and easy. Since most customers aren't experts in print-ready artwork we don't think it ideal to put the responsibility for artwork prep onto the customer. To that end, we're developing tools to automatically flag artwork that won't print well at size and also automatically fix the image so that it will print optimally. Ideally, you should be able to send us any image that represents your design and we'll do all the work to ensure optimal print quality without making you worry about it. The next big UX challenge is actually offline. The installation process for these can be rather cumbersome. Our focus is to save you time and make your life easier so we're pushing to optimize this process too. The final challenge is that we've seen customers don't necessarily know what size they should order. We've partly solved this challenge by working with you on size during proofing, but there's more we can do to help here as well.
Eric Metelka
@stickermule @ac132 That's awesome detail. I love you digging into this process that from the outside seems easy but is actually fraught with challenges. It's all discovering the consumer pain points and solving for them.
Ryan Hoover
So smart, @everette. I also saw a giant package from you at our office before I left last night. I haven't opened it yet. Stay tuned... πŸ˜„
Everette Taylor
@rrhoover 😈😈😈 hope you enjoy :)
Casey Armstrong
@everette Mine must have been lost in the mail. ;)
Ryan Hoover
And here it is! Thanks, @everette and team!
Lana
@rrhoover Does it stick on the concrete walls?
Violeta Nedkova
Nice hunt, @erictwillis! I love this. I especially like that they noticed I'm outside of the U.S. and offered to convert to centimeters. :D
Everette Taylor
@v4violetta thanks Violeta, we try to be international friendly =)
Anthony Thomas
@erictwillis @v4violetta yup! more fun stuff for international customers coming soon (i.e. lower shipping rates for parts of Europe).
Dinesh Agarwal
@v4violetta @everette I learnt a new word today.
Kristoferβ„’
Love me some StickerMule. This looks like a cool product. If I visit a startup's office that doesn't have a giant logo on their wall like this, I'm leaving.
Anthony Thomas
@kristofertm Haha thanks Kris this made everyone here smile :-)
Everette Taylor
@kristofertm awesome comment :)
Everette Taylor
Awesome thanks for hunting @erictwillis! If anyone has any questions please let me know, the Sticker Mule CEO @ac132 will be on shortly to answer any questions as well!
Sam Houston
@ac132 @everette What is the color quality like on these prints? I've noticed our stickers via StickerMule often come out with very dull/flat colors. Are you using a different method to print these wall graphics so that bright colors come out bright/vibrant?
Anthony Thomas
@everette @samhouston Our custom stickers have a matte finish which is well received, but can be a matter of preference. Some vendors offer a matte vs. gloss option, but we like simplicity and think it'd be stressful to make every customer choose between matte or gloss when ordering. Glossier finishes are brighter which might be what you're looking for. Re: wall graphics, there are a number of options when ordering wall graphic material. The material we use has a fabric like textured that's optimized for making installation easier. This material has a different finish than regular stickers and is neither matte nor gloss. Re: color accuracy, we spend a tremendous amount of effort on color accuracy and even have staff in place specifically focused on this topic. We completed an extensive project to optimize color accuracy for wall graphics before going live. @everette waited patiently the past few weeks while we put the finishing touches on the process, but I'm confident we have better color accuracy across all of our product lines than any other vendor.
Sam Houston
@ac132 Great, thank you for the answer! Congrats on the new product launch.
Anthony Thomas
@samhouston My pleasure :-)
Ross Simmonds
Oh nice, this is awesome! My laptop is already covered with Stickermule products. Pretty soon my walls will follow suit. I'd love to see StickerMule give companies the ability to submit orders via an API. I'm working on a website that has unique artwork and I'd love to have the ability to have stickers or wall graphics easily ordered, printed and shipped.
Everette Taylor
@thecoolestcool we really appreciate your support Ross and thanks for the suggestion, definitely will talk this over with our dev team.
Anthony Thomas
@thecoolestcool Hey Ross, we've been getting more frequent requests for an API so it's definitely on our mind. No immediate plans but I wouldn't count it out as a future possibility. Thanks!
Jason Towns
Nice! May be a CODE2040 future purchase. We have one nice wall for it. If you're building something and trying to understand growth/ marketing, follow @Everette. The guy gets it on a level that most do not.
Anthony Thomas
@Everette @jhtdc hey jason! hit us up with your order # and we'll knock $25 off. Just email help@stickermule.com :) Thanks for the support!
Caleb Elston
The StickerMule team is awesome.
Everette Taylor
@calebelston thanks Caleb!
Eric Willis
The easiest way to add style to your home or office.
Anuj Adhiya
Timely - was just starting the hunt for wall graphics for a room. I know it says "custom wall graphics" but you could argue that customization is not just about the artwork but about size, color, shape etc. To that end, I'd have liked some pre-created options to pick from on this page as well. I suspect that may increase conversions vs just having to upload your own artwork/file. Hope that makes sense.
Anthony Thomas
@anujadhiya Thanks Anuj!! Agree completely!
Frank Denbow
Great product from the StickerMule team. They have the highest quality stickers in the game and I recommend them exclusively to all my customers. Great work @ac132 & team!
Everette Taylor
@ac132 @frankdenbow thanks, always great to hear. Definitely means a lot.
Anthony Thomas
@frankdenbow thanks frank!
Everette Taylor
Humbled by this comment @CODE2040 - appreciate the support man and hope to see that office wall decorated soon!
Armen
This will be great for my home gym, great way to cover lots of wall space
Everette Taylor
@ubik911 make sure you take a picture for us when you decorate it. Thanks for the support :)
Everette Taylor
Great feedback @anujadhiya! Definitely something to discuss, we're just getting started so the possibilities are endless
Greg Goodson
Love this. Looking forward to trying this out. We've been huge StickerMule fans the past 3 years - love to see the progress!
Everette Taylor
@greggoodson thanks G, the positive feedback is appreciated
Tad Milbourn
Very cool. I'm a big fan of wall decals. We've used them for our daughter's nursery and now toddler room. It's easier than painting, more fun, and can be quickly changed as tastes change (whether you're a startup or a toddler). Now allow them to be customized? That's the icing on the cake.
Eric Posen
The example on the landing page looks a lot longer than 5ft, yet the max-size is 5ft. When will you support larger stickers?
Ryan Connolly
@goeric Saw that as multiple stickers. Look forward to future hunt for "Farrier: Uber for large Sticker Mule installations".
Anthony Thomas
@goeric No ETA, but once we get comfortable with our process we'll expand to additional sizes. Our biggest concern with large sizes is having a sensible solution for packaging and installation.
Anthony Thomas
thanks greg!
Sean Miller
This is great, I was just talking about getting something for our boardroom today and this is ideal. International shipping to - winning!
Jack Shalom
Added to Best of 2015 collection!