AI tool previews your photo as a diamond painting kit and tracks leftover DMC supplies
A new tool lets you upload a photo and see what it would look like as a custom diamond painting kit before ordering. It also lets you track leftover DMC thread colors from past kits. It's a niche side project aimed at the diamond painting hobby community.
Diamond painting is a craft hobby where you stick tiny sparkling beads onto a canvas to recreate an image. Normally you'd have to order a custom kit and wait for it to arrive to see the result — this tool uses AI to simulate the finished look from your photo first. The DMC tracking feature lets you log which colors you already have left over, so you can reuse supplies or plan future orders more efficiently. The diamond painting hobby has a passionate and repeat-buying community, which makes it a decent fit for a niche tool that could monetize through subscriptions, affiliate links to kit sellers, or upsells. That said, this is a Reddit side-project post, so actual traction and revenue are unverified at this stage.
Key points
- Upload any photo and AI shows you what it would look like as a diamond painting
- Track your leftover DMC color supplies to avoid waste and plan new projects
- Targets a specific hobby niche with loyal, repeat-buying customers
- Small niche tools serving tight communities can still find viable monetization paths
- Still at early/side-project stage — scale and revenue not yet proven
Quick term guide
- diamond painting
- A craft hobby where you place tiny colored resin beads onto a sticky canvas grid to form a picture, similar to paint-by-numbers.
- side project
- A small project someone builds outside their main job or main business.
- FIR
- A First Information Report — the official complaint filed with police in India that kicks off a criminal investigation.
- subscription
- A pricing model where you pay a fixed amount of money every month for access.
- script
- A small program that automates repeated steps.
- Link
- A fictional bond between two people’s minds, bodies, or powers.
- traction
- Proof that real people or companies are using or paying for a product.
- monetization
- The process of turning a free product or service into something that earns real money