Stilya devlog #03 — virtual try-on, four ways.

This week we tested four different virtual try-on pipelines for Stilya.

The candidates

1. Fal.ai — fastest, most consistent, best lighting.
2. Gemini — great prompt understanding, but body proportions wandered.
3. Open-source diffusion — cheapest, but the warp on the fabric was uncanny.
4. Hybrid — combine pose detection from one with diffusion from another.

The winner

Fal.ai for v1. We will revisit the hybrid approach once we have user data on which item categories under-perform.

Lesson

A try-on tool ships when the lighting looks right. Everything else is secondary.