Snap — Interactive 3D Patch Studio

The problem Customizing clothes online creates a gap between what the customer imagines and what ends up on the sewing table. People want creative freedom; production needs exact instructions. The result is endless back-and-forth and “where do I put this patch?” messages.

The build I’m a designer, so everything started in Figma — every screen, hover and sticker. Then I rebuilt it in Base44, one prompt at a time: layout first, then motion, then the 3D studio.

In the studio, you drop patches anywhere on a real 3D shirt, then rotate, resize, duplicate or undo. On mobile, it’s built for one thumb: separate modes for viewing, placing and editing, and quick zones like Chest or Sleeve. Small details carry the brand: hover a patch in the catalog to see it sewn on a shirt, or hover the headline letters to watch them turn into 3D type.

Three things fought back:

Patches on a real 3D shirt — solved with surface decals that follow the fabric.

Saving exactly what people design — solved with automatic front/back snapshots.

One-thumb mobile editing — solved by splitting the studio into clear modes instead of shrinking the desktop layout.

Automation

Snapshot → production (saves time, removes errors). The moment you add to bag, snap captures your design front and back. The snapshots go to production with the order, and the admin can download a ready-to-print production sheet as a PDF. What you see is exactly what we sew.

Status emails (customer experience). Change an order’s status in the admin, and the customer is notified automatically: in production, shipped with tracking, delivered.

Owner alerts (operations). New orders and contact messages land in my inbox right away, with a link to the order.

Waitlist (leads). Unreleased items like the hoodie collect sign-ups instead of being a dead end. The moment I switch it live, everyone waiting gets an email.

Vibe code. Vibe design. Real thread. Life project: https://figma-snap-416e61aa.base44.app Figma file (for personal use) Full screencasts are in the comments: the customer flow (from the catalog to checkout, on desktop and mobile) and the admin flow (the order with its snapshots → the production PDF → a status change → the automatic email).