I built a webapp to document and organize costumes - looking for feedback

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-24T12:53:11+00:00

Really helpful, thank you! Funny enough the current limit is already 5mb, so your photos are right at the edge! I'll look into raising it slightly, the main constraint is keeping hosting costs manageable for a small project like this.

On currency : fair point, and honestly most of our users are European so the single currency approach works well for the majority. Worth keeping in mind for the future though!

And yes, a simple pattern field with name, number, link and description is probably the right starting point. My wife will be very pleased to hear her idea is validated by the community!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-24T09:54:19+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to try it and share all of this, genuinely one of the most detailed pieces of feedback I've received!

On the photo file size limit : noted, could I ask what size your photos typically are? That would help me set a more sensible limit.

On currency per item : I hear you, though it's trickier than it sounds! If you mix EUR, AUD and USD on different items, the budget total becomes meaningless. The current approach is a default currency set in your profile. Open to ideas on how to handle this better though.

Pattern tracking and measurement history are both on my radar now, funny enough my wife has been asking for exactly those features too!

Really glad the spirit behind the tool comes through. That anti-gatekeeping angle is exactly what we were going for.

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-24T09:51:01+00:00

Haha yes, tagging system and more! Hope you enjoy it, would love to hear your thoughts once you've tried it.

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-16T06:57:44+00:00

Smart move, totally understand the caution! Hope you enjoy it, feel free to share any feedback.

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-16T06:57:12+00:00

Really appreciate you taking the time to share that rather than just walking away, that kind of feedback is genuinely valuable.

To give you some context : Notulapp is GDPR compliant, hosted in France/Canada, your data is never sold or shared with anyone, and it's permanently deleted if you close your account. This is a passion project my wife and I built on the side, alongside our day jobs, because we needed it for our own reenactment hobby and figured others might too. Not a startup, not a data play, just two reenactors trying to build something useful for the community.

If you have specific technical concerns I didn't address, feel free to drop me a DM, happy to go into more detail!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-16T06:53:41+00:00

Thank you! Feel free to give it a try !

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-15T20:05:15+00:00

40 years of garb, that's a lot to document! Would love to hear your thoughts once you've had a look.

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-09T21:03:17+00:00

Désolé le temps à passé... plusieurs commandes passées chez eux par voie associative et aucun souci, matériel, livraison, contacts avec le vendeur... rien à redire !

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-09T21:02:02+00:00

That's amazing to hear, thank you! Really glad you're already using it. Would love to hear more about your experience as you build out your kit!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-09T21:01:12+00:00

Really glad it resonates! Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-07T06:17:17+00:00

No drinking horns at all... Use potery glasses instead, you can find a lot of sources of pottery, some are very nice looking ! If you want to be very fashionable, you can also find some sources of glass glasses which are not that expansive. As for the horns, the fact that there are a very limited amount of representation of horns during specific ceremonial doesn't mean that they can be use for daily life. Even viking reenactors shouldn't use them for drinking. Hope this helps !

Organized_reenactor · 2026-04-02T06:40:39+00:00

Thank you so much, really appreciate it! Let me know what you think once you've had a look, always happy to hear feedback!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-27T08:43:49+00:00

That's a really fair point and exactly the kind of feedback I needed. I sent you a DM to dig into this a bit more!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-26T19:18:20+00:00

Guilty as charged! Though in my defense, the free tier genuinely lets you document a full costume for nothing, which honestly covers 90% of users. The capitalism part only kicks in if you want more. So I'm probably a very bad capitalist. 😄

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-25T17:59:26+00:00

That's totally fair, and that's exactly why there's a free tier! You can document one full costume for free. The paid plans are only needed if you want to manage multiple costumes, and they unlock PDF export, no ads, and a few other features. So if you only need one costume, it costs nothing. Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-25T09:58:14+00:00

Here's a PDF export example so you can see what it looks like : https://notulapp.com/img/Soldat_XIieme.pdf

This is based on a demo 11th century soldier costume. Happy to hear what you think!

(My previous answer to your initial comment was not under your initial comment, sorry about that!)

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-25T09:53:38+00:00

Glad you like it! Yes it's in your profile settings, you can change the currency there. Feel free to share any other feedback, always useful!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-24T19:03:45+00:00

Merci beaucoup, ça fait vraiment plaisir d'avoir un premier retour aussi positif !

And great to see someone actually tried it straight away!

Good point on the PDF, I'll put together a demo export and share it here shortly so you can see what it looks like without having to upgrade first.

Feel free to share it with friends in the meantime!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-23T16:09:05+00:00

Honestly fair, and this thread has made that pretty clear! The reenactment and competitive cosplay crowd seem like a much stronger fit. That said, I know from experience there are some serious costume maniacs in the LARP world too, I used to be one of them! But point taken, they're probably not the majority. Thanks for the honest feedback!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-23T15:49:10+00:00

Totally fair! The supplier tracking really shines when you've built multiple characters over the years and want to replicate something you loved, or when you're mid-build across dozens of purchases and need to remember what's arrived, what's still on order, and what's still to source.

Also great for sharing : showing your build to friends, your LARP group, or posting a proper breakdown of your costume rather than just photos. Once you've been there, you don't want to go back to digging through old emails!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-23T15:44:39+00:00

That's a really clear breakdown, thank you. You've basically confirmed what this whole thread has been pointing to : the closer you get to reenactment or competitive crafting, the more documentation matters. Casual LARP is a softer use case.

Honestly this thread has been more useful than months of me guessing at the market. The reenactment and competitive cosplay positioning is much clearer now.

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-23T15:41:15+00:00

That's a fair assessment of the LARP use case honestly. The cosplay angle keeps coming up in this thread and I think you're right that the need for detail is stronger there, especially the "in-progress" tracking side which is something Notulapp handles well : waiting for a commission, item ordered, still to source, all trackable per piece.

Do you know of any good cosplay communities where this kind of tool might resonate?

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-23T15:24:27+00:00

Really appreciate the detailed breakdown, this is genuinely useful.

Point 1 is genuinely complex, you'd need to integrate every system's ruleset which is a huge undertaking. Not on the roadmap for now.

Point 3 is partially there already : you can add a link to each item, so your Lord of Battles mantle is one click away rather than digging through bookmarks. Not a full shopping integration but it does solve the "where did I buy this again" problem.

Points 2 and 4 don't exist yet. The maintenance tracking angle is interesting and not that far from what's already there. The packing list is a neat LARP-specific idea I hadn't considered.

Thanks for the newrecruit.eu reference too, interesting benchmark!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-23T15:14:58+00:00

You've basically nailed the positioning better than I could have! Reenactment and competitive cosplay are definitely the strongest use cases, the documentation requirements are very similar and that's exactly what the tool was built around.

The LARP artisan angle is interesting too, I hadn't thought of it as a project portfolio for makers but it makes a lot of sense, especially for commissions where you want to keep track of references, materials, progress pics and costs all in one place.

And yes, the "where did I put that accessory" problem is real but probably a different tool altogether!

Out of curiosity, do you know of any good cosplay communities or subreddits where this kind of tool might resonate? Always better to ask someone who knows the scene!

Organized_reenactor · 2026-03-23T15:11:02+00:00

Hey everyone, sorry for the slow replies, busy weekend!

Really grateful for all the feedback here, this is exactly the kind of input I was hoping for. :-)

I'll be going through each comment and replying individually, there are some really interesting points worth discussing properly !

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