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Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments
- ctvo 2y agoAm I missing an option to swap from meters to feet for measurements? Seems low hanging.
- streakolay 2y agoit's possible to change the measurements in the account settings, but yeah, I will make it more clear in the future.
- ctvo 2y agoI think you have some major bugs then. The account settings page is empty. I logged in via Google's OAuth provider. There's no option to change anything. I also can't make a company profile, but to save or upload a floor plan, your front-end code is expecting that to exist. Edit: > const {companyName: Z, logo: Q, measurements: K} = b.sessionDataSchema.userData.companyProfiles[0] In your minified code. There is no `companyProfiles` for my logged in user.
- streakolay 2y agoYeah, I will fix it now, thank you to mention!
- streakolay 2y agoShould work as expected now.
- runnr_az 2y agoLove the name.
- billconan 2y agoawesome! did you do it fulltime?
- streakolay 2y agoNo, I was working on it as a side project and I did hire a web dev and UI designer for a short time.
- streakolay 2y agoHi friends, I'm Nick. This is Roometron, my first project that I managed to launch by myself while being a web developer and having a full-time job. I started working on it in 2019, so it took almost 5 years to deliver a beta version now. It was both a fun and challenging journey. I didn't expect things to go so slowly, but anyway, I'm happy to announce it's finally launched. What is Roometron? Roometron is a tool that converts floor plans into 3D apartments. It is VR-ready, highly performant, fast, efficient, and affordable due to its incredible automation. Feel free to ask any questions. Cheers.
- yieldcrv 2y agoHave you consulted a language model on other possible product names? Wasn’t very possible in 2019 but has been my goto since 2022
- streakolay 2y agoNo, I didn't. I've been stick with the name before AI massively spread around
- blensor 2y agoVR ready? Well that's interesting, I have to check it out. You probably should mention that on the front page somewhere
- streakolay 2y agoIt's not mentioned because I didn't add a WebXR support to the viewer yet, but the concept allows to do it shortly enough.
- rtb 2y agoSo what do you mean by "It is VR-ready"? You plan to add VR in the future?
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- nchudleigh 2y agoLooks really great.
- streakolay 2y agoThanks:)
- andrewstuart 2y agoSome feedback. I’m not your target market but……. I’m a big advocate of not having pages the tell you what it is, rather take the user straight into it. If that is not practical then your website should: 1: state what it is 2: show demos of it You want people to experience and use the thing, not read about it and close the page.
- streakolay 2y agoThanks. It has a demo 3d scene in the showcase section btw. ("Try it out" btn)
- sfmz 2y ago"Try it out" button needs to be centered and larger
- dole 2y agoAlmost as large as the early access button or more eye catching, I would've skipped the Try It Out button had I not read someone else's comment. Fantastic site design, amazing demo app and clean 3D for a solo project, much luck.
- streakolay 2y agoThanks a lot! I will definitely fix the "Try" buttons:)
- qingcharles 2y agoHuh. I only found out "Try it out" is a button by coming here and reading this.
- hanniabu 2y agoI'm on mobile and I see no try it out button
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- vegancap 2y agoAbsolutely blows my mind one person wrote this in their free time
- streakolay 2y agoMine too:D
- arjonagelhout 2y agoThe video tour seems to be AI generated as well. What is the reasoning behind using that over a path traced / light-baking approach? Also, how does it compare to other floor planner apps and relatively more advanced products like SketchUp?
- arjonagelhout 2y agoAnd props for launching! Going from 80% launch-able to 100% is not an easy task, especially when balancing other work. There’s so many small things that add up, even things like privacy policies or ToS’es.
- streakolay 2y agoThe videos might be both as realtime and path traced or AI enhanced, this feature is in development anyway so I chose a fast solution. It's not a floor planner, it offers to transform a floor plan to 3D, so users don't have to draw anything:)
- arjonagelhout 2y agoSo would the user be able to specify what furniture to be placed in the different rooms in the floor plan? And how do you source the 3d models? e.g. if I want to have specific IKEA furniture? I’m wondering because I once spent some time writing a 3d design app that could be used for room planning, and the main challenge was striking the balance between user control (e.g. the user wants the couch to be changed or moved) and automation. Because the user doesn’t want to fiddle too much with the 3d software, as it is the entire premise of building such an app that it alleviates the need for 3d skills, but there is still the need for expressiveness and making changes.
- Vinnl 2y agoNot something I need, but after following the "Try it now" button - that is really smooth. Nice work!
- streakolay 2y agoThank you!
- ynniv 2y agoThe landing page is refreshingly well done. It looks good, loads fast, feels smooth and stable. I also like the price point. It sounds like a lot for a saas, but doing it yourself takes too much time, and hiring someone is an order of magnitude more.
- streakolay 2y agoI was trying to make the Landing short and informative. Thanks for the feedback!
- greatNespresso 2y agoCongrats on shipping, love your the vibe of your website. Will share with our architect
- streakolay 2y ago<3
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- Grazester 2y agoNice, but can we have some technical information about it. What is your stack etc?
- arjonagelhout 2y agoFrom their Twitter I can see it uses Three.js
- streakolay 2y agoYes, it's Three.js. I guess I will have to make a showcase post on their forum with some of the technical details.
- mangoman 2y agoThis is pretty neat! I’m on mobile right now, but you mentioned that it’s VR ready - does the landing page work with WebXR? I’d love to try it out on my meta quest 3
- cyberbolt23 2y agoThere is https://floorplanner.com https://floorplanner.com They are used in a variety of situations and have been doing this for over 15 years. Floorplanner is used in high end shops to show arrangements of furniture, on website to showcase apartments etc. that are for sale and a lot of different use cases. What is the use case of Roometron that you see it does best?
- streakolay 2y agoI have not seen any of nice looking 3D apartment viewer yet, most of the companies offer users to draw apartments yourself and furnish it, thats mostly not considered as a user friendly experience and then they ask to render your work into an image, there are no real 3D to play with.
- buccal 2y agoI believe this would also fit the bill: https://planner5d.com/ https://planner5d.com/
- rtb 2y agofloorplanner.com does not appear to support VR (as far as I can make out)
- risyachka 2y agoIt doesn't need a new use case to be useful. It needs to be nicer/easier/faster. Which it does. Thats enough not to use floorplanner.
- siamese_puff 2y agoIncredible work. So I’ve used something similar to tour apartments virtually from a 3D camera. One thing I’m noticing when walking through the space is it feels like the perspective is really distorted compared to the actual 3D 360 photos in current apartment tours. The Birds Eye view is neat though. Curious, have you gained traction with apartment management companies to adopt this?
- rtb 2y agoI visited the website in my Quest 3 VR headset's browser and clicked "try it out", but was disappointed to not get it in VR. Did I miss a button or a link to get a VR demo? Very exciting space; I think this has great potential!
- streakolay 2y agoSorry, WebXR support is not added yet to the viewer. I will do it near time.
- paulcole 2y ago“Time spent” isn’t the best thing to call out first when talking about a project. Yes, it matters a lot to you but is it the most important thing for anyone else to know? I’d much rather know what you built + key reason it exists. I get that the 5 years thing is “just” marketing and a way to farm engagement — which is totally fine. This is just an alternative perspective on how to do that.
- nilirl 2y agoWow, that interactive demo was beautiful! Incredible job!
- andybak 2y agoSeems to be a bug - you can't save if you haven't entered a company profile (Firefox, Windows) (that's a guess. the error is Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: b.sessionDataSchema.userData.companyProfiles is undefined )
- streakolay 2y agoI believe it's fixed now. Thank you to pointing on it.
- kaltsturm 2y agoCan you give us some insights about what your infrastructure and tech stack are? Great work.
- streakolay 2y agoSure, I will provide it here soon.
- dualogy 2y agoDamn neat, congrats! Some minor feedbacks to get potential users hooked perhaps even more likelier: Took me a while to hit the "Walk" feature, given that this is perhaps for many the major showcase highlight here. First, having to scroll down on home page to "Try it out", then it defaults to "Fly" mode and the Fly/Walk toggle is kinda down&right, would suggest top&left (unless RTL default in user agent =). And when this default Fly mode first opens up, the apartment box is pretty small (1/5 of horizontal space here), might consider defaulting to the biggest zoom level that will still show it completely in all rotations (that's what the user'll do next). Nice that the glassy surfaces reflect in Walk mode! Was surprised about lack of specular-highlighting, isn't that fairly cheap compared to reflections? Or maybe planned. Not a dealbreaker on the user side tho I'd guess. But given all the gfx goodies from reflections to ambient occlusion in there, I was a bit curious. Another thing is that sometimes the canvas goes white with Chromium (Version 126.0.6478.182 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium) Arch Linux (64-bit)). But the slightest redraw provocation (click-that-actually-moves, or drag-that-rotates) resolves that. (But if you know under what conditions your canvas would fill white, you can look around for what might mistakenly cause such conditions..)
- streakolay 2y agoHey, thank you for the feedback. The UI on the Landing page are slightly different from the original one(when you open the viewer in a new tab) it was done that way to fit the LP content. The Chrome based bug came with the recent Chrome updates and I didn't have time to fix it and migrate all the HTML elements to the Canvas, but I will have to do it I guess
- dualogy 2y agoMight be some float-precision thresholding buggery, good luck =)
- Nathanba 2y agoI also think that the walk feature should have wasd and arrow movement. Maybe it should transition more slowly if you use those keys but when I read "walk" then my expectation in a 3d environment is that I can navigate more freely with keys.
- apexalpha 2y agoOeh I could use some of this for Home Assistant, get all my devices actually represented in a 3d model so I can just tap a lamp in stead of a button. I imagine it also works for houses since those are just 2 or 3 appartments stacked on top of each other, if you think about it.
- streakolay 2y agoYes, I did think to render the whole site with multiple buildings and even started to work on it, but decided to finish it later and launch the current version faster.
- WayToDoor 2y agoDo you mean that it works with ha-floorplan? If so, can you please explain to me how I'd proceed to make that work because it'd be awesome. I always wanted to do something like this but the time it takes to get the proper render and plan is just too big of an investment for me.
- fusslo 2y agoawesome work. The demo is incredibly smooth and I love the disappearing walls As a renter, I would love to be able to measure distances in the 3d render. 'Will my couch fit here?'; 'How High are the ceilings?'; 'can I fit my bike above the tv?'; 'how far down the hall is my roommate?'; 'can I fit my desk and dresser next to each other?' Every apartment I've rented started with me taking a Laser Distance Measure with me and making my own floor plan with height measurement as well. I see the room square footage, but that's honestly less useful to me than the dimensions (again from a renter's perspective)
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y agoI second that and I love the pricing scheme, pay per usage allows common people to use it
- hansoolo 2y agoBut if you have a floor plan, shouldn't it already be measured? You could drop your couch on the plan and see if it fits.
- Puppies4Life 2y agoNo constructive feedback, just wanted to say this is really well done. Congrats on the project, I'd be incredibly proud to build something of this quality.
- s1mon 2y agoThe demo is fluid and works well, but I'm not sure I understand what problem this is solving when things like Matterport are already doing this with real images of spaces. It doesn't require floor plans. In many cases floor plans aren't easily available. Polycam and others are helping with automating the creation of 2D and 3D models from real spaces using LIDAR scanning. How is Roometron different from any of the other tools that are on the market?
- streakolay 2y agoMatterport are quite expensive, it can be as $500 / year to store few of your 3d walkthroughs. And Im not trying to replace it or something, I just knew that many online floor plan aggregators, construction builders and etc looking for a way to turn their floor plans into 3D or walkthrough videos.
- gamblor956 2y agoWhat market segment are you targeting that needs 3d walkthroughs of real estate but finds $500/year too expensive?
- ghostly_s 2y agoAdmittedly I have no idea what an "online floor plan aggregator" is, but I don't see why any of Matterport's commercial property management customers would want to put in the far greater amount of work this requires of them rather than just throwing some money at Matterport to come out and scan it?
- mattfrommars 2y agoMatterport needs cameras and specialize rig to convert into fully working 3D model. Does yours make a virtual 3d model and builds a wire frame using 2D image of a floor plan?
- jp0d 2y agoWe're building our first home with a local construction company down here in Australia. I remembered browsing house designs using a virtual 3d plan that enabled me to walk around the house. Your idea looked very similar. I found one example online and turns out they're using Matterport. https://www.carlislehomes.com.au/home-designs/canterbury/?c=Grand+Atrium&v=47 https://www.carlislehomes.com.au/home-designs/canterbury/?c=...
- ibdf 2y agoDamn... that bathroom mirror reflection!
- glitcher 2y agoThat was nice! Made me feel like a vampire for a moment hehe
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- Hexigonz 2y agoI'm most interested in the AI interior design. Is it using products that are available? Can we set budgets for the designs? Seems like a product in and of itself in that one feature.
- streakolay 2y agoThis feature is marked as "Coming soon" and not ready yet, but the idea is to feed a room screenshot to AI and to generate a realistic design based on this and on a text prompt.
- darajava 2y agoTypo on landing page “as just $16” should be “at just $16”
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- bdcravens 2y agoIt seems to me that the greatest risk in a 5 year build out is "obsolete" technology. No technology is really obsolete (you could totally build a startup on classic ASP or jQuery), but I know as standards change, polyfills are no longer needed, libraries become abandoned, etc, it can be tricky. On a side note, I wish this was around in 2022. While I see it's designed for apartments, I spent a ridiculous amount of time converting our new house dimensions into a 3d model as we were planning out furniture, etc.
- streakolay 2y agoIt's also risky to be replaced by AI nowadays :D
- tmikaeld 2y agoHm, I wish this could use a smartphone with lidar (Like iPhones/iPads) to scan the environment and create the 3D models. The viewer itself is very impressive and I see it will soon support VR. But I've never seen the viewer as the problem - capturing of the environment in an easy and affordable way - that's what's needed. Right now you have to resort to expensive 3D camera rigs.
- worldmerge 2y agoHave you used Polycam with an iPhone with a lidar sensor? They can scan your surroundings and export to a 3d model.
- jddj 2y agoMetaroom does this with an iPhone
- 20after4 2y agoA lot of real estate agents pay photographers to do virtual walk-throughs of their properties. You might be able to partner with the photographers and get them to up-sell their customers with your product.
- cabalamat 2y agoIs it intentional that the 3D plan image doesn't show the positions of doors and windows? They seem kinda important to me.
- amelius 2y agoIt looks nice, well done, but so far I see nothing more than a static 3D model ... so it is difficult to form a good opinion, unfortunately.
- streakolay 2y agoVirtual apartments are mostly static 3D models =)
- amelius 2y agoUnless you're building an editor for said models ;)
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- mtlynch 2y agoI'm not the target customer, but I just wanted to say I think the UX is beautiful.
- thot_experiment 2y agoHave you read this? https://acko.net/blog/i-is-for-intent/ https://acko.net/blog/i-is-for-intent/ I thought at first you were the author!
- giancarlostoro 2y agoFunny, I worked on something similar. My first job we needed to build up some fancy 3D alerting system for a client. I found a threejs based project on GitHub (I think it was called BluePrint 3D) and pitched it to my boss, it saved me screaming for help at figuring out how to build the same things in three JS with zero experience, but also saved us hundreds of hours to rebuild the same thing. It looked somewhat like this tool, though I'm sure this ones way more polished. It too had a 2D editor for 3D, it was cool, but we were just building floorplans and displaying live data on those floor plans, so all the useful design stuff was scrapped for the most part. This looks nicely polished, good job. It was a painful project due to the client asking for things that were just... well they were insane.
- westurner 2y agoNeural radiance fields: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_radiance_field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_radiance_field : > A neural radiance field (NeRF) is a method based on deep learning for reconstructing a three-dimensional representation of a scene from two-dimensional images. The NeRF model enables downstream applications of novel view synthesis, scene geometry reconstruction, and obtaining the reflectance properties of the scene. Additional scene properties such as camera poses may also be jointly learned. First introduced in 2020,[1] it has since gained significant attention for its potential applications in computer graphics and content creation.[2] - https://nerf.studio/ https://nerf.studio/ - https://smerf-3d.github.io/ https://smerf-3d.github.io/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38636329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38636329 - Business Concept: A b2b business idea from awhile ago expanded: "Adjustable Wire Shelving Emporium"; [business, office supply] client product mix 3D configurator with product placement upsells; from photos of a space to products that would work there. Presumably there's already dimensional calibration with a known-good dimension or two; - ENH: the tabletop in that photo is n x m, so the rest of the objects are probably about - ENH: the building was constructed in YYYY in Locality, so the building code there then said that the commercial framing studs should be here and the cables and wiring should be there.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoMy issue was moreso I had 0 experience with 3D and they wanted me to slap something together with threejs. I didn't even know JavaScript that well at the time. That is a pretty cool project though.
- VladaTosic 2y agoI've been working on my project for "only" one year, so I feel I'm in great shape :) Kudos for pushing through!
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- strongpigeon 2y agoLove it. Congrats on shipping! Most of the 3D floor plan stuff out there looks pretty bad I found, but yours looks really great. I love a good orthographic camera and disappearing walls like that! Really scratches that itch for me. What I'd personally love is to have this but with the ability to see inside walls and have layers for, electrical circuits, network cables or even where my studs are. Basically a full model of my house (or as some people call it, a digital twin). This is probably too niche, but heh, just putting it out there.
- sirjaz 2y agoAmazing job! Have you ever thought about porting this to a desktop app?
- dougunplugged 2y agoI was double billed and using your support chat widget resulted in "Opps.. Seems somethig went wrong". Nick, how do I get in touch with you? My user ID is "VvAShB".
- streakolay 2y agoHey, sorry for that. I've noticed it and sent you a message on gmail already. I will make a refund soon, no worries.
- cptskippy 2y agoI had a similar issue. I was quoted $33 because I put in sq.ft for the area instead of sq.m. When I corrected the area it quoted $17. I paid and it charged me $33.
- dougunplugged 2y agoThanks. Well received. The issue was resolved.
- paulgerhardt 2y agoNice. I'm remodeling a place now. Observations from trying the flow: Fell off the flow when I had to rasterize our plans, when I tried to add multiple rooms, and again during checkout. PDF support should be a must, ideally multiple room support. Making sure checkout works is also a must. Path was Navigate to Roometron.com=>create account=>create new project=>go to upload my plans=>couldn't select my plans=>saw site didn't support pdf but did webp=>google "pdf to webp" converter=>found some suspicious sites to upload pdf's to=>went to chatgpt to write a script to convert pdf to webp=>saw the script was converting to png anyways=>went back to the roometron site and saw png was supported=>brew install poppler webp =>`pdftocairo -png plans.pdf page`=>upload page 1=>can't find where to upload the rest of the pages for multiple rooms (also my plans have multiple rooms per page)=>exit out=>seeing as this is a "shown hn" decide I'll try again and push through with just the first page of plans only=>see I need my square footage for the first page=>see its only listed for the floor=>manually measure my square footage for the uploaded page=>convert to square meters=>go to checkout=> enter in my credit card info=>can't scroll down to click "complete purchase" because of a rendering error presumably because the info was autopopulated=>quit the credit card flow=>attempt the paypal flow despite absolutely loathing paypal=>sign into paypal=>receive a payment request for $50 not $17=>think this doesn't look right=>quit the flow=>try to find a different payment option=>exiting the payment flow deletes my project=>completely give up here.
- btbuildem 2y agoCan't say you didn't try to make it work!
- streakolay 2y agoSorry for making you struggle, I will try to make the order process more straightforward. Please let me know about the refund, I guess I did message you on gmail.
- metaquery 2y agoFYI I also bailed when the price went up from 17$ to 50$ after I had entered my credit card. Also it was very unclear to me what is the minimum quality of the floor plans on my side (i.e. is what I have good enough for your system?).
- huevosabio 2y agoI love this! I have an AirBnB with multiple rooms in Mexico (https://laotraaldeita.com/ https://laotraaldeita.com/) and I get relatively often questions about floor plans. I feel like showing floorplans directly isn't as intuitive for showing off the space, and that using 3D scanners is a huge overkill. I do have the floorplans so I may give it a try!
- kccqzy 2y agoI just use magicplan (a freemium app) to create floor plans just by scanning with my phone. Of course it won't be as accurate as a proper 3D scanner but prospective renters aren't going to notice. You can of course edit the floor plan afterwards.
- neilv 2y agoFor recent-construction and modern gut-renovation apartments, these simple geometric abstraction renderings are nice and helpful. For older apartments, such as dominate many older cities or older parts of town, that existing competitor's tool, which includes photograph textures and more "organic" 3D modeling, seems more useful in getting a sense of what the place is actually like.
- jillesvangurp 2y agoAmazing stuff. I'm CTO of a company called FORMATION. We build an app that uses indoor maps to allow workers in offices, factories, and other workplaces to interact with their workplace via search, QR codes, and just clicking around in the app. We are pretty early stage but a big bottleneck in onboarding new customers is getting decent quality indoor maps. There are a lot of apps and tools for this. I'd love to see a 2D version of this. 3D is nice but a bit fiddly to interact with. 2D works much better. Especially on mobile. A second point is that the map is a the backdrop for our app and not the main focus. I think this is true for a lot of apps that use maps: the map is not the main feature but merely to context in which you present information. So far, we've just been winging this. We work with external designers to clean up whatever images we receive to make them a bit nicer and then just georeference the bitmap on top of openstreetmap (via maptiler and maplibre). If you want to discuss further, feel free tor reach out privately, my handle is globally unique ;-).
- Xt-6 2y agoYou should check out Hover https://hover.to/interiors/ https://hover.to/interiors/
- iamjackg 2y agoThis is an incredible idea. I decided to give it a try, but got discouraged because there's no guidance during the process on what will or won't work. I don't know if the floorplan I have will "work," and I don't understand why it's asking for things like the total area of the floorplan or how that will affect the AI's ability to parse the image and create the rooms. I imagine it's necessary to give a point of reference for the scale of the drawing, but does it also infer things from text on the floorplan or not? Or is the visual language of floorplans standardized across states/provinces/codes to the point where I don't have to worry, as long as it's a "real" floorplan? It's hard to commit to a purchase when I have no idea what the end result will look like. It would be really helpful to have a gallery of examples showing floorplans and their corresponding 3D results. That way, I could better understand what kinds of input work well and which don’t.
- faaarmer 2y agoI agree. I have some floor plans of my apartment and I'd love to try but for $50AUD for both floors, I don't know what I'm going to get - or if it's editable after the fact ie adding furniture - or if I'm stuck with what I get on the first go.
- lastdong 2y agoAbsolutely stunning. From quick play, in first person mode, moving from room to room isn’t as obvious, maybe consider adding a translucent clickable item at the rooms entrance.
- streakolay 2y agoThanks! Im was thinking to add a guidance screen, just need to find a proper design for it.
- alsetmusic 2y agoThat this renders smoothly on mobile is quite impressive. Congratulations on a fine job.
- LoganDark 2y agoThe rendering looks blurry on my display. It looks like the devicePixelRatio is not taken into account. If you want to improve the experience for the everyday user (who could have some ultrabook with a 125% to 250% scale factor, depending on model) I'd highly recommend adjusting the canvas resolution according to the devicePixelRatio
- streakolay 2y agoIt's taken, but there are some restrictions for the high ratios (better to make it blurry than laggy) and there are also a settings button allows to force high resolution
- btbuildem 2y agoDo you want to see your future? Check out Homestyler [1] I've used this several years ago to mock up some designs (eventually hired an architect). The tool was still helpful when I transcribed the architect-made plans to the online app, and twiddled around with some details, furniture layouts, etc etc. It's gotten pretty bloated since, they've got libraries upon libraries of fugly elements (furniture, decorations, architectural details etc) that you can add, but some of the useful core functionality (3d renders, 2d plans with dimensions) still remain. 1: https://www.homestyler.com/ https://www.homestyler.com/
- lelanthran 2y ago> Do you want to see your future? Check out Homestyler [1] Doesn't appear to work in FF; provides a link to download google chrome instead.
- oulu2006 2y agoTrue, they're both very good.
- fudged71 2y agoIs anyone aware of a tool for residential apartment building design to split up an apartment unit envelope into reasonable floorplans for review?
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- bobjoe369 2y agoIs there any way to preview the 3d model created from the floorplan? Some floorplans I have are a bit blurry and I have no idea how this will translate into floorplans so to have to pay $100+ without any guarantee of success is not ideal
- streakolay 2y agoThe output will be the same quality as you can find on the landing page, it doesn't matter how blurry the original image, but if the original image is not working, you will be asked to upload a better one or simply refunded.
- Daegalus 2y agoI just paid for a project, but got charged $33 on Paypal instead of $17, and then it lost my project and no history of the transaction in my transactions on the dashboard. I tried sending a message to support, and it threw an error, so trying here. I understand shit happens, I am not irate, but I would like to remedy this.
- streakolay 2y agoHi, if you didn't receive a refund, please contact me over the support form or email. Thanks.
- Daegalus 2y agoI got one, thank you!
- iFire 2y agoWow, nice work. Our attempt was providing tools making vrchat-like worlds in Godot Engine. We have many of the mesh construction tooling but we never made to the product.
- hemloc_io 2y agoVery cool! I was about to work on something similar inspired by my NYC apartment hunt. I'd HIGHLY recommend advertising to the NYC renters market if you haven't already. Often it's the one with the least amount of info and there's a lot of well to do people who won't mind paying for this.
- streakolay 2y agoThanks, I will take a look :)
- genezeta 2y agoOn Firefox, trying the demo viewer "Try it out": If you click -particularly on a room's label, but also happens when clicking somewhere else-, everything disappears except for the labels. If you click again, everything comes back. Sometimes when click-dragging to rotate, this produces an annoying flash -white for an instant then everything's redrawn. Also some textures seem to not be loading properly. All furniture remains black.
- delusional 2y agoIs the "Video Tour" AI generated? The showcase obviously is, but is that also what you want to ship?
- l33tbro 2y agoPay a copywriter. Language like "boost up" instead of just "boost" risks making the product feel very amateur on first impression.
- tamimio 2y agoI have used ArchiCAD to do the same thing before. My question is, what’s the advantage of having it as a web app? Can I, for example, embed it into my site?
- cbhl 2y agoI'm curious if you've seen Matterport yet? IIRC they had a 3d virtual tour embed that works by capturing apartments using real camera images (vs from floor plan). They seemed pretty common in SF Bay Area.
- streakolay 2y agoIn case if there are no physical apartment yet, but the floor plan is exist, this tool might be useful.
- deepfriedbits 2y agoThis is fantastic! Excellent work. Congrats on shipping this.
- xiaodai 2y agoI had similar idea but looks someone's actually made it.
- streakolay 2y ago:D
- victor9000 2y agoHow do I delete my account?
- faaarmer 2y agoFairly confusing UI - I thought I had lost my room plan I had made until I saw it in the "Submit for UI" queue. I see some broken images too.
- webprofusion 2y agoLook cool, I used HomeByMe for similar stuff when planning an extension. It had the benefit of optional offline render for photorealistic output, nowadays you could perhaps export the scene as GLTF and send it to blender.
- xyst 2y agoCongrats. Looks pretty good. Better than what I can hack together in Blender with BIM plugin
- stard 2y ago[flagged]
- bijutoha 2y agoI love that it offers features like 3D floor plan images, video tours, and AI-powered interior design at an affordable price. This could really enhance the way properties are showcased online. Have you tried their service yet, and how was your experience?
- mattfrommars 2y agoI admire people who are able to really believe in an idea they come up with and spent many years building it. I'm sure OP when you started off, you saw competitor offering, what made the turning point that made you realize and committed, "you know out of a million other ideas, this is what I want to work with". I have a million ideas on my diary and have yet to build any of them. They aren't truly unique but I see them as a "practice" that when one Mythical day I don't have worried and have ample time, I can take the first step. My current free time is occupied by job hunt and LC.. Also, in term of technologies, what is the core idea/tool that converts 2d drawing into 3d. Is it truly automatic or some core principles behind it, like OCR but for 3d models? I have zero exposure in OpenCV
- month13 2y agoRan into the same payment bug mentioned elsewhere, also would like to mention the tech support gives "Oops a problem occurred" when trying to submit. Looks schmick tho, and have been looking for a tool to plan out my place before I move in, found most tools expensive or lacking.
- stephenr 2y agoAm I missing something? This needs you to have the room layout already, and then creates some kind of 3d view from that?
- fridental 2y agoNo, no, oh God please nooooo. People will use this tool for their listings on real-estate classifieds portals like Zillow. The real estate listed there is never a bespoke design for you and your family. In some locations, there are plenty of affordable homes so you actually can choose one with the layout nearest to your goals. In the most cases though, affordable homes are rare so people don't really care about the current layout: they will buy any home and remodel it in according to their tastes. To estimate the remodeling costs, it is better to work with the bare, empty layout plans, not cluttered with furniture and 3D effects, and having all measures specified.
- parski 2y ago> I've spent five years on this > OH GOD PLEASE NOOOO I wonder if OP should have tested this on their audience earlier of if commenter is not part of their audience.
- tecleandor 2y agoThey're already doing it (not with this tool, of course). At least around here (Spain), when selling shitty (but expensive) apartments, they'll publish "artist renditions of possible remodels" instead of the actual current state of the home.
- Pikamander2 2y ago@streakolay - What's the reason for the checkout price changing at the last minute? I see several people mentioning that they were quoted $17 and then charged $33 (x2) or $50 (x3), but I don't see any replies explaining the reason or confirming that it's a bug. Surely it's not an intentional bait-and-switch, right? That would be an extremely scummy anti-pattern; the cart price should always match the final checkout price aside from reasonable surcharges like tax and shipping that should be displayed as soon as the needed information is collected. The fact that the mentioned higher amounts are almost perfectly double or triple the quoted amount makes it sound like some kind of error, like either a server-side bug or a user accidentally adding several copies to their cart without realizing it. Can you please clarify the reason for the discrepancy?
- streakolay 2y agoThere are actually nothing hidden or not transparent about the payments, it says $17 for the areas under 70 sq.m or 750 sq.ft, for the bigger areas the price is up. I'm not quite sure is it a bug there, but I turned off the payment form for now. And I already did refund the guys who messaged me about it, so please contact me if you have a payment problem.
- PetitPrince 2y agoMinor nitpick: having a big TV in the child bedroom feels wrong. Put some toys or something more indicative of a child instead.
- arjunbahl1910 2y agoThe messaging around potential use case seen on the landing page is so concise and clear, further, product itself felt interesting and very interactive to me. Wish you good luck with your journey!
- alt227 2y agoJust another post saying well done. You found a niche and filled it with an excellent product in your free time. I hope you get offered lots of money for this project.
- pockybum522 2y agoVery cool, and very impressive work. I want to preface this by making it clear that this is supposed to be constructive feedback. You may want to have GPT-4 give some alternate wording for some lines on the homepage. "Child bedroom" would likely be referred to as "Children's Bedroom" or "Child's Bedroom" and "Allow to go through the 3d space for an immersive VR experience" might be "Walk-through generated spaces in immersive 3D" for some examples. I've been working in 3D CAD for about half a decade now, and I would expect smoother copy. This is the only critique I have, because the actual product looks great.
- streakolay 2y agoThanks man, I've changed the text to your suggestion.
- davedx 2y agoSent this to a friend who's a realtor. Good luck!
- jokethrowaway 2y agoCool tech, albeit plenty of work left. Sell it to architects for an expensive subscription, don't bother with 17$ from random people online. And good luck, because selling to small businesses is hard and expensive.
- streakolay 2y agoYeah, make sense. Thank you
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- c0mbonat0r 2y agowhat model are you using?
- jclos 2y agoThis is very cool, but I feel like I should tell you from a marketing perspective that in French "etron" means turd.
- streakolay 2y agolol, I will have to change the logo colors then
- meetapoorvgupta 2y agoHi, this looks cool. I have the floorplan & measurements of an apartment. I'd like to see how it looks with furniture. Does this allow me to generate multiple furnishing styles until I find one I like? Does it give me links to the product pages of the furniture? I understand that this is a different use case from what you had in mind. I'm also open to recommendations of other websites.