Show HN: I made this tool to re-design your room in one click

Can you make a tool to convert real estate agents' wide-angle photos of homes into images that enable the person viewing them to get a sense of the actual room dimensions?

Re: Show HN: I made this tool to re-design your room in one click

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Post by nonameiguess » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 7:36 PM UTC

So, I figured as much that "one click" had to mean you've got image-manipulation software that will change the look of a photo of my home, as there is no possible way for me to re-design anything myself in one click or any other small number of clicks and brevity is kind of not really the point anyway.

It does seem useful for real estate agents, assuming buyers are going to be sufficiently swayed by simulated photos of what the inside of a house could look like even when they go for a visit and it's empty in reality, plus the photos seemingly wouldn't match the furniture and decor they actually own. The wording for people already living in a home is a bit specious, though, I'd say. Generating something that looks like a photo is not "bringing my vision to life." Life isn't a photo. Obviously, it's too much to ask you to give me a team of robots that can change my actual house as opposed to a photo of it, at least for a cheap price, but let's be real on the limitations of what you can do with this.

Does it have any connections to furniture and decor sellers such that the images it generates are images that even can be brought to life without me having to build everything from scratch? Does it know or try to estimate dimensions and show things that will actually fit? If I give it photos of all of my rooms, can it move furniture I already own between them to possibly give a better allocation than what I've got now?

Obviously, I could sign up and try to figure these out for myself, but I suppose the biggest issue is I have no idea who you are and see no reason I should trust you with photos of the interior of my home. Your entire page here makes not a single mention of data privacy.

Re: Show HN: I made this tool to re-design your room in one click

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Post by paulcn » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 7:46 PM UTC

thimkerbell wrote: post #4

Can you make a tool to convert real estate agents' wide-angle photos of homes into images that enable the person viewing them to get a sense of the actual room dimensions?

I believe it's possible. Could you share an example to help me better understand the task? Feel free to email me at paul.chauvin@home-imagine.com

Re: Show HN: I made this tool to re-design your room in one click

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Post by paulcn » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

Hadriel wrote: post #2

you made your forms wrong on the front-end, it's not auto-filling.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll get that fixed. Have you had a chance to try it yet?

Re: Show HN: I made this tool to re-design your room in one click

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Post by CommieBobDole » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 7:53 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: I made this tool to re-design your room in one click

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Post by paulcn » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 8:00 PM UTC

nonameiguess wrote: post #5

So, I figured as much that "one click" had to mean you've got image-manipulation software that will change the look of a photo of my home, as there is no possible way for me to re-design anything myself in one click or any other small number of clicks and brevity is kind of not really the point anyway. It does seem useful for real estate agents, assuming buyers are going to be sufficiently swayed by simulated photos…

Thanks for your comment! It's really helpful for prioritizing future features. I find the idea of re-allocating furniture really interesting. Right now, the tool focuses mainly on changing styles, but I’m working on adding more features, like the ability to add or remove actual furniture from the space.

This is essentially an MVP, and I’m testing interest before building out more. (I could have just set up a landing page with a form, but I wanted to see the real engagement.) That’s why some elements, like privacy policies and terms and conditions, aren’t there yet—I'll try to add those this weekend.

By the way, I'm Paul, the founder of Mailead.io. You can find my Twitter at the bottom of the site!

Re: Show HN: I made this tool to re-design your room in one click

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Post by itishappy » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 8:06 PM UTC

Is there a ground truth photo? It looks like the images here are all AI generated, which seems an odd choice if you're targeting real estate where (I'd hope) there's value in having the generated image accurately reflect the actual room. That it appears to freely change the room layout (doors and hallways imagined into the corner of a few rooms, dimensions don't appear super consistent) may imply my assumptions are wrong about your target market. This isn't a comment on your work so much as your users. If this tool is being used for inspirational home improvement, great! But when this stuff starts showing up in real estate and AirBnB listings, that starts feeling like fraud.

Also, I don't understand the pricing model: free to start but $0.08 per design. What's a "design?" I assume a single image. How many designs are offered for free?