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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 theendisney »

paulcn wrote: post #16
tobr wrote: post #12

I don’t know that I understand the value of this. The examples show structural elements like doors and windows being changed. To be of any use it would need to know what in the input image is impossible or impractical to change, and keep those things exactly identical in the output. Otherwise it’s like looking at a somewhat similar room, and then you might as well just go look for actual photographic inspiration, or…

Yes, these random layout glitches can occur with certain styles. I’m working on improving this. It's currently just an MVP, and I’m gauging interest before investing more time into it.

It is certainly interesting and you could take it in coutless directions. For example, say one provides a good number of photos of each piece of furniture in a room. A good number of pictures of the room dimensions then get a slide show with every possible configuration.

This would be worth something.

People do this by moving things around and with paper cutouts. Much easier to pay 20-30 and see all variations.

You then take pictures from something you want to buy and pay the fee again to see 50 or 200 implementations.

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

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Post by itishappy »

paulcn wrote: post #13
itishappy wrote: post #10

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 w…

Thanks for the feedback! You're right, I should include the ground truth. The model is still inconsistent with layouts, and I'm working on improving this to reduce those layout issues. At the moment, I see it primarily as a source of inspiration (mainly B2C), but as it improves it could evolve into a more B2B tool for interior architects for example. Yes, a design is an image. Right now, I offer only 5 images, but th…

Might just be my preconceptions showing then. If you care to address cranky old folks like me, a few before/after images (or even those fancy JS sliders) would do wonders to clear up how you see your tool being used. For example, you mention it works with sketches, and I'm super curious to see how that works. It also acts as a basic example for those of us too lazy (or paranoid) to create an account.

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

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Post by paulcn »

theendisney wrote: post #21
paulcn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, these random layout glitches can occur with certain styles. I’m working on improving this. It's currently just an MVP, and I’m gauging interest before investing more time into it.

It is certainly interesting and you could take it in coutless directions. For example, say one provides a good number of photos of each piece of furniture in a room. A good number of pictures of the room dimensions then get a slide show with every possible configuration. This would be worth something. People do this by moving things around and with paper cutouts. Much easier to pay 20-30 and see all variations. You t…

Man, this idea of visualizing all possible furniture configurations in a room is genius! need to build this

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

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Post by wappieslurkz »

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?

You can easily "convert" wide angle photos to "normal" photos by just cropping out at least 50% of the wide angle photo.

Try it with your smartphone: make two pictures from exactly the same position, one with your wide angle lens and one with your normal lens. After that you should be able to crop the wide angle version in such a way that the framing & composition will be almost identical to the normal angled photo.

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

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Post by theendisney »

paulcn wrote: post #24
theendisney wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is certainly interesting and you could take it in coutless directions. For example, say one provides a good number of photos of each piece of furniture in a room. A good number of pictures of the room dimensions then get a slide show with every possible configuration. This would be worth something. People do this by moving things around and with paper cutouts. Much easier to pay 20-30 and see all variations. You t…

Man, this idea of visualizing all possible furniture configurations in a room is genius! need to build this

It was just an example. I think I can make them up non stop. [Say] Product placement in the current implementation would probably allow for more profit, a free to use tool and interesting updates. One would have to check periodically. You would also get the trendy styles in your tool for free.

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

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Post by stemlord »

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…

Virtual staging is already a thing that real estate agents do, as long as the photo is watermarked as "virtually staged"
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