PrimalNick

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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
That's cool. What kind of work? It is more of that data. Most people can't afford an architect and almost everyone who buys a templated plan from one of those sites ends up changing it for another $5k-$15k with a drafter (lower co
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
I like your house plan collection. Thanks for sharing. You should try creating a house and let me know what you think.
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
They are actual blueprints!
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
Super cool! What's your email?
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
We have people in almost every country use the product, but we need to add metric system for it to be more relevant. There are likely much different codes as well and this has been trained on US houses. It can still function as an ideation
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
I don't see your email in your bio, so I followed you on X to DM you.
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
In 2-3 days, we are pushing a change to the flow of the product to start on a project and orient more heavily towards designing with a purpose. That page will still exist, but as a place you go for inspiration or a starting point (we have r
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
Thank you! At some point we will. We are working through the basic generative interactions mechanics and manual editing to allow for people who need to get more nuanced to do so and then will incorporate a chat layer for those that want to
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
That's definitely a good use case. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to design a home. We aren't trying to replace an architect. It'll allow people who couldn't do it before to now do it (0->1) and empower pe
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
Completely agree with this. Most cities in the US are not that strict. Those cities are where building actually happen. Not in LA, Bay Area, etc, etc. Majority of homes being constructed in the US are done in areas where as long as you foll
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
You are literally building your own house? that's cool! I started and ran a tech-enabled pre-construction service for ~6 years and grew up in a homebuilding family. Codes, structural, MEP, and pricing are definitely huge pieces of the
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
There are a lot of people who dream scroll well in advance of buying or building, so we hope this can be a good place for productive exploration. I'm hoping people get inspired enough to want to go build.
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
I haven't seen anything that can do that. If you're wanting to walkthrough a house that's listed, some houses have 3D walkthroughs. We are working on being able to upload a floor plan to start editing, which hopefully opens t
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
A bidet would be cool and something we can add to the roadmap!
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
We've had people design a house in the software and then recreate it in the sims. We also added .GLB file types because game designers were wanting to put houses in their video games.
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
Thank you for trying it out :) There's an insanely big probability space and everyone has very unique desires/preferences when designing. I'm really excited to see what people come up with.
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
Let me know how it goes! Engineering would be awesome! We want to get to training the model on structural constraints. We will start with basic foundation drawing, but will get deeper as we have the bandwidth to do it.
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
We had a bug with our furnishing generations that is now fixed, we are working on backfilling all of the old renders that had the issue. Hopefully this fixes most of the room rewriting that's happening.
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
Yeah - we are working on adding multi-story in the next 2 months. I'd love to have you try it :D Zoning constraints will likely be another few months beyond multi-story.
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
Right now we are focused on single-family ground-up design. There are people using it for ADUs, but it's not trained to do that well. We plan to make the model better for ADU's after we get through multi-story houses :)
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
I appreciate the feedback. They aren't perfect. The renders are just aethetic images that often rewrite the plan, the base plan that you can download doesn't include these. We are working on adding the generation for these objects
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
Thank you :)
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by PrimalNick 3mo ago
Thank you! After we get through building out the basic design tooling, we plan to get more into designing a specific plot of land and will look at adding zoning related contraints.
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Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture
60 points by PrimalNick 3mo ago|63 comments
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by PrimalNick 5mo ago
We are in the current batch and haven't "launched" yet