Show HN: HomeCat – Design your backyard office
Posted by dearilos 21 hours ago
Hey HN! Ilya and Nikita here. We’re building HomeCat, a tool that lets you design a backyard office space - https://myhomecat.com
We started out by helping people design sheds, and quickly realized that many people actually want to build a backyard office. There wasn't really an easy way to do this, so we thought we'd take on the challenge.
Right now, you can design a backyard shed and our tool will make it code compliant. It's maybe 90% of the way there, since you also have zoning/HOA and other edge cases. But it does figure out most of the details for you. Right now, it's pretty simple: enter your address, what you want to build (i.e. 8x8 backyard office), and it'll create a few concepts for you. If you like one, you can customize it with the chat.
Here's an example of a design that's compliant in SF: https://myhomecat.com/scene/classic-cottage-137134ef
We would love for you to try our tool if you are planning your backyard office. As a bonus to the HN community, we can professionally design one for you for free if you comment what you're looking for.
Happy labor day!
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Comment by dearilos 19 hours ago
Edit: back up and working now!
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[1] it's slightly more complicated than this
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Specifically the roof edge vs base edge, the back of the roof vs the front of the roof.
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