October 18th, 2024

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

Home-Imagine is an AI platform that generates customizable photorealistic interior designs from user photos, catering to various audiences with flexible pricing and upcoming features for enhanced editing and visualization.

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

Home-Imagine is an AI-powered platform designed to simplify the interior design process. Users can take a photo of a room and select from various styles, such as Bohemian or Art Deco, to generate photorealistic designs. The platform allows for customization by enabling users to choose room types, objects, and materials, making it versatile for different design preferences. Upcoming features include the ability to empty spaces of furniture, enhance image quality, and make precise room edits. Home-Imagine caters to a wide audience, including homeowners, interior designers, real estate agents, and architects, by providing tools to visualize and create interior designs quickly. The pricing model is flexible, offering a free start and a pay-as-you-go option for additional designs. Users can experiment with colors and materials to bring their visions to life without needing prior design skills. The platform aims to save time, inspire creativity, and enhance property listings for real estate professionals.

- Home-Imagine uses AI to create photorealistic interior designs from user-uploaded photos.

- The platform supports various design styles and allows for extensive customization.

- Upcoming features include image enhancement and precision editing tools.

- It is suitable for homeowners, interior designers, real estate agents, and architects.

- The pricing model includes a free option and a pay-as-you-go system for additional designs.

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By @itishappy - 6 months
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?

By @thimkerbell - 6 months
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?
By @nonameiguess - 6 months
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.

By @tobr - 6 months
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 use any image generator to create an image from scratch.
By @Hadriel - 6 months
you made your forms wrong on the front-end, it's not auto-filling.
By @petarb - 6 months
It’s down for me right now
By @xtracto - 6 months
I see a lot of negative comments. Want to leave a positive one. The site worked fine for me and the process was pretty straight forward.

Image generation took a bit (currently waiting, will keep writing once it finishes). I sent 3 images to generate, and even though the site said "images will be in the "generated" section even after you reload. Once I reloaded there was nothing anywhere, and no sign of the 3 images I sent. I tried re-generating again and the site told me that I only had 2 credits left; so I sent to generate 1. At the end, it only generated 1 image.

original: https://ibb.co/zHYFPbr

generated: https://ibb.co/ZfNCMS9

It feels as if the generator "shrunk" the size of a wall and added some doors in place of a wall. Other than that I like the design.