dearilos
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Heya I'd love to help! Could you shoot me a note to my email in my bio? I didn't see a way to reach out from your profile.
Yes - we only charge for the building plans. So it's $50, but you get to revise as many times as you want. Others have found this really useful for zoning/HOA/permit approval so far.
Everything else like designing, materials lists, code compliance - we intend to keep free.
We actually do want to do more complex interior, and let you add furniture from any catalog. Can I email you on your profile about this?
Can you link your scene? It's possible there is an edge case.
I can add this in too. Sorry, it might take a bit of time!
What province/state/territory in NZ? I can add it in. We just research the code compliance stuff manually so we couldn't cover the entire world but I can add your case in.
Just noticed this - fixing now!
Posted by
dearilos on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:23PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://myhomecat.com
Hey HN! Ilya and Nikita here. We’re building HomeCat, a tool that lets you design a backyard office space - https://myhomecat.comWe 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...
You can plan and design your projects without spending weeks/months on research and understanding how construction and code compliance works. It'll also help you save time/money from having to make extra runs to the hardware store or if you end up making the wrong cut/connection if you DIY the first time.
You can say what you want, and the tool has appropriate guardrails to make sure what you're going to build is safe.
> What would consumer AI company even be?
Something that helps homeowners build anything on their property, for example https://myhomecat.com
Have you started designing? If you're open to it - I could help you jump start this and give you a few designs for free based on what you're thinking about.
Heya I'd love to help you bring it to life and DIY it. I'm working on
https://myhomecat.com/ - which lets you design a code-compliant version and you can fiddle around with budget, needs, etc. I've helped other folks with step by step guides after they've created a design they're happy with.
Can I ask you how you're designing it right now? I could whip up some designs for you for free.
Building a home office in your backyard is really hard. It's a good idea (though expensive) to go with a pre-built if you don't wanna figure all the details out. If you DIY the design and build, you have to figure out:
- What type of floor? (2x4? 2x6? will it hold me and my chair without collapsing?)
- What roof type? How big should the overhang be? What's easier to build yourself vs looks nicer but a real pain to build?
- How many windows should be in my office?
- How do I build something within my budget?
- What size of shed should I go with for my purpose? (workshop? office?)
I'm working on https://myhomecat.com - which lets you do all of this. If you enter your address and the kind of shed you want (i.e. 10x12 office), you should be able to get something fully code-compliant that figures out all of your details. It's still early so it doesn't cover every edge case, but the idea is there and it works really well from the feedback I've gotten.
Posted by
dearilos on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:46PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://myhomecat.com
Hey HN! Ilya and Nikita here. We’re building HomeCat, a tool that turns a video walkthrough of a property into permit-ready building plans - https://myhomecat.comThe basic workflow is:1. Record a video of the property.2. HomeCat picks out details and reconstructs your property.3. We help you plan and design a project, like a new rear deck.4. Once you're happy, you get a drawing set containing...
Put up guardrails to enforce quality code.
We’re fixing this slop problem - engineers write rules that are enforced on PRs. Fixes the problem pretty well so far.
We’re trying to solve a similar problem, but using linters instead over at wispbit.com
We're trying to solve a similar problem at wispbit - this is an interesting way to do it!
We use ast-grep for the determinism part. I should have clarified - we don’t charge for fully deterministic runs. Only ones where the LLM is involved as a judge.
It supports fully deterministic rules, which we use LLMs to help you write.
Agreed on all of this too. This is why we built the CLI tool - to shift left the work.
We combine determinism + LLMs to catch things a human would normally have to. If the LLM finds a violation, it generates a comment.
Big agree on the CLI being open and letting you bring your own inference provider. We’re holding off on it until we get more feedback from some of our hardcore users.
We do a two week trial and then it's $0.2 per file reviewed. Buying in bulk + optimizing rules gives a significant discount.
Posted by
dearilos on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @03:52PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://wispbit.com
Hey HN! Ilya and Nikita here. We're building wispbit (https://wispbit.com) - a tool that helps keep codebase standards alive.With the help of AI coding tools, engineers are writing more code than ever. Code output has increased, but the tooling to manage this hasn't improved. Background agents still write bad code, and your IDE still writes slop without the right context.So we built wispbit. It...
This is pretty much what I’m solving. LLMs need a “linter” of sorts that can guide them to write good code.
I'm building something to solve exactly that - automating all the boring and repetitive parts of code review.
I'm building something to do exactly that - just reduce and automate the boring parts of code review like enforcing standards.