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Hi friends,

I'm Nick. This is Roometron, my first project that I managed to launch by myself while being a web developer and having a full-time job.

I started working on it in 2019, so it took almost 5 years to deliver a beta version now.

It was both a fun and challenging journey. I didn't expect things to go so slowly, but anyway, I'm happy to announce it's finally launched.

What is Roometron?

Roometron is a tool that converts floor plans into 3D apartments. It is VR-ready, highly performant, fast, efficient, and affordable due to its incredible automation.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Cheers.

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Hi Nick,

I'm probably not in the target audience, but still, it looks lovely, I've enjoyed exploring the 3d part.

As a suggestion, a full screen button for the 3d scene would be nice, as I don't have VR, just a regular monitor. And if you're feeling adventurous, you could maybe even add WASD support for greater immersion. But that's a bit of work, as you would probably also have to include a physics lib for dealing with collisions.

Also, I almost didn't see the "try it out" link.

All the best with your project!

Agree - WSAD or just cursor keys would make it really 'walking' - currently it's more like 'click to jump' :)

Also, could you tweak you algorithm to have the geometry deform less at the edges of the viewport? At the moment it's a little extreme and distracting.

Hey Nick, congrats on the launch.

I created an account with the intention of kicking the tires, but I have hit wall after wall and I never actually got to the cool 3D part.

If you take one thing from this message, I strongly urge you to make sure that new accounts start with a sample project in the list which people can play with to see what to expect.

In my case, I don't have a floor plan or know my square meters. I went onto Google images and borrowed a plan to upload. The TL;DR is that it seems like I have to pay $33 to see what this place would look like in 3D, and that's when I bounced. I'm curious, but I'm not that curious.

After the sample project, I hope that you will add a 2-3 minute onboarding video to show people how to get started. Getting dropped into any interface with only a vague idea of what is supposed to happen is a guaranteed way to lose 90% of your visitors to unnecessary friction.

Make it stupid simple to get started. Give people a look at the outcome so that they know what to covet.

I didn't really expect such a curiosity and my initial idea is to make this tool beneficial for real estate agencies and builders and only then try to make it useful for a wide audience :) Thanks for you interest and feedback.

Nice.

Feature request: In the top/overview view I would like to be able to tap on each room and then the pivot point should move to the center of that room. After a double tap or tap on the top view button the pivot point should move back to the apartment center point. This will help zooming easily into each room from above.

Yeah, nice notice. I believe I will find time to implement such or similar features with the future updates.

Hi Nick, I have nothing more to say but congratulations, the whole project is put together really well, one can see that this thing was crafted with love.

I hope it does well in the market and you can profit off your work in here.

Best of luck!

Thank you so much:)

Does this accept the floorplans you see on apartment websites, or can it accept draft floorplans like this? https://starttofinishdrafting.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08...

That is a great feature idea!

Yes, this one might be processed manually.

i work for a large swedish furniture company. can we chat?

Buyout incoming ;)

Sure, we can chat here or via the contact form on the website

pinged

Does it rhyme with Pikea?

I key, uhhh... Acquisition? ;)

Tell them to pay their taxes

Hey Nick, Congratulations on the launch and well done for getting it out there in the wild!

Looks cool at a glance and wishing you all the best with it!

Thanks so much!

VR ready? Well that's interesting, I have to check it out.

You probably should mention that on the front page somewhere

It's not mentioned because I didn't add a WebXR support to the viewer yet, but the concept allows to do it shortly enough.

So what do you mean by "It is VR-ready"?

You plan to add VR in the future?

Means that technology are compatible with VR headsets. I will add VR support near time, no worries:)

any chance of vision pro support?

It's going to work with any of VR headsets that support WebXR

Have you consulted a language model on other possible product names? Wasn’t very possible in 2019 but has been my goto since 2022

No, I didn't. I've been stick with the name before AI massively spread around

What BIM formats does it support?

I don't think it's ever will be possible to show a BIM model in this tool, but rather to convert 3D file from Roometron to BIM formats is possible.

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