From a5eb93ab6e03308055696a514bb9ea559c554bc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "github-actions[bot]" <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:22:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] venture dollhouse: launch plan --- ventures/dollhouse/LAUNCH.md | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 166 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ventures/dollhouse/LAUNCH.md diff --git a/ventures/dollhouse/LAUNCH.md b/ventures/dollhouse/LAUNCH.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b027281 --- /dev/null +++ b/ventures/dollhouse/LAUNCH.md @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +# Dollhouse: launch plan + +For someone who just signed a lease or is about to rearrange and is arguing about whether the couch fits, Dollhouse turns a hand-drawn floor plan into a shareable isometric diorama in under a minute — no account, no app, no upload, unlike Magicplan or Floorplanner which demand signups and feel like work. + +- **Page:** https://teahubxyz.github.io/time/ventures/dollhouse/ +- **Join early access:** [the issue form](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/issues/new?template=early-access.yml&title=Early+access%3A+Dollhouse&venture=dollhouse&plan=Pro+%28founding%29) (a public GitHub issue; no email, nothing charged) +- **Signal:** https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/issues/19 (👍 = wants the next version) +- **Design:** product-first: the tool fills the first screen and the look follows the product +- **Card:** https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/issues/18 (pitched by `kimi`) + +## Audience: the first 100 users + +The first 100 users are people mid-move or mid-rearrange who already post room-layout questions online: r/malelivingspace and r/femalelivingspace (constant 'does this fit' threads), r/InteriorDesign and r/movingout, Hacker News readers who made storytold/cadcraft and wheresryan22/anatomy trend, and the GitHub discussions of those two repos where people ask for lighter, browser-native spatial tools. + +## Business model + +The free page is the whole product for casual movers and is never paywalled. Airbnb hosts, realtors, and movers pay for Pro: saving multiple properties, true-to-scale furniture dimensions, and branded print-ready posters and PDF exports. That is worth money because a clean floor-plan graphic makes a listing or a moving-day plan look professional and saves them the hours they'd spend in a CAD tool or paying a designer. + +## Pricing (early access: nothing is charged) + +| Tier | Price | For | Includes | +|---|---|---|---| +| Free | $0 | Anyone planning or rearranging one room | Drag-wall floor plan tracing on a grid, small furniture library (couch, bed, desk, plants, TV), live isometric SVG diorama, the whole plan encoded in a shareable URL, one-click PNG/SVG poster download | +| Pro (founding) | $6/mo founding price | Airbnb hosts, realtors, and movers | Save and manage multiple properties, true-to-scale furniture dimensions, branded print-ready floor-plan posters, and PDF exports for listings and moving-day plans. | + +## Primary call to action + +**Join early access**: the header's one button, linking to the early-access form. + +## Launch channels (drafts; nothing is sent) + +### Show HN (news.ycombinator.com) + +> Show HN: Dollhouse – draw your floor plan, get an isometric diorama you can share as a link +> +> Drag walls onto a grid, drop in furniture (couch, bed, desk, plants, TV), and the page renders a polished isometric SVG of your room live. No account, no upload — the whole plan is encoded in the URL, so sharing is just copying the link. One button downloads a PNG or SVG poster. Everything runs client-side as a single static page. +> +> I built it for the 'will the couch fit along that wall' argument when you sign a lease or rearrange. +> +> I'm also gauging interest in a Pro tier for Airbnb hosts, realtors, and movers (saved properties, true-to-scale dimensions, branded PDF exports) via a GitHub issue form linked on the page. It's an early-access list at a founding price — nothing is charged today. +> +> Happy to answer anything about the isometric SVG rendering or the URL encoding. + +### r/malelivingspace (cross-post r/femalelivingspace) + +> Title: I made a free tool that turns your floor plan into an isometric diorama — built for the 'does the couch fit here' debate +> +> Disclosure: this is my own project. +> +> You drag walls onto a grid to trace your room, drop in furniture (couch, bed, desk, plants, TV), and it renders a live isometric 'dollhouse view' as an SVG. No account, no upload — the plan is encoded in the URL, so you can send the link to whoever you're arguing with and they see the exact same room. There's one button to download a PNG/SVG poster. +> +> It's free and runs entirely in your browser. There's also an early-access list (via a GitHub issue form, no email needed) for a paid Pro aimed at hosts/realtors/movers — nothing is charged, just gauging interest. +> +> Link in comments if that's the house rule. Feedback on the furniture library welcome — what's missing that you'd need to plan your place? + +### GitHub Discussions in storytold/cadcraft (replying in threads where people ask a + +> If anyone here wants the opposite end of the spectrum from full CAD — a room layout in under a minute — I built Dollhouse: drag walls onto a grid, drop in furniture, and it renders a live isometric SVG diorama of the room. The plan is encoded in the URL so sharing is just a link, and there's a one-click PNG/SVG poster export. Free, no account, fully client-side, single static page. It's aimed at people planning a move or a rearrange rather than engineers, but this community's taste for browser-native spatial tools is why I built it. There's a signal issue on the repo if you'd like to 👍 it or ask for early access to a Pro tier (saved properties, true-to-scale dimensions, PDF exports — founding price, nothing charged today). + +## 7-day lines + +- **Success:** After 7 days: at least 30 distinct GitHub accounts have either submitted the early-access issue form or 👍'd the signal issue, and at least 3 of the signup comments mention a professional use case (host, realtor, mover) that validates the Pro tier. (at least 30 signups) +- **Kill:** After 7 days: fewer than 5 requests or signal votes (at most 4 signups) + +A signup is a distinct GitHub account, other than the repo owner or a bot, that opened an early-access issue for +Dollhouse or 👍'd the signal issue. Between the lines, the studio watches one more week, then parks it. + +## Where each idea came from + +- positioning: `kimi` +- audience: `kimi` +- business model: `kimi` +- pricing: `kimi` +- primary cta: `kimi` +- launch channels: `kimi` +- metrics: `kimi` + +**Dissent:** grok wanted a simpler $9 Pro tier and GitHub-issue CTA while kimi pushed for founding pricing and a download-focused CTA. + +## The board's plans + +
grok + +```json +{ + "positioning": "For people who just signed a lease and are arguing with a roommate about furniture fit, Dollhouse gives an instant browser isometric view from simple drags instead of CAD software or paper sketches.", + "audience": "People rearranging rooms or moving, gathering in r/floorplans, r/InteriorDesign, r/moving and storytold/cadcraft GitHub issues.", + "business_model": "Airbnb hosts, realtors and movers pay for Pro to save multiple properties, use true-to-scale dimensions and export branded PDFs. This saves time creating listings and moving plans.", + "pricing": [ + { + "tier": "Free", + "price": "$0", + "for": "anyone sketching a room", + "includes": "drag walls and furniture, live isometric SVG, URL sharing, PNG download" + }, + { + "tier": "Pro", + "price": "$9/mo", + "for": "hosts and realtors", + "includes": "multiple properties, true-to-scale dimensions, branded PDF exports" + } + ], + "primary_cta": "Open GitHub Issue", + "launch_channels": [ + { + "channel": "storytold/cadcraft issues", + "draft": "Built a one-page tool to trace a floor plan and see an isometric view live in the browser with no sign-up. Link in the issue. Feedback welcome." + }, + { + "channel": "r/floorplans", + "draft": "Quick browser tool to drag a floor plan and get an isometric diorama you can share via URL. No account needed." + } + ], + "success_metric": "10 people request early access via GitHub issue", + "success_signups": 10, + "kill_metric": "Fewer than 3 requests after 7 days", + "kill_signups": 2 +} +``` + +
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kimi + +```json +{ + "positioning": "For someone who just signed a lease or is about to rearrange and is arguing about whether the couch fits, Dollhouse turns a hand-drawn floor plan into a shareable isometric diorama in under a minute — no account, no app, no upload, unlike Magicplan or Floorplanner which demand signups and feel like work.", + "audience": "The first 100 users are people mid-move or mid-rearrange who already post room-layout questions online: r/malelivingspace and r/femalelivingspace (constant 'does this fit' threads), r/InteriorDesign and r/movingout, Hacker News readers who made storytold/cadcraft and wheresryan22/anatomy trend, and the GitHub discussions of those two repos where people ask for lighter, browser-native spatial tools.", + "business_model": "The free page is the whole product for casual movers and is never paywalled. Airbnb hosts, realtors, and movers pay for Pro: saving multiple properties, true-to-scale furniture dimensions, and branded print-ready posters and PDF exports. That is worth money because a clean floor-plan graphic makes a listing or a moving-day plan look professional and saves them the hours they'd spend in a CAD tool or paying a designer.", + "pricing": [ + { + "tier": "Free", + "price": "$0", + "for": "Anyone planning or rearranging one room", + "includes": "Drag-wall floor plan tracing on a grid, small furniture library (couch, bed, desk, plants, TV), live isometric SVG diorama, the whole plan encoded in a shareable URL, one-click PNG/SVG poster download. No account, ever." + }, + { + "tier": "Pro (founding)", + "price": "$6/mo founding price — early-access list only, nothing charged today", + "for": "Airbnb hosts, realtors, and movers", + "includes": "Save and manage multiple properties, true-to-scale furniture dimensions, branded print-ready floor-plan posters, and PDF exports for listings and moving-day plans." + } + ], + "primary_cta": "Download my diorama", + "launch_channels": [ + { + "channel": "Show HN (news.ycombinator.com)", + "draft": "Show HN: Dollhouse – draw your floor plan, get an isometric diorama you can share as a link\n\nDrag walls onto a grid, drop in furniture (couch, bed, desk, plants, TV), and the page renders a polished isometric SVG of your room live. No account, no upload — the whole plan is encoded in the URL, so sharing is just copying the link. One button downloads a PNG or SVG poster. Everything runs client-side as a single static page.\n\nI built it for the 'will the couch fit along that wall' argument when you sign a lease or rearrange.\n\nI'm also gauging interest in a Pro tier for Airbnb hosts, realtors, and movers (saved properties, true-to-scale dimensions, branded PDF exports) via a GitHub issue form linked on the page. It's an early-access list at a founding price — nothing is charged today.\n\nHappy to answer anything about the isometric SVG rendering or the URL encoding." + }, + { + "channel": "r/malelivingspace (cross-post r/femalelivingspace)", + "draft": "Title: I made a free tool that turns your floor plan into an isometric diorama — built for the 'does the couch fit here' debate\n\nDisclosure: this is my own project.\n\nYou drag walls onto a grid to trace your room, drop in furniture (couch, bed, desk, plants, TV), and it renders a live isometric 'dollhouse view' as an SVG. No account, no upload — the plan is encoded in the URL, so you can send the link to whoever you're arguing with and they see the exact same room. There's one button to download a PNG/SVG poster.\n\nIt's free and runs entirely in your browser. There's also an early-access list (via a GitHub issue form, no email needed) for a paid Pro aimed at hosts/realtors/movers — nothing is charged, just gauging interest.\n\nLink in comments if that's the house rule. Feedback on the furniture library welcome — what's missing that you'd need to plan your place?" + }, + { + "channel": "GitHub Discussions in storytold/cadcraft (replying in threads where people ask about room/floor-plan use cases)", + "draft": "If anyone here wants the opposite end of the spectrum from full CAD — a room layout in under a minute — I built Dollhouse: drag walls onto a grid, drop in furniture, and it renders a live isometric SVG diorama of the room. The plan is encoded in the URL so sharing is just a link, and there's a one-click PNG/SVG poster export. Free, no account, fully client-side, single static page. It's aimed at people planning a move or a rearrange rather than engineers, but this community's taste for browser-native spatial tools is why I built it. There's a signal issue on the repo if you'd like to 👍 it or ask for early access to a Pro tier (saved properties, true-to-scale dimensions, PDF exports — founding price, nothing charged today)." + } + ], + "success_metric": "After 7 days: at least 30 distinct GitHub accounts have either submitted the early-access issue form or 👍'd the signal issue, and at least 3 of the signup comments mention a professional use case (host, realtor, mover) that validates the Pro tier.", + "success_signups": 30, + "kill_metric": "After 7 days: fewer than 5 distinct GitHub accounts have signed up or 👍'd the signal issue across all three channels, meaning the shareable-diorama hook isn't landing even with the exact audience that upvoted cadcraft and anatomy.", + "kill_signups": 5 +} +``` + +