Building an AI Room Design Tool: 4 Things That Took Way Too Long

I've been heads-down for the last few months on Deroom AI , an AI room design tool that turns a single photo of your real room into a photorealistic redesign in 30 seconds. The 0→1 build was way harder than I expected and along the way I changed my mind about a bunch of things. These are the four that cost me the most time. 1. Generic image generation is the wrong primitive The first version was a thin wrapper around a stable-diffusion checkpoint with a prompt template. It produced beautiful kit