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Show HN: HomeCat – Design your backyard office

https://myhomecat.com
1•dearilos•41m ago
Hey HN! Ilya and Nikita here. We’re building HomeCat, a tool that lets you design a backyard office space - https://myhomecat.com

We 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 will make it code compliant. It's maybe 90% of the way there, since you also have zoning/HOA and other edge cases. But it does figure out most of the details for you. Right now, it's pretty simple: enter your address, what you want to build (i.e. 8x8 backyard office), and it'll create a few concepts for you. If you like one, you can customize it with the chat.

Here's an example of a design that's compliant in SF: https://myhomecat.com/scene/classic-cottage-137134ef

We would love for you to try our tool if you are planning your backyard office. As a bonus to the HN community, we can professionally design one for you for free if you comment what you're looking for.

Happy labor day!

US Military disabled ad tracking on troops' devices after targeted attacks

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/us-military-disabled-ad-tracking-on-troops-devices-following-re...
2•jethronethro•11s ago•0 comments

Decoherence: A card game for two based on quantum physics

https://decoherance.vaguespac.es/
1•thebigship•2m ago•0 comments

Scaling Engineering: Ownership over Hiring

https://greenido.dev/2026/06/11/what-changes-at-20-50-and-200-engineers/
1•fagnerbrack•4m ago•0 comments

Free WhatsApp abandoned cart recovery for WooCommerce

https://wordpress.org/plugins/6rsh-messaging-notifications/
1•sixrsh•4m ago•0 comments

Botsitting: The Unpaid Labour Behind Every AI Productivity Claim

https://smarterarticles.co.uk/botsitting-the-unpaid-labour-behind-every-ai-productivity-claim
1•dxs•5m ago•0 comments

Code at the Speed of Understanding

https://dennisy.me/notes/code-at-the-speed-of-my-understanding
1•dennisy•6m ago•0 comments

Secret Collusion Among AI Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07510
2•phaseonebig•7m ago•0 comments

Amy – high performance fixed-point music synthesizer library

https://github.com/shorepine/amy
1•anigbrowl•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animating code snippets from first principles

1•rahulrav•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Expose - a self-hosted tunneling tool like ngrok/localtunnel(Golang)

https://github.com/kernelshard/expose
1•samiulsk•9m ago•0 comments

Alzheimer's treatment is advancing rapidly

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/501710/alzheimers-disease-dementia-test-treatment-medication-in...
1•dabinat•10m ago•1 comments

The Foundations of Modern AI: Generalization, Data Selection, and Epiplexity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKoJJxjUfdw
1•E-Reverance•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you know a prompt is "complex" for an AI model?

1•faryadz•10m ago•0 comments

CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year

https://www.olafalders.com/2026/09/04/cpan-uploads-up-50-percent-year-over-year/
1•Amorymeltzer•12m ago•0 comments

Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

https://lax-skyline.parcelscope.net/
11•rustywasm•12m ago•3 comments

"Twenty years of brand building froze in time": How coding agents select tools

https://thenewstack.io/coding-agents-tool-choice/
2•theanonymousone•12m ago•0 comments

The Context Engine

https://productnow.ai/blogs/the-context-engine
1•kadhirvelm•12m ago•1 comments

Agentic Coding in the Wild

https://kstark007.github.io/blog/agentic-coding-in-the-wild/
1•maknee•13m ago•0 comments

All 32 NFL stadiums ranked by total game day cost

https://visityourteam.com/nfl/rankings/game-day-costs
1•brambleworks•25m ago•0 comments

Volkswagen to convert German car plant to produce Israeli defense equipment

https://www.timesofisrael.com/volkswagen-to-convert-german-car-plant-to-produce-israeli-defense-e...
11•Betelbuddy•26m ago•1 comments

Senate Considers Letting Contractors Hack Computers for Military

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-03/senate-considers-allowing-contractors-to-condu...
2•_____k•26m ago•0 comments

OSB Runs locally on Mobile Devices, now we are Fundraising

https://whydonate.com/fundraising/seeking-startup-funding
1•opensb•28m ago•1 comments

The Appeal

https://sunilpai.dev/posts/the-appeal/
1•tosh•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MobileCode – OpenCode with React Native Previews

https://github.com/hsandhu/mobilecode
2•rsandhu•28m ago•0 comments

Does diet and activity lead to difference in energy expenditure in obese women?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10290800/
1•paulpauper•31m ago•0 comments

Hail, Orchestrator

https://webtwoboomer.com/hail-orchestrator-655001b91bc2
1•bendtheblock•31m ago•1 comments

California Forever meets further setbacks

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/business/economy/california-forever-shipyard-newsom.html
1•paulpauper•35m ago•0 comments

What Is VOD? Video on Demand Streaming and Delivery Explained

https://www.red5.net/blog/what-is-vod/
1•mondainx•35m ago•0 comments

Tech websites remove articles after failing to verify journalists exist

https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/tech-websites-remove-articles-after-failing-to-verify-journalists...
2•bookofjoe•35m ago•0 comments

Taking on Tyler's Challenge

https://www.ciaranmarshall.co.uk/p/taking-on-tylers-challenge
1•paulpauper•35m ago•0 comments