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Today we shipped the biggest update yet to Free Iran — expanding it from a 4-page photography showcase into a comprehensive 10-section cultural platform celebrating Persian heritage and the Iranian freedom movement.

Five New Content Pages

Poetry — A curated collection featuring 8 legendary Persian poets spanning over 1,000 years: Ferdowsi, Rumi, Hafez, Omar Khayyam, Sa'di, Attar, Forough Farrokhzad, and Sohrab Sepehri. Each poet has a biography and poems displayed in both original Farsi and English translation, with filtering by poet.

Notable Iranians — A tribute to 20+ Iranian scientists, mathematicians, physicians, philosophers, and innovators — from Avicenna and Kharazmi to Maryam Mirzakhani and Anousheh Ansari. Deliberately focused on intellectual achievement, not entertainment or politics.

Persian Calendar & Holidays — A Solar Hijri calendar display with all 12 Persian months, the current Persian date, a live Nowruz countdown timer, and 7 major holidays including Nowruz, Chaharshanbe Suri, Sizdah Bedar, Tirgan, Mehregan, Yalda Night, and Sadeh.

Persian Culture — 8 deep-dive sections covering Architecture, Music, Carpet Weaving, Calligraphy, Miniature Painting, Persian Gardens, Zoroastrian Traditions, and Persian Hospitality (Tarof), with 24 highlighted topics.

Persian Cuisine — 22 traditional dishes across 6 categories (Rice, Stews, Kebabs, Soups, Desserts, Drinks) with bilingual names, ingredients, and cultural significance. From Tahdig to Fesenjan to Bastani.

Platform-Wide Features

Dark/Light/System Theme Toggle — A three-mode theme switcher in the header that remembers your preference across visits.

English/Farsi Language Toggle — Every navigation label, button, and UI element switches between English and Farsi with one click.

Live Iran Time — A real-time clock showing the current time in Tehran, displayed in the header.

Newsletter Signup — An email collection form in the footer, backed by a PostgreSQL database with duplicate detection.

Smart Navigation Redesign — With 10 tabs, we split the nav into 5 primary tabs shown inline plus a "More" dropdown for the remaining 5, keeping it clean on all screen sizes. The dropdown intelligently shows the active page name when you're in one of those sections. Mobile still gets a full hamburger menu with all 10 items.

SEO and Discoverability

All 5 new pages were wired into the sitemap with hreflang tags, Open Graph meta tags for social sharing, the programmatic SEO engine, and the llms.txt file for AI discoverability. The site now targets a much broader set of Persian heritage and culture keywords — from Persian poetry and Rumi quotes to Solar Hijri calendar, traditional Iranian food, and notable Iranian scientists.

What Started as 4 Pages Is Now a Cultural Platform

This has been a two-day build. On day 1, we built the Poetry, Notable Iranians, and Calendar pages. On day 2, we finished the Culture and Cuisine pages and added all the platform-wide features. You can read the full build diary in our earlier posts:

• Day 1: Building Free Iran — Poetry, Notable Iranians, and the Persian Calendar
• Day 2: Building Free Iran — Culture, Cuisine, and Platform Polish

Free Iran started as a photography showcase with Art, Words, History, and Flags. With today's update, it's grown into something much larger — a bilingual cultural resource covering the poetry, science, traditions, food, and calendar that define Persian identity across millennia.

Explore everything at free-iran.app. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

Day 2 of expanding Free Iran. Yesterday we built the Poetry, Notable Iranians, and Calendar pages. Today we're finishing the remaining content and adding the platform-wide features that tie everything together.

Persian Culture Page

The Culture page covers 8 deep-dive sections — Architecture, Music, Carpet Weaving, Calligraphy, Miniature Painting, Persian Gardens, Zoroastrian Traditions, and Persian Hospitality (Tarof). Each section has multiple subtopics, 24 in total. This is probably the densest page on the site — there's a lot to say about a civilization that's been shaping art, science, and philosophy for thousands of years.

Persian Cuisine Page

The Cuisine page features 22 traditional dishes across 6 categories: Rice Dishes, Stews, Kebabs, Soups, Desserts, and Drinks. Every dish has bilingual names (English and Farsi), ingredients, and cultural context. From Tahdig and Ghormeh Sabzi to Fesenjan and Bastani — this is a proper introduction to one of the world's great culinary traditions.

Platform-Wide Features

With the content pages done, the rest of the day went into features that span the entire site:

• Dark/Light/System Theme Toggle — A three-mode switcher in the header that persists your preference across visits.
• English/Farsi Language Toggle — One click switches every label, button, and UI element between English and Farsi.
• Live Iran Time — Real-time clock showing the current time in Tehran, always visible in the header.
• Newsletter Signup — Email collection form in the footer, backed by PostgreSQL with duplicate detection.
• Smart Navigation Redesign — 10 tabs split into 5 primary inline tabs plus a "More" dropdown for the rest. The dropdown shows the active page name when you're in one of those sections. Mobile gets a full hamburger menu with all 10 items.

SEO Wiring

All 5 new pages — Poetry, Notable Iranians, Calendar, Culture, and Cuisine — were wired into the sitemap with hreflang tags, Open Graph meta tags, the programmatic SEO engine, and the llms.txt file for AI discoverability.

Everything goes live tomorrow. Two days of building, and Free Iran is about to go from 4 pages to 10.

Follow the progress at free-iran.app. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

We're starting a major expansion of Free Iran. The site currently has 4 pages — Art, Words, History, and Flags. By the time we're done, it'll have 10. Today is day 1, and we're building three of the five new content pages.

Poetry Page

The Poetry page is a curated collection featuring 8 legendary Persian poets spanning over 1,000 years — Ferdowsi, Rumi, Hafez, Omar Khayyam, Sa'di, Attar, Forough Farrokhzad, and Sohrab Sepehri. Each poet gets a biography and poems displayed in both original Farsi and English translation. There's filtering by poet so you can dive deep into any one voice or browse across all of them.

Persian poetry isn't just literature — it's the backbone of the culture. These are the voices that shaped how Iranians think about love, justice, fate, and freedom. Putting them in one place, bilingual, felt essential.

Notable Iranians Page

The Notable Iranians page is a tribute to 20+ Iranian scientists, mathematicians, physicians, philosophers, and innovators. From Avicenna and Kharazmi to Maryam Mirzakhani and Anousheh Ansari. We deliberately focused on intellectual achievement — not entertainment, not politics. These are the people who advanced human knowledge, and many of them don't get the recognition they deserve outside of Iran.

Persian Calendar & Holidays Page

The Calendar page displays the Solar Hijri calendar with all 12 Persian months, the current Persian date, and a live Nowruz countdown timer. It also covers 7 major holidays — Nowruz, Chaharshanbe Suri, Sizdah Bedar, Tirgan, Mehregan, Yalda Night, and Sadeh — each with history and traditions explained.

The Solar Hijri calendar is one of the most accurate calendars in the world, and it's still the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. Building a proper digital version of it with holiday context felt like a gap worth filling.

What's Next

Tomorrow we'll build the Culture and Cuisine pages, add the dark/light theme toggle, the English/Farsi language switcher, live Tehran time display, and redesign the navigation to handle 10 sections cleanly. Then everything goes live.

Follow the build at free-iran.app. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

We've shipped two significant updates to Style2AI today — both aimed at giving users more focused tools and a smoother creative workflow.

Video Gets Its Own Page

Until now, video features like Cine-Walk were accessible through the image generation options. That made sense early on, but as we added more video presets — walkthroughs, drone flyovers, orbit animations, and cinematic sequences — it became clear that video deserved its own dedicated space.

The new video page in Style2AI brings all video generation tools together in one place. You can now browse all available video presets, configure settings, and generate cinematic walkthroughs and animations without navigating through image options first. It's faster, cleaner, and easier to find what you need.

Board Page — Presets and Templates

The Board page has been upgraded with presets and ready-made templates, making it significantly easier to create and generate professional mood boards. Instead of starting from a blank canvas every time, you can now pick from curated templates designed for common use cases — residential interiors, commercial spaces, landscape concepts, material palettes, and more.

Each template comes with pre-configured layouts and placeholders, so you can drop in your references, generate AI visuals, and assemble a polished mood board in a fraction of the time it used to take.

Building a Better Workflow

Both updates are part of our ongoing effort to make Style2AI feel less like a collection of features and more like a complete design workflow. Dedicated pages for video and improved board tools mean fewer clicks, less friction, and more time spent on actual design work.

Try the new video page and board presets at style2ai.com. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

We've added two major new pages to Free Iran today — both dedicated to preserving and presenting the depth of Persian history.

Historical Timeline

The new timeline page traces 7,000 years of Persian civilization — from the dawn of Elam to the dream of a free Iran. It covers the rise of the Elamite kingdom, the founding of the Achaemenid Empire by Cyrus the Great, the Parthian and Sassanid eras, the Islamic conquest and its aftermath, the Safavid renaissance, the Constitutional Revolution, the Pahlavi modernization, and the ongoing struggle for freedom and secular democracy.

Each era is presented with historical context, key events, and cultural milestones — making Iran's continuous civilizational story accessible to anyone, in both English and Persian.

Flags of Iran Through the Ages

The flags page presents a visual journey through the banners and standards that have represented Iran across millennia — from the Bronze Age Shahdad Standard, one of the oldest known flags in human history, through the Derafsh Kaviani of Sassanid Persia, to the Lion and Sun that became the enduring symbol of Iranian sovereignty.

Each flag is shown with its historical period, symbolism, and significance. The page traces how Iran's national symbols evolved through empires, revolutions, and cultural shifts — and why the Lion and Sun remains the symbol of a free Iran.

Why This Matters

Understanding where we come from is essential to knowing where we're going. These pages are part of Free Iran's mission to connect 7,000 years of civilizational heritage with the movement for freedom — ensuring that the history of one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations is accessible, accurate, and preserved for future generations.

Explore the full timeline and flag history at free-iran.app. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

We've added a new page to Free Iran — a growing collection of pure Persian words that were displaced by Arabic loanwords during centuries of cultural imposition.

Why Words Matter

Language is the foundation of identity. After the Arab invasion of Persia in the 7th century, thousands of Persian words were gradually replaced by Arabic equivalents — not through natural linguistic evolution, but through systematic cultural pressure. Over time, many Iranians lost touch with the original Persian words their ancestors used for centuries.

The Words page is an effort to reverse that loss. It presents pure Persian words alongside their commonly used Arabic replacements, helping speakers rediscover the richness of their own language.

Every Word Reclaimed Is a Step Toward Freedom

Reclaiming language isn't just an academic exercise — it's an act of cultural resistance. When you choose to say farhang instead of an imposed alternative, you're reconnecting with a civilizational thread that stretches back thousands of years. Each word carries the weight of history, identity, and the quiet defiance of a culture that refused to disappear.

The collection is bilingual and will continue to grow as we research and verify more entries. It's designed to be a practical resource — something people can reference in daily life to enrich their Persian vocabulary with its original roots.

Explore the Words page at free-iran.app. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

We're excited to announce the launch of Dusk for X — a free Chrome extension built by Nth Craft that completely transforms your X (Twitter) experience.

If you've ever wished X had a dark mode that actually looked good, or wanted to swap out the default font, adjust tweet widths, or hide UI elements you don't use — Dusk for X is for you.

What It Does

Dusk for X lets you customize the visual appearance of X with a clean settings panel. Here's what you can control:

• Themes — Choose from multiple color modes including Dim, Forest Green, Hacker Orange, Lavender, and more.
• Fonts — Swap the default font for something you prefer.
• Tweet Width — Adjust how wide tweets appear on your screen.
• UI Toggles — Show or hide parts of the interface to keep things minimal.

Everything is applied through clean CSS overrides — the extension doesn't read, modify, or interact with any of your content or data on the page.

Privacy First

Dusk for X collects absolutely no data. No analytics, no tracking, no cookies, no third-party services. All your preferences are stored locally on your device using Chrome's built-in storage API. Nothing ever leaves your browser. You can read the full privacy policy here.

Get It Now

Dusk for X is available for free on the Chrome Web Store. Install it, pick a theme, and make X yours.

Built by Nth Craft. Follow us on X (@nimanikroo) for updates.

We started Nth Craft with one product and one idea — that AI could make professional-grade design accessible to everyone. Less than six months later, we have five live products across five different industries. This feels like a good moment to step back and look at what we've built and where each product is headed.

Style2AI — AI Design for Architecture and Construction

Style2AI is our flagship product. It's an AI-powered design platform built specifically for architects, interior designers, landscape architects, engineers, and contractors. Upload a sketch, a 3D model, or just describe what you want — and get photorealistic renders, cinematic walkthrough videos, technical elevations, construction diagrams, cost estimates, and material schedules. Over 100 design styles, 8 generation modes, 18 diagram types, 24 video presets, a collaborative canvas, and export to PDF, Word, Excel, and DXF. It's the tool we wished existed when we were doing architecture work ourselves.

StageMyInterior — Virtual Home Staging

StageMyInterior was our first product, and it's still going strong. Upload a photo of any room — empty or furnished — and the AI generates a professionally staged version in your chosen design style. Built for real estate agents who need listing photos staged fast, homeowners exploring renovation ideas, and interior designers looking for quick concept visualization. What used to cost thousands of dollars and take days now takes seconds.

AroosAI — AI Bridal Styling

AroosAI is currently on our waitlist. It's an AI-powered bridal styling platform that helps brides visualize different looks before committing — hairstyles, makeup, dresses, and accessories. Upload a photo of yourself and see how you'd look in different bridal styles. The wedding industry is massive, deeply personal, and underserved by technology. We think AI can help brides make more confident decisions and enjoy the planning process more.

Free Iran — Persian Cultural Preservation

Free Iran is a passion project and a cultural mission. It's a bilingual platform celebrating 7,000 years of Persian heritage — from poetry and notable Iranians to the Solar Hijri calendar, cuisine, culture, historical timelines, and the flags of Iran. Ten content sections, all available in both English and Farsi. It's also a platform for the Iranian freedom movement, connecting civilizational heritage with the ongoing struggle for democracy and human rights.

Dusk for X — A Better Twitter Experience

Dusk for X is a free Chrome extension that lets you customize how X (Twitter) looks. Themes, fonts, tweet widths, UI toggles — all applied through clean CSS overrides with zero data collection. It's a small product but it scratches an itch that a lot of people share: wanting X to look and feel the way you want it to.

Different Markets, Same Philosophy

Each of these products addresses a different market with a different need. But they all share the same underlying philosophy: take something that's expensive, slow, or inaccessible, and use AI to make it fast, affordable, and available to everyone. Whether that's architectural visualization, home staging, bridal styling, cultural preservation, or just making a website look better — the pattern is the same.

We're a small team building fast. If any of these products solve a problem you have, we'd love to hear from you.

Explore everything at nthcraft.com. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

One of the most time-consuming parts of any design project isn't the design itself — it's assembling the presentation. Mood boards, material palettes, concept layouts, client decks. Architects and designers spend hours arranging references, generating visuals, and formatting everything into something presentable. We wanted to make that faster.

Board Presets and Templates

The Board page in Style2AI now comes with presets and ready-made templates for common design scenarios. Residential interiors, commercial spaces, landscape concepts, material palettes — each template gives you a pre-configured layout with placeholders for images, text, and generated visuals. Drop in your references, generate what you need with AI, and you've got a polished mood board in minutes instead of hours.

The templates are designed by people who actually do this work. They're not generic grid layouts — they're structured around how design professionals actually present concepts to clients. Material call-outs in the right places. Room for annotations. Space for before-and-after comparisons.

Expanded Schedules and Lists

We've also expanded the schedule and list capabilities to 18 types. FF&E schedules, material schedules, shopping lists, cost estimates, and more. Each one can be generated from your design and exported directly to PDF, Word, or Excel. No more manually building spreadsheets from your renders — the system extracts what it sees in the design and organizes it into structured documents.

From Generation Tool to Design Workflow

Style2AI started as a way to generate architectural renders from sketches. With board presets, presentation templates, expanded schedules, and multi-format export, it's evolving into something bigger — a complete design workflow platform. The goal is simple: everything between your first sketch and your client presentation should be faster, easier, and better-looking.

We're not done. There's a lot more coming — more templates, more schedule types, and deeper integration with the tools architects already use. But the foundation for a real workflow platform is now in place.

Try the new board presets at style2ai.com. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

It's been one week since Style2AI went live on Product Hunt, and the response has been genuinely encouraging. Real architects, real interior designers, real contractors — using the platform and telling us what they think. That feedback is already shaping what we build next.

Team Workspaces

The most common request from design firms was team collaboration. So we shipped it. Team workspaces let you invite colleagues, share projects, and manage access controls. Principals can set permissions for who can view, edit, or export. Everything stays organized under one account, with separate project spaces for different clients.

Privacy and Confidentiality

Architecture firms handle confidential projects — unreleased buildings, competition entries, client NDAs. We've made privacy a core feature, not an afterthought. Your projects are never used for model training. Workspaces are siloed — one team's data is completely isolated from another's. The infrastructure is designed to be NDA-compliant from the start.

All paid plans include commercial licensing, meaning you own full rights to everything you generate. Use it in client presentations, publications, marketing materials — it's yours.

What Users Are Telling Us

The feedback patterns are clear. People love the generation quality but want better onboarding — especially for the more advanced features like diagrams and video. Several users asked for more preset templates to get started faster. And there's strong demand for dedicated pages for specific features rather than everything living in one generation interface.

We're listening. Coming soon: a dedicated video page, board presets and templates, improved onboarding flows, and more industry-specific styles based on what users are actually requesting.

The Road Ahead

Launching is just the beginning. The real work is what comes after — iterating based on how people actually use the product, not just how we imagined they would. Every week, we're shipping improvements based on real feedback from real professionals.

Try Style2AI and let us know what you think. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

We're thrilled to announce that Style2AI — our AI-powered design assistant for the AEC industry — is officially live on Product Hunt.

What Is Style2AI?

Style2AI is a comprehensive AI design platform built for architects, interior designers, landscape architects, engineers, contractors, and real estate professionals. Think of it as a junior designer that can generate professional-grade visuals and documentation in seconds.

Upload a sketch, a 3D model, a CAD screenshot, or just describe what you want in plain text — and Style2AI generates photorealistic renders, cinematic walkthrough videos, technical elevations, construction diagrams, material schedules, and cost estimates.

Over 100 Features

Style2AI isn't just a rendering tool. It covers the full design workflow:

• 8 generation modes — text-to-image, sketch-to-render, 3D model import, panorama, elevation, diagram, schedule, and video.
• 100+ design styles — 35 exterior, 20 interior, and 12 landscape style variants.
• 18 diagram types — massing studies, circulation diagrams, structural systems, MEP layouts, and more.
• 24 video presets — walkthroughs, drone flyovers, orbit animations.
• Canvas whiteboard — 14 collaborative design tools for team workflows.
• Multi-format export — PDF, Word, Excel, and DXF.

Built for Professionals

Style2AI integrates with the tools AEC professionals already use — Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, FBX, and IFC. All paid plans include commercial licensing and full ownership of every asset you generate.

Privacy is built in from the ground up. Style2AI runs on a private-by-default model — your project data is never used for training. Workspaces are siloed with team access controls, and the infrastructure is NDA-compliant for confidential projects.

Try It Free

Style2AI offers a free trial with 150 credits to get started. Paid plans start at $14.99/month.

Check out Style2AI and support us on Product Hunt. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

From the very beginning, we knew that Style2AI would only matter if it fit into the workflows architects and designers already have. Nobody wants to learn a new tool from scratch or rebuild their models in a different format. So we've spent the last few weeks making sure Style2AI speaks the same language as the tools professionals already use every day.

Direct Model Import

Style2AI now supports direct import from the three most widely used design tools in the AEC industry: Revit (.rvt), SketchUp (.skp), and Rhino (.3dm). We also support .fbx and .ifc for broader compatibility. Drop your model file into Style2AI, and the system reads the geometry, identifies building elements — walls, floors, roofs, glazing, landscape — and applies materials and styles intelligently. No manual material assignment. No lighting setup. No render engine configuration.

The result is a presentation-quality render, video, elevation, or diagram generated directly from your working model. The same file you're already using in your design process becomes the input for everything Style2AI can do.

Team Workspaces

We've also launched team workspaces with access controls designed for professional firms. Invite your team, organize projects by client, and set permissions for who can view, edit, or export. Everything is isolated — one team's workspace is completely separate from another's. This matters when you're handling confidential projects, competition entries, or anything under NDA.

Privacy by Default

Your project data is never used for model training. Period. Workspaces are siloed with enterprise-grade access controls. The infrastructure is designed to be NDA-compliant from day one. When firms trust you with their unreleased projects, you don't cut corners on privacy.

Getting Ready for Launch

With professional workflow integration, team collaboration, and privacy controls in place, Style2AI is ready for its public debut. We're planning our Product Hunt launch for next week. If you've been following the build, this is the moment where months of work become a real product that anyone can try.

Try it at style2ai.com. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

It's been one week since we opened Style2AI to its first users, and the experience of watching real people use something you built is equal parts thrilling and humbling. Some things worked exactly as we hoped. Others surprised us completely.

Sketch-to-Render Is the Star

The most used feature by far is sketch-to-render. People upload a pencil drawing and see it transformed into a photorealistic render, and the reaction is always the same — a moment of genuine delight. It turns out that going from a rough idea on paper to a polished visual in seconds is exactly the kind of magic that makes people want to keep using a tool.

Video Got the Biggest Reactions

While sketch-to-render is the most used feature, video generation got the strongest emotional reactions. Seeing your design come to life as a cinematic walkthrough — with camera movement, lighting changes, and atmospheric depth — is a fundamentally different experience from looking at a static image. Several users told us it was the moment they realized this was something genuinely new.

Camera Controls Needed Work

One piece of feedback came up repeatedly: users wanted more control over camera settings in their renders and videos. So we added more options. Style2AI now offers 7 camera styles, 4 lens types, 13 camera angles, and 4 depth-of-field settings. Whether you want a tight close-up with shallow focus or a wide establishing shot with everything sharp, you can dial it in.

Unexpected Interest from Engineers

We built the diagram tools primarily for architects, but some of the strongest interest has come from structural engineers and contractors. The massing studies, structural system diagrams, and MEP layouts are pulling in users we didn't specifically target. It makes sense in retrospect — these professionals need visual communication tools just as much as architects do, and they have even fewer options.

Building in Public Means Listening Fast

The biggest lesson from week one is that building in public isn't just about sharing your progress — it's about being ready to change direction based on what real people actually need. We shipped camera controls in two days because users asked for them. Interior designers are asking for more styles, so that's next. The roadmap isn't set in stone. It's a conversation.

Try Style2AI and tell us what you think. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

Three months ago, we wrote our first line of code for Style2AI. Today, it's live. Real people can sign up, generate designs, and tell us what they think. This is the soft launch — not the big public debut yet, but the moment where the product meets reality.

What's in the Product

Style2AI launches with a feature set that, honestly, is more comprehensive than we originally planned for V1:

• 8 generation modes — text-to-image, sketch-to-render, 3D model import, panorama, elevation, diagram, schedule, and video
• 100+ design styles — 35 exterior, 20 interior, 12 landscape, plus artistic and conceptual styles
• 18 diagram types — massing, circulation, structural, MEP, zoning, site analysis, material takeoffs, and more
• 24 video presets — walkthroughs, drone flyovers, orbit animations, cinematic sequences
• Canvas whiteboard — 14 collaborative tools for team design sessions
• Cost estimation — AI-powered cost estimates and material schedules from your designs
• Multi-format export — PDF, Word, Excel, and DXF

How to Try It

Every new account starts with a free trial — 150 credits to explore everything the platform can do. That's enough to generate dozens of renders, a few videos, and a stack of diagrams. If you want more, paid plans start at $14.99/month with commercial licensing included on all tiers.

Privacy First

Your projects stay yours. We don't use your designs, models, or generated outputs for training. Workspaces are private by default. Commercial licensing is included on all paid plans, meaning you own full rights to everything you create. For firms handling confidential projects, the infrastructure is designed to be NDA-compliant from the start.

What This Moment Means

Building something from nothing to a working product in three months is intense. There were weeks where the whole thing felt impossible — where a feature that worked perfectly on Tuesday broke completely on Wednesday. But here we are. A real product, with real capabilities, that real professionals can use to do real work.

The soft launch is about learning. We want to see how people actually use the product, what surprises them, what frustrates them, and what they wish existed. That feedback will shape everything we build next as we prepare for the full public launch in January.

Try it at style2ai.com. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

When we started building Style2AI just a few weeks ago, we had a clear vision — but the speed of progress has exceeded our expectations.

Better Models, Better Results

We've integrated upgraded AI models and an improved rendering pipeline into Style2AI, and the results speak for themselves. Architectural renders are sharper, more photorealistic, and more consistent with real-world materials and lighting conditions.

The new models have been particularly impressive for exterior and landscape renders — the level of detail in vegetation, glass reflections, and atmospheric lighting is a significant step up from what was available even a few months ago. Interior design outputs have also improved dramatically, handling fabric textures, wood grains, and spatial depth with remarkable accuracy.

What This Means for Users

For architects and designers using Style2AI, this translates to:

• Higher fidelity renders — outputs that are closer to final presentation quality straight out of generation.
• Faster iteration — improved model performance means shorter wait times per render.
• More accurate styles — design style presets now produce more faithful interpretations across all 100+ styles.

We're continuing to refine and test new model combinations as we push toward the public launch in January.

Follow the progress at style2ai.com. Built by Nth Craft. Updates on X (@nimanikroo).

When we set out to build Style2AI, we knew it couldn't just be a render tool. Architects and designers don't work in isolation — they collaborate with teams, present to clients, estimate costs, and produce documentation. If Style2AI was going to be genuinely useful in a professional setting, it needed to support the full workflow, not just the pretty-picture part.

Canvas Whiteboard

The canvas is a collaborative design space with 14 tools for sketching, annotating, organizing, and presenting. Think of it as a digital whiteboard purpose-built for design teams. You can arrange generated renders, diagrams, and reference images on a shared board. Add notes, draw over designs, organize by project phase. Multiple team members can work on the same canvas.

It's also the foundation for mood board creation. Pull in AI-generated visuals, reference photos, material samples, and text annotations — and arrange them into client-ready presentations without leaving the platform.

AI-Powered Cost Estimation

This is the feature that surprised us the most during development. Feed Style2AI a design — a render, a sketch, a 3D model — and it generates cost estimates and material schedules. It identifies building elements, estimates quantities, and produces organized breakdowns by category. Is it as accurate as a professional quantity surveyor? No. But for early-stage budgeting — the "is this project even feasible?" phase — it's remarkably useful.

Export Everything

Generated a beautiful render? Export to PDF for your presentation deck. Created a material schedule? Export to Excel for your budget spreadsheet. Wrote up design specifications? Export to Word. Need to bring something into CAD? Export to DXF. The goal is simple: whatever you create in Style2AI should be usable in the tools and formats your clients and collaborators expect.

100+ Styles and Counting

The style library has officially crossed 100. We're now at 35 exterior styles, 20 interior, 12 landscape, plus a growing collection of artistic and conceptual variants. Every style is tuned specifically for architectural output — correct proportions, realistic materials, appropriate vegetation and context.

Soft Launch in Two Weeks

With canvas, cost estimation, exports, and 100+ styles, the feature set for soft launch is essentially complete. We're spending the next two weeks on polish, performance optimization, and onboarding flow. The soft launch opens before the end of December, with the full public launch planned for January.

Follow the build at style2ai.com. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

This is the update I've been most excited to write. Style2AI can now generate videos from your designs. Not slideshows. Not animated transitions between static images. Actual cinematic video — with camera movement, lighting progression, atmospheric depth, and the kind of production quality that used to require a dedicated visualization studio and a week of render time.

24 Video Presets

We've launched with 24 video presets organized around the most common use cases in architectural presentation:

• Architectural walkthroughs — move through interior spaces as if you're walking through the finished building
• Drone flyovers — aerial perspectives that show the building in its site context
• Orbit animations — smooth 360-degree rotations around the exterior
• Cinematic sequences — dramatic reveals with dynamic camera work and atmospheric lighting

Each preset is tuned for architectural content — the camera moves at speeds that make sense for buildings, the lighting shifts realistically, and the composition follows principles that architectural photographers actually use.

The Moment It Clicks

There's a specific moment when you use this feature for the first time. You upload a sketch — maybe a rough pencil drawing of a house you're designing — and ten seconds later, you're watching a cinematic walkthrough of that design as if it were already built. The camera glides through the front entrance, moves through the living space, and out to the garden. Your sketch, brought to life.

That moment is what Style2AI is about. Not just making things look pretty, but giving architects and designers the ability to see and share their vision in ways that were previously impossible without enormous time and budget.

Panorama Mode

Alongside video, we've also added panorama mode for generating 360-degree views of your designs. These are perfect for VR presentations or immersive client experiences. Stand in the middle of your designed space and look in every direction.

What This Changes

Video fundamentally changes how architects present to clients. A static render is impressive. A cinematic walkthrough is emotional. Clients don't just see the design — they feel it. They understand spatial relationships, lighting quality, material textures, and the flow of movement through spaces in a way that no still image can communicate.

We're incredibly proud of this feature. It's the one that makes people say "I can't believe this is possible."

Try video generation at style2ai.com. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

After months of working on StageMyInterior and learning what professionals in the design space actually need, we've decided to build something bigger.

Why Style2AI?

StageMyInterior taught us a lot about how real estate professionals, interior designers, and homeowners use AI-generated visuals. But we kept hearing the same feedback: people wanted more — more styles, more output types, more control, and support for architecture and landscape design, not just interiors.

So we're building Style2AI — a comprehensive AI design platform that goes beyond rendering. We're planning support for technical drawings, diagrams, cost estimates, video walkthroughs, and full integration with tools like Revit, SketchUp, and Rhino.

What's Next

We're in the early stages right now — laying the foundation, testing model pipelines, and designing the UX. The goal is to have a working product ready for a public launch in early 2026.

We'll share progress updates here and on X (@nimanikroo). Built by Nth Craft.

The renders were always the flashy part. But the thing that's going to make Style2AI actually useful in a professional setting is everything else — the technical outputs that architects and engineers need every day but hate spending hours producing manually.

Elevation Generation

Elevation mode is live. Feed Style2AI a 3D model, a sketch, or even a text description, and it generates clean architectural elevations — front, side, rear — with proper proportioning, window placements, and material callouts. These aren't artistic interpretations. They're technical drawings that you can hand to a contractor or include in a planning submission.

The system understands scale relationships, so a two-story building with standard floor-to-ceiling heights actually looks like a two-story building. Window-to-wall ratios stay reasonable. Roof pitches follow the style you've selected. It's the kind of thing that sounds obvious, but general AI tools get spectacularly wrong — windows floating in midair, doors that are 4 feet tall, roofs that defy physics.

18 Diagram Types

This is where it gets genuinely interesting for engineers and contractors. Style2AI now supports 18 diagram types:

• Massing studies — volumetric analysis of building form and site relationships
• Circulation diagrams — pedestrian flow, vehicular access, entry sequences
• Structural systems — load-bearing elements, column grids, beam layouts
• MEP layouts — mechanical, electrical, and plumbing routing
• Zoning analysis — setbacks, height limits, FAR calculations
• Site analysis — sun paths, wind patterns, topography
• Material takeoffs — quantity estimates organized by CSI division

And eleven more. Each diagram type has its own visual language — color coding, line weights, hatching patterns — that follows industry conventions. An MEP diagram looks like an MEP diagram, not an abstract art piece.

Why This Matters

There are plenty of tools that can make a building look pretty. There are very few that can take a design concept and generate the technical documentation that actually gets a building built. That's the space Style2AI is moving into — not just visualization, but the full design workflow from concept sketch to construction document.

We're not trying to replace Revit or AutoCAD. We're trying to make the first 80% of any design task — the part where you're exploring, iterating, and communicating ideas — dramatically faster.

Coming Up

Video generation is the next big milestone. We're working on walkthrough animations, drone flyover simulations, and cinematic sequences. The goal is to have that ready before the soft launch in December.

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We've shipped two important updates to StageMyInterior this month that we're really happy about.

Simpler Checkout

The previous checkout process had too many steps. We've stripped it down — fewer clicks, clearer pricing, and a faster path from selecting a plan to generating your first staged image. Whether you're a first-time user or coming back for more credits, the experience is now much smoother.

Better AI, Better Results

We've upgraded the underlying AI model powering StageMyInterior. The new model produces more realistic furniture placement, better lighting consistency, and more natural-looking textures across all design styles.

Specific improvements include:

• More accurate furniture scaling — objects now look proportionally correct relative to room dimensions.
• Improved lighting — natural light, ambient light, and shadows are more consistent and realistic.
• Better texture detail — fabrics, wood, marble, and other materials render with finer detail.

These changes apply to all existing design styles — no action needed from users. Just generate as usual and enjoy the better results.

Try it out at stagemyinterior.com. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

Big progress week on Style2AI. Two new generation modes are live in the dev build, and the style library just crossed 50.

Text-to-Image for Architecture

You can now describe a building in plain text and get a photorealistic render back. "A three-story mixed-use building with ground-floor retail, brick facade, and a rooftop garden in a Scandinavian Modern style." That works. The system parses architectural intent — building type, program, materials, style — and generates accordingly.

The key difference between this and typing the same prompt into Midjourney is specificity. Style2AI's text-to-image mode understands architectural terminology. "Curtain wall" means a specific thing. "Butterfly roof" means a specific thing. "Clerestory windows" means a specific thing. General AI tools guess at these terms and usually get them wrong. Style2AI knows what they are.

Is it perfect? No. Complex mixed-use programs with detailed spatial requirements still need refinement. But for concept exploration — generating 10 directions for a client meeting in 5 minutes instead of spending a day on one — it's already transformative.

3D Model Import

This is the one architects have been asking about since we first mentioned Style2AI. You can now upload a 3D model — from SketchUp, Revit, or Rhino — and Style2AI will render it in any of the 50+ available styles. No material assignment needed. No lighting setup. No render engine configuration. Just drop in the model, pick a style, and get a presentation-quality render.

The system reads the model geometry, identifies building elements (walls, floors, roofs, glazing), and applies materials intelligently. A wall gets wall materials. Glass gets glass treatment. The ground plane gets appropriate landscaping for the selected style. It's not magic — it's pattern recognition at a very specific task, trained on thousands of architectural projects.

Supported formats: .skp (SketchUp), .rvt (Revit), .3dm (Rhino), .fbx, and .ifc. We're prioritizing the formats that AEC professionals actually use, not chasing every 3D format in existence.

50 Styles

The style library has crossed 50: 25 exterior, 15 interior, and 10 landscape variants. Each new style takes less time to build than the last, because the underlying framework is getting more robust. We're on track for 100+ by the December soft launch.

The Picture Is Coming Together

With three generation modes working (sketch-to-render, text-to-image, 3D model import) and 50 styles, Style2AI is starting to look like the platform we envisioned. There's still a lot to build — elevations, diagrams, video, cost estimates — but the foundation is solid and the daily progress is accelerating.

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Two weeks in. Style2AI is starting to feel like a real product.

Sketch-to-Render Is Working

This was the first generation mode we wanted to nail, and it's working. You upload a rough architectural sketch — pencil on paper, iPad drawing, whatever — and Style2AI turns it into a photorealistic render. The pipeline handles line detection, spatial interpretation, and style application in one pass. No manual cleanup needed.

The results aren't perfect yet. Complex sketches with overlapping elements sometimes confuse the spatial parser, and we're still tuning how the system handles sketches with no clear vanishing point. But for clean architectural drawings — floor plans, elevations, perspective sketches — the output is already good enough to show a client.

20 Styles and Counting

We've built out the first 20 design styles for exterior rendering. The system isn't just applying a filter — each style has its own material palette, lighting profile, vegetation library, and atmospheric settings. A Mediterranean villa renders with terracotta, warm sunlight, and olive trees. A Scandinavian Modern home gets cool gray skies, birch wood, and clean concrete.

Some of the styles already generating clean results:

• Modern Minimalist — clean geometry, flat roofs, floor-to-ceiling glass
• Mediterranean — stucco walls, clay tiles, warm earth tones
• Industrial — exposed steel, brick, raw concrete
• Japanese Zen — timber frames, rock gardens, sliding screens
• Art Deco — geometric ornamentation, metallic accents, bold symmetry

The goal is 100+ styles by launch. We're about 20% there, and the pipeline for adding new styles is getting faster with each one.

Early UX Decisions

We're keeping the interface simple on purpose. Upload your input, choose your mode, pick a style, hit generate. No 50-parameter configuration screens. The philosophy is that professionals don't want to spend 10 minutes tweaking sliders — they want a good result in 10 seconds, then iterate from there.

There's a tension between control and speed, and for V1, we're leaning heavily toward speed. Power-user controls will come later once the core experience is solid.

Next Up

Text-to-image generation is next on the list, along with 3D model import. We want architects to be able to drop in a SketchUp or Revit model and get a styled render without any manual material assignment. That's a bigger engineering challenge, but it's the feature that would make Style2AI genuinely useful in a production workflow.

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One of the most common requests we've received since launching StageMyInterior has been for more design styles. Today we're delivering.

New Styles

We've added several new staging styles to the platform:

• Coastal Beach — light, airy interiors with natural tones, rattan textures, and ocean-inspired palettes.
• Mid-Century Modern — clean lines, organic curves, warm wood tones, and retro-inspired furniture.
• French Country — rustic elegance with distressed wood, soft florals, and warm earthy colors.
• Biophilic — nature-integrated design with indoor plants, natural materials, and organic forms.
• Tribal — bold patterns, handcrafted textures, and rich cultural motifs.
• Postmodern — playful geometry, contrasting colors, and unconventional furniture arrangements.
• Urban Modern — industrial-meets-contemporary with exposed elements and sleek furnishings.
• Contemporary — current trends in neutral palettes with statement pieces and clean layouts.

All styles are available now to all users — just select your preferred style before generating.

Explore the new styles at stagemyinterior.com. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.

There's no shortage of AI image generators right now. Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion — they're powerful, they're fast, and they produce stunning images. But if you're an architect trying to generate a code-compliant elevation, or an interior designer who needs a render that matches a specific material palette, or a contractor who needs a construction diagram — none of these tools are built for you.

The Gap

General-purpose AI generators are exactly that — general purpose. They're great for concept art, social media visuals, and creative exploration. But they fall apart when you need:

• Architectural accuracy — correct proportions, realistic materials, proper structural logic
• Style consistency — generating multiple views of the same project in the same design language
• Technical outputs — elevations, sections, diagrams, and schedules that go beyond pretty pictures
• Professional workflow integration — working with Revit, SketchUp, and Rhino files, not just text prompts
• Commercial licensing — clear ownership of generated assets for client presentations and publications

Architects and designers have been jury-rigging general AI tools into their workflows — tweaking prompts for 30 minutes to get something that looks vaguely like their project, then spending another hour in Photoshop fixing proportions and materials. It works, but it's painful.

What We're Building

We're starting work on Style2AI — an AI design platform built from the ground up for the AEC industry (architecture, engineering, and construction). Not a general image generator with an "architecture" filter. A purpose-built tool that understands design intent, respects professional standards, and fits into existing workflows.

The plan is ambitious: multiple generation modes (sketch-to-render, text-to-image, 3D model import), 100+ curated design styles, technical drawing generation (elevations, diagrams, schedules), video walkthroughs, mood boards, and direct integration with the CAD and BIM tools that professionals already use.

Learning from StageMyInterior

We've been running StageMyInterior for a few months now, and it's taught us a lot. The virtual staging market showed us that when you take AI generation and apply it to a specific professional use case with the right constraints and defaults, the results are dramatically better than asking a general tool to do the same thing. A staging-specific model knows what furniture looks right in a living room. An architecture-specific model will know what a butterfly roof is supposed to look like.

That specialization is the key insight driving Style2AI. General tools try to do everything. We're going to do one thing — design visualization for AEC professionals — and do it really well.

Timeline

We're in early development now. The goal is to have sketch-to-render and text-to-image working with 20+ styles by the end of October, scale to 100+ styles and add video generation by December, and do a public launch in January 2026. We'll share progress updates along the way.

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We're excited to launch StageMyInterior — the first product from Nth Craft.

What Is StageMyInterior?

StageMyInterior is a web app for virtual home staging and interior design visualization. Upload a photo of any room — empty or furnished — and the AI will generate a professionally staged version in the design style of your choice.

It's built for real estate agents who need listing photos staged quickly, homeowners exploring renovation ideas, interior designers looking for rapid concept visualization, and decorators testing style directions before committing.

How It Works

The process is simple:

• Upload a photo of your room.
• Choose a design style — Modern Minimalist, Cozy Farmhouse, and more.
• Generate — the AI stages the room in seconds with realistic furniture, lighting, and decor.
• Download your staged image in high resolution.

No design skills required. No software to install. Just a browser and a photo.

Why We Built It

Professional home staging costs thousands of dollars and takes days to arrange. Virtual staging services are cheaper but still require back-and-forth with a human designer. We wanted to make it instant, affordable, and accessible to everyone — from individual homeowners to real estate teams managing dozens of listings.

Try it now at stagemyinterior.com. Built by Nth Craft. Follow @nimanikroo for updates.