Dwellable
The app I built after waiving home inspection during Covid
Details
- External ID
- 45768335
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dwellable
- Website domain
- apple.com
- Launched
- Oct. 31, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10377358490566038
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
When my wife and I bought our first home in 2020, it was peak COVID. Our agent actually asked us to waive the home inspection, which was terrifying. I ended up walking through the house myself with a set of handwritten notes: “check if Kitchen outlets are GFI,” “make sure toilet flushes”, “test the bath fan”, etc.That experience became the seed for Dwellable, a home maintenance and inspection app for homeowners like us who didn’t know where to start (both before and after buying).The app automatically pulls your property records (square footage, year built, fuel type, etc.) and uses AI to recommend reminders and seasonal maintenance tasks. It’s free right now, built entirely native on iOS and Android.On the side, I’ve been experimenting with VLMs (vision language models) to analyze photos that users take during inspections, for things like spotting corrosion or damaged caulking.If you’ve ever felt lost after closing on a house, this might resonate.Tech stack:- Backend: Python + gRPC, RabbitMQ- AI: Perplexity + OpenAI- iOS: SwiftUI- Android: Fully composeWould love feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- iOS and iPhone utility apps
- Vertical
- Real estate
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- home inspection tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a mobile app integrating standard real estate public records APIs (like ATTOM or Estated), a task checklist database, and an LLM wrapper to provide home maintenance advice.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 23 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 24 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- Residely · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- DwellStamp · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Homeniac · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- BN Reports Home Inspection Software · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- HomeLog · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Home Secured · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Briskly · ph · 2026-09-29 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- HomeDash.ai · ph · 2026-09-28 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.