Hocus
Architectural Visualisation, built on AI
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Hocus turns a view from SketchUp, Rhino or any 3D tool into a photoreal render that keeps your geometry where you drew it. Describe the place and light in plain words, refine one thing at a time. Invite-only for now: request access.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: 3d modeling and rendering software · 145 launches, 22 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Construction
- Content generation
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- Interior design
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Could you build this?
Partial The plugin and web UI are vibe-codeable, but photoreal renders that stay faithful to the user's geometry need tuned generative models (e.g., depth or edge-conditioned diffusion) and iteration on architectural output quality, which goes beyond prompting.
What it would actually take: Export depth and edge maps from the SketchUp or Rhino viewport and feed them as conditioning into a diffusion pipeline such as ControlNet on Flux or SDXL, wrapped in a plugin and a refinement UI. Making results look architecturally credible and consistent across edits requires fine-tuned models or LoRAs trained on architectural imagery, plus GPU infrastructure. That combination is where ML and rendering expertise is needed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 236 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #43 of 237 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
- Raya.design · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- ArchitecturesAI · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ARCH AI · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- RenderAIX · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- B3 ArchHomeAI · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Sketchup-Pro-For-Windows · github · 2026-11-12 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- 3D-Modeling-With-Sketchup · github · 2026-11-13 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Layoutr · ph · 2026-09-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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