Nicholas Donahue
Founder of Drafted, Design your home instantly with AI
Company
Nicholas Donahue is listed as a founder of Drafted. Drafted is building multimodal generative models for residential architecture and spatial design. The product allows users to design homes by combining sketches and direct spatial input to generate coherent floor plans and elevations that can be explored in both 2D and 3D. Users can define footprints, lot boundaries, room placement, relationships, room programs, and square footage constraints that persist across generations and iterative design exploration, then export CAD, PDF, and other files into the rest of the home design and construction process. More info on the company: ⁃ In the past month, we've had 120k users come to the site, generating 325k+ floor plans through socials and word-of-mouth. ⁃ A team of 9, made up of researchers from Stanford, Autodesk, Brown, Adobe, and Architects from WeWork, Atmos, and design families ⁃ Raised $17.5M from investors such as Buckley Ventures (Josh Buckley), YC (Aaron Epstein), Patrick Collison, Evan Moore, Convective Capital (Bill Clerico), Ben Silbermann, Jack Altman, Samsung, Starship Ventures, Charlie Songhurst, Ryan Tedder, Moses Moody, Alex Blania, and Kevin Mahaffey
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A few years ago, I was helping people design and build custom homes.
A few years ago, I was helping people design and build custom homes. I expected the hard part to be construction. Instead, I became obsessed with something that happened much earlier. People had questions about what was possible, but getting answers often required weeks or
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Damn, our new roof editing is sick!
Damn, our new roof editing is sick!
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That's cool
That's cool
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After seeing how unique my design designs are with the new roof editing, it's hard to imagine buying a house that already exists.
After seeing how unique my design designs are with the new roof editing, it's hard to imagine buying a house that already exists. Everything else just feels super cookie-cutter now.
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This is the huge danger with vibe coding.
This is the huge danger with vibe coding. Everyone wants to build and create now but it leads to a lot of team members trying to recreate a slightly better version of something that isn’t a good use of time. It’s super important to push back on this and prioritize what moves the
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It’s crazy how quickly my feed has come back to life. So many friendly faces 🥲
It’s crazy how quickly my feed has come back to life. So many friendly faces 🥲
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This looks like a Teenage Engineering level product. Super slick design.
This looks like a Teenage Engineering level product. Super slick design.
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It's crazy how such a simple change to the roof can make the home feel so different.
It's crazy how such a simple change to the roof can make the home feel so different.