A zero-cost foundation for building and prototyping an AI-driven interior design application.
Building an AI-heavy design app requires expensive 3D modeling and high-performance hosting, which is often inaccessible for student startups. Coordinating a team of 5 without a centralized workspace leads to fragmented design files and slow development cycles.
The team can now generate 3D furniture assets from text, design a collaborative UI, and deploy a live web prototype with a real-time database—all without spending a dollar.
Collaborative UI/UX design and prototyping for the interior design app.
Generating 3D furniture and room meshes from text prompts using AI.
Storing user designs, 3D asset metadata, and handling authentication.
Hosting the application code and managing collaborative development.
Hosting the web application and providing a global CDN.
Centralizing project requirements, design specs, and research.
Every push to GitHub automatically triggers a preview deployment on Vercel.
Live Figma designs can be embedded directly into Notion pages for context.
This stack leverages the generous free tiers of industry-leading tools to help a student-led startup validate their AI interior design concept without upfront capital. It covers high-fidelity UI design, 3D asset generation, and a robust serverless backend.
