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HomeCrag
A home wall design tool where builders input their space dimensions and wall angle to receive auto-suggested hold layouts, route difficulty estimates, and a shopping list of holds.
What to build
MVP
A web app with a simple 3D wall-angle/size input form that outputs a suggested hold grid and difficulty curve, plus affiliate links to hold vendors, validated against a handful of real home-wall builds shared in community threads.
Why it can be better
No tool currently helps home wall builders plan layouts; they rely on ad hoc forum Q&A about angle and space, and none of the competitor products (KAYA, RocoLib, custom-routes-android) address pre-build planning at all.
Revenue model
One-time design fee (~$20-40 per wall plan) plus affiliate commission from hold/wall-panel retailers, paid by DIY builders investing hundreds to thousands in materials.
Target user
Home gym builders and small commercial spaces planning a new wall.
Context
The opportunity this answers
Build a phone-camera app that scans any climbing wall to auto-map holds and routes, giving climbers and home-wall builders personalized route and training suggestions.
Why now
Fresh CV datasets and hold-classification models built in the past year finally make automated wall scanning technically feasible, but they remain scattered single-star hobbyist repositories with no packaged product, while chain gyms keep expanding and search demand holds steady at 8,100-18,100 monthly, giving a real, growing user base ready for a tool that turns this raw technology into something usable before a larger incumbent bundles it first.