I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles.

It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simple function call for the next agent, building a flywheel. There is full agent-human parity in every surface, so there is a human UI for the procedures too.

Every operation is yaml, so agents pick it up pretty quickly. Agents can also file feature requests when they reach for a tool that doesn't exist. You can export to 3d printing files, video walk-through, step files, get a BOM and a cut plan, view your project in life-size with AR. There is a notion-like interface for authoring build guides... a lot going on. If you're a woodworker/software engineer you might enjoy it.

You can add the MCP to your agent of choice, send a picture, description, sketch or whatever; say "build this with Sawdust"

https://sawdust.diy

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purplemoonx 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Amazing resource if it takes off.

I wanted to build a bed frame recently and imagined software where I could choose lumber from a list and visually assemble the bed frame in the software how I see fit, choose stains, flourishes - then go order the wood and have it cut. At that point it's like taking home an IKEA bed, except of way higher quality materials and to your exact design spec.

> Real SKUs, a real BOM you can send to any lumberyard; understand exactly what you need down to the last nail.

Is especially interesting, it sounds like you could basically do that with this software.

Turning the woodworking process into code to be automated by an LLM is pretty ambitious, and is the part I am most skeptical about. Of course, if you get that right (plus adoption) it would be unbelievably huge.

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variodot 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have been building something non-CAD too in the space which is also aligned with carpentry. This looks really neat and can't believe how similar the functionality is. Would be great to chat!

https://shopspec.io/app

	▲	taylorfinley a minute ago \| parent [-]
		Shopspec looks very cool! Love to see people building in this direction, we have at least validated for each other that the demand for a tool like this has a minimum bound of at least 2. Feel free to reach out! Email in profile.

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bedstefar 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow! Gotta try that out! I'm from outside the USA, hopefully it'll work too with SI units

	▲	taylorfinley 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		SI units are intended to be supported, but I am unfamiliar with commonly-available wood sizes in non-US markets so it is thoroughly untested and likely a bit of a disaster. Bug reports are appreciated and can be filed by clicking the lightbulb in the chat window or asking an agent to file it via the MCP.