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Andrew Dickson@andrew_dickson
Hello Product Hunters! I’m Andrew, co-founder of Acre. Our mission is to replace many of the 1 million shoddy, inefficient homes built every year - which haven’t changed in over a century - with a product you can love. Simple, smart, and sustainable, we design homes as a high-end consumer product. The goal is to enable you to spend less time thinking about … See more
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yonatan doron@jodoron · BizDev @ https://yes.no
@bennettdickson Hey Andrew, smart homes or net zero homes are becoming more prevalent and there are probably hundreds of companies building, shipping and offering such houses. My first question would be, how to you differ yourself from the competition? Second of all, what countries are you active on and what kind of service would you offer for someone consi… See more
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Jaime Macias@jmacias · Product @boost.
@bennettdickson Hey Andrew, very impressive. This has in recent history been a hard market to succeed in (modern, green, system homes). I have seen a number of these launched, not necessarily as ambitious, but that ultimately don't get the traction to materialize in a real way. Do you have any plans that you think will help you knock it out of the park? … See more
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Andrew Dickson@andrew_dickson
@jmacias Thanks! It is a hard road, no doubt. We are different in a couple key areas. A. We work with local builders to assemble the home, reducing our overhead, increasing reach and ability to scale and leveraging their talents and familiarity with local issues. B. We have some hardware tech that will help us reduce costs and maintain quality. C. … See more
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Andrew Dickson@andrew_dickson
@jodoron Hey Yonatan! See below for a few differences. Seems like there are many options, but in reality, there are not many. Housing is such a fractured market with hundreds of builders in every major metro, but there are only a handful of companies that break the mold, getting press in the process. It's unlikely that there will ever be a Google of hous… See more
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Tamrat@tamrrat · Architect, Urban designer, Programmer
@bennettdickson This looks amazing and very ambitious! 1. These houses seem to be geared towards single families. Are there any alternative types in the works for new sectors like co-housing. 2. As it seems the houses come prepackaged with the design, how do you plan to get Architects involved? ( and not just contractors and builders). Are you planning to… See more
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Jennifer Jecker Dickson@jen_dickson · CDO, Acre Designs
Hi @tamrrat, I'm the architecture side of the team, and it's definitely not our intent to put architects out of business!! It's a major frustration that architects are already pretty well sidelined from residential design, and very few people have the pleasure of living in a home designed by an architect. Most are just permutations of a builder plan that's … See more
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Drew Meyers@drewmeyers · Co-Founder, Horizon
@bennettdickson Super awesome project on many levels.. I run a real estate technology blog, @geekestate, and would love to cover this at some point. Feel free to send me an email - drew at horizonapp.co
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Tamrat@tamrrat · Architect, Urban designer, Programmer
@jen_dickson "By shifting toward architecture as a product (rather than a service), we've been able to spend the necessary time to make these homes significantly better, rethink outdated practices on the builder side, and offer them in such a way that can be repeated over and over - allowing more people to enjoy good design and high-performance. " I complete… See more
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Diogo Neves@diogosnows · Sound Wave Wrangler, LOST
@bennettdickson @jodoron please come to the UK next! Housing here is starting to be (has been for a while really) a big big problem! Specifically Cambridge UK, desperately needs more housing and is a place very open to energy efficient solutions ;)
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Jesse Williams@j_r_wi11iams · VP of Marketing, Adjoy.
@bennettdickson First off this is great and the design aspects are on point as well. You mention that you work with local builders to assemble the homes, but on the site there are fixed pricing. Is this pricing based on a certain region, like the bay area? I ask because as you know, home prices vary across the united states and California specifically ad… See more
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joe borza@joeborza · CoFounder EnergyElephant
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