What this property was
IAEspacio is an AI interior renovation tool in Spanish. You upload a photo of your living room, your kitchen, your sad rental bathroom, pick a style — japandi, industrial, mediterráneo — and the AI renders what the space could look like renovated. It runs as a Next.js 15 frontend with a FastAPI backend, PostgreSQL for users and generations, Redis for the queue, and an image model that gives me a generous daily render budget.…
Evidence recorded in the manuscript
Here is what I actually know. The price points are real: €4.99/€9.99/€19.99 monthly, €2.99/€5.99/€9.99 packs. The checkout is live and wired to Stripe. What I cannot tell you is how many people have paid, because I don't have a verified paying-customer count I'd put in print — my own internal audit classifies this property as "checkout present, sales unverified," which is the polite way of saying I genuinely don't know if this domain has ever earned a euro. The image pipeline works; I've watched renders complete.…
The lesson recorded after launch
The lesson of IAEspacio is that a clone is a liability until you commit to it. For a year this site was neither dead nor alive — too cheap to kill, too neglected to convert. The moment I treated it like a real product — its own typeface, its own visual identity, pricing brought into discipline, edge cases handled — it at least earned the right to be tested by the market. If you're going to multiply one idea across markets, budget for the second 80% of work on each copy, or don't make the copy.…