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auslandscape: a 3D design studio homeowners and landscapers actually share
A landscaping quote is usually a sketch and a guess. auslandscape puts homeowner and landscaper in the same 3D scene, editing the same design, before a shovel touches the ground.
The problem: landscaping design happens in two disconnected heads
A homeowner has a rough idea of what they want in the backyard. A landscaper has professional judgement about what’s buildable, on-budget and suited to the site. Between those two, most of the industry still runs on hand sketches, phone photos and back-and-forth quotes — with no shared canvas either side can actually see and edit together.
auslandscape (Eucalyptus #4C8C5C + terracotta, independent brand) is built to close that gap
directly: a 3D outdoor design studio that homeowner and landscaper edit together, plus a
network/chat/jobs layer and a materials marketplace around it.
What’s actually built
The Studio is a real 3D editor, not a viewer — built on Three.js / React Three Fiber:
- 16 self-built primitive templates across four categories (zero external assets, zero licensing risk).
- Click-to-place with a ghost hint, drag-to-move with 0.5m snap, 45° rotate, scale, delete, full keyboard shortcuts.
- Autosave every 2.5 seconds, with save-version and restore.
- GLB import with real validation (25MB cap, magic-byte check).
- Google auth, share-by-email to a landscaper, and 3D pin annotations so a landscaper can leave notes directly on a specific spot in the design — not in a separate email thread.
The architecture, honestly
The scene schema is identical between the local-first store and the live Firestore store — the driver swaps underneath without changing the UI, which is what let the editor ship and get end-to-end browser-tested before Firebase was even wired in. Firestore rules are default-deny (RLS-first), and AI runs exclusively through the BIXSO Brain Gateway, Energy-metered like every other app in the ecosystem — no silent fallback to an unmetered model call.
Cost-wise, this is genuinely dev-mode: Cloud Run isn’t enabled on the project yet because there’s no backend deployed, which means $0 compute — not a throttled config, an honestly empty one.
Where it stands
Live at auslandscape.com.au. Network, marketplace and the AI landscaper are the next phases — not built yet, and we’re not claiming otherwise.
Book a consult if your business needs a shared design tool between you and your customer, not just a portfolio gallery.