Innovating in the tiny house space

[StartupsRFun]

Just looking for some advice from my fellow fastlaners.

I run a tiny home business and have done so for about the last 3.5 years. We have grown year over year, have multiple locations, but I want to find a way to differentiate our company from an innovative standpoint. I feel like we are competing with all the other tiny house companies, and want to carve out a better niche, something no one else is doing, specifically to do with technology. I know there is a lot of technology being added in traditional homes, and I was curious if anyone had any advice on where to look, for some new technology in the home space, that we could possibly incorporate.

 

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[Giallo]

Here's a few ideas that I just had, some are not technology related but more focused around the functions and benefits to the target audience:
- tiny patio and integration with the surrounding environment
- tiny homes designed for specific locations (the woods, the beach, etc)
- fully energy autonomous houses. Can you make one that generates enough energy to sustain itself?
- innovation in waste handling for tiny houses
- infrared heating as an alternative to traditional central heating
- houses with multiple floors (makes me think about a lot of tiny homes I used to see in Japan. They master the art of maximizing small spaces, since land can be extremely expensive in downtown Tokyo)
- houses optimized for natural lighting

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This makes me think about tiny homes designed to be rented as Airbnb spaces...

 

[Fastlane Liam]

Hey, super interesting. Can you tell us more about your tiny house business. How does it work? Do you make and ship the houses to people?