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360Crafter

360Crafter is a visual drag-and-drop builder for creating immersive 360° virtual tours. No coding required - simply upload your panoramas, add interactive hotspots with a few clicks, and customize the appearance using the visual skin editor. Source code is freely available.

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Features

Some of the awesomeness of 360Crafter

Source-available

Public source code allows users, customers, and stakeholders to verify that software works as advertised, contains no hidden malicious code, and handles data securely, building confice in the product. Soon on Github.

Bring your own storage

Instead of paying a higher subscription fee for more storage or usage, pay a one time fee and bring your own storage to have a low cost scalable solution. Whether that is Hetzner, AWS, Digital Ocean or Cloudflare R2 is up to you.
If you don't mind you can also pay a subscription fee based on storage to start very easy.

Easy customizable design

Simplicity is awesome, customizability is epic. Design your own skin on top of your 360° tour, show or hide skin and hotspots on action triggers. Make the skin responsive using grid. Have a style sheet available that instantly updates all the colors of hotspots and skin components if you want to do so. Easily see which edits you made with blue labels and turn them back to default value with option/alt+click.

Fast workflow that you own

Import panoramas, add hotspots, design skin, super quick previews and when ready you hit publish and it publishes to your own custom domain in seconds fully white-label.

CMS

Import a CSV file or connect your Google Spreadsheet to handle the content. Easily connect each row item with a hotspot or panorama and tell 360Crafter which field needs to be connected with which title.

Local Compression

Most people don't like to think of compressing their panoramas. When uploading a panorama you get asked if you want to compress. By clicking yes it compresses the panorama locally in the browser before it reaches the server. This way your storage can handle much more, everything loads quicker and overall hosting cost is lower.

3 Types of data

When choosing software to create you 360° virtual tours in, you can ask yourself the question which data is yours. Here's three types of data we handle separately.

1
Exported data

This is when you're working in a project and hit export. Usually you get a static export which means some index.html file with some folders that can be hosted on your FTP or S3 server. Some software ask you to pay for each time you export or limit your maximum amount of exports based on your subscription.

2
Project data

When starting a new project and importing or uploading your panoramas, where do these panoramas get stored? With subscription based software usually on someone else's server unless you have the option to bring your own s3 storage. If it's on someone else's server and not encrypted, it means that the owners of the software can peek as well on what you're building. They might even analyze your panoramas and sell that information to your competitors. If not today, they might update their privacy policy tomorrow. Depending how popular the software is, how much leverage they have and what the mindset is of those who own the company.

3
Application data

Do you have access to the application data itself? Most 360° software that's simply a No. By having access to the application data itself, developers and AI can analyze what happens in there and validate that there's no malicious things happening in there such as analyzing your data and reselling that. This is the level of tranparency and trust that 360Crafter has to offer. You can even modify the application to your own liking. You decide whether you upgrade or roll back to an older version of the software.

Your options with 360Crafter

360Crafter offers a lot of flexibility with hosting your data.

360Crafter Cloud

360Crafter
360Crafter hosts your project data (2) and the application data (3). 360Crafter provides you always with the latest upgrade available.

You
You can export your data (1) and make a copy of your projectfiles locally on your computer.

Complexity level
Easy: Easiest option which doesn't require technical knowledge.

Available? Not yet.

360Crafter BYO-S3

360Crafter
Bring Your Own s3-storage means that 360Crafter only hosts the application data (3). 360Crafter provides you always with the latest upgrade available.

You
You host your own project data (2), you can publish tours instantly from the application on your s3. You can make an export of your data (1) and make a copy of your projectfiles locally on your computer.

Complexity level
Medium: Slightly more technical setting up s3 storage and connecting it to 360Crafter.

Available now? Yes in beta.

Self host with docker

360Crafter
Self host the application with docker means that 360Crafter doesn't host anything for you.

You
You host the application data (3), you can modify the application, you host your own project data (2), you can publish tours instantly from the application on your s3. You can make an export of your data (1) and make a copy of your projectfiles locally on your computer. You are also fully responsible for updating the application and keeping your server secure.

Complexity level
Hard: Requires technical knowledge.

Available? Not yet.

23 Awesome things about 360Crafter

1. Ownership: No vendor lock-in
2. Workspaces: organize projects per client
3. Workspaces: share access with team or client without sharing project backups with medias or missing files
4. Workflow: Instant preview (no need to wait creating cache to see your latest change)
5. Hosting & Loading speed: Auto-compress panoramas before you even upload them to the server with sometimes 90% lower filesizes
6. Instant publish to your own server
7. Instant update publish to your own server in seconds (no more FTP'ing)
8. Skin: Aspect Ratio
9. Skin: Blur & other backdrop filters
10. Skin: Border styles (dashed & dots)
11. Skin: Borderwidth that can be set on all sides AND individual sides
12. Skin: Radius that can be set on all corners AND individual corners
13. Skin: Use SVGs for icons and change colors without re-uploading images
14. Skin: All web-design options available for various components
15. Skin: design tokens so that rebranding a tour is just a few clicks.
16. Skin: responsive design using custom breakpoints
17. CMS: import your own CSV that can be usually generated from almost any software
18. CMS: because it's a CSV, there's no external API dependencies and the CMS works as a standalone package. No need for an internet connection to showcase this dynamic 360tour. No API limitatations. No dependencies.
19. CMS: create 20 or 100 or 2000 popups with a single design (no duplication)
20. CMS: Collection Lists to create menu's with that can be filtered
21. Hosting: Super low cost hosting such as AWS or Hetzner directly connected to 360Crafter for projectfilesles & published files
22. Hosting & publishing: Easily connect your (sub)domain for production
23. Vibe-code on top of 360Crafter to create your own functionalities in 360Crafter as you self-host the full application on your own server

Pricing

Simple one time fee for the first 100 Early Adopters until 360Crafter goes into production.
Scheduled date for production: December this year.

Early Adopter - BYO-S3

€120

Price for the first 100 Early Adopters.
One time fee.

  • Bring your own s3 storage bucket
  • Lifetime Software upgrades
  • Private Community Channel
  • Unlimited workspaces
  • Unlimited projects
  • No platform Lock-in
  • Your spot on the wall of 100 Early Adopters
Pre-order
Ronald, 360Creators

Why create 360Crafter?

There's 360° virtual tour software out there, but most are subscription-only. Nothing bad with paying a subscription, but having that as the only option might put creators in a vulnerable position in which they built their business, but then over time something might change from the owners of the software in which all the creators need to comply with that change.

Then there's software that you can download in which creators have more control over what happens with their data, but most of those tools are already out there for so many years and haven't improved their interfaces to make things a bit more easy for users.

And all of it is closed source, except for Marzipano. But Marzipano is brought by Google and not maintained anymore. What if there's a more modern 360° virtual tour software builder that has it's source publicly available, works with today's modern web standards and is created by someone teaching 3DVista for over 5 years? That's kind of the idea.

Initially I though I'd need a team with developers and about half a million euros in investments to create this. But now we're living in this wonderful time with AI in which I'm able to vibe-code my way through it and create 360Crafter in just a few months with much lower investments. I've launched a Kickstarter campaign which didn't make it. However now I'm taking pre-orders from creators directly. They gain early access to the beta version and can help me co-create 360Crafter with their ideas. And they get the best offer anyone is ever going to get once it goes live in production.

I build in public

See the latest videos I've posted on the right side, it contains a playlist.

Build in public playlist on Youtube
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Frequently Asked Questions

S3 storage is like a giant, secure digital warehouse in the cloud where your project files and published tours are stored. It automatically handles the separation between private work-in-progress files and making your finished tours publicly available through 360Crafter.

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Interested in trying out 360Crafter? Fill out the form below and maybe we will see each other in a call during a live beta test where you think out loud.

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