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Kubik

See how big a cubic metre really is – drawn to scale next to a person, for water, firewood, gravel, sand, soil and concrete.

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Opens at everydayapps.se/app/kubik/

A one-cubic-metre cube of water next to a man 1.8 metres tall, with volume, litres and weight in a fact box and a slider from 0.1 to 100 m³.

Maturity

  1. Idea(completed)
  2. Prototype(completed)
  3. Alpha(completed)
  4. Beta(current stage)
  5. Promoted

About the project

Kubik answers a question numbers are bad at: how big is a cubic metre, really? The cube is drawn next to a person, and as you drag the slider up towards ten or a hundred cubic metres, it grows at the same scale.

Firewood got a page of its own, because the difference between solid, stacked and loose cubic metres is what most often trips people up when buying wood – in Sweden, firewood is sold by all three. For measurements when you’re building, there is Tum till Millimeter (inches to millimetres) on EverydayApps.

Current state

What works

  • The cube is drawn to scale next to a 1.8-metre person
  • Six materials with their weight per cubic metre
  • A slider from 0.1 to 100 m³ that redraws instantly, and a shareable link to every volume
  • Firewood measures – solid, stacked and loose cubic metres and how they convert
  • Comparison of two volumes, everyday examples, favourites and dark mode

What isn’t finished

  • No automated tests
  • Cubic metres only – no conversion between litres, cubic feet or other units of volume
  • No calculator for how much material your own project needs

Why is this project on BSite?

  • Features are not complete yet

Kubik makes volume easy to grasp, but it is more a visualisation than a tool you keep coming back to. On EverydayApps, Tum till Millimeter is the stronger measuring tool for anyone building things – with timber dimensions and carpentry terms. With a material calculator for your own projects, Kubik is a candidate to move back.

Screenshots

  • The firewood page explaining the difference between solid, stacked and loose cubic metres and how to convert between them.
  • The comparison view, where two volumes are placed side by side to scale.
  • The examples page with everyday objects and how many cubic metres they correspond to.

Development log

  1. Moved to BSite. The app stays at the same address, everydayapps.se/app/kubik/.

  2. Got an install button in the app's own interface.

  3. Built from a mockup, with custom generated images of the materials.