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Tone Generator

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HN · launched Aug 2, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 42%) · 0 views

Niche: audio editing and processing utilities · 217 launches, 23 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Content generation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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More like this: all 217 launches in audio editing and processing utilities →

Could you build this?

Yes Browser-based tone generation is a standard implementation of the native HTML5 Web Audio API using OscillatorNode and AnalyserNode for the oscilloscope.

Discussion

7 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Audacity

Concerns raised: Doesn't work in Lockdown Mode on iPhone, Mains hum caused by magnetostriction, not just line frequency, Error message suggests Safari to Safari users

Feature requests: Support for Lockdown Mode browsers

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 479 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #191 of 480 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.

  • ToneGen · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.74
  • Tone Generator: Frequency Hz · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • SonicForge · ph · 2026-09-24 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Hz generator · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Tanin · hn · 2026-02-16 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • ToneMappingAnalysis · github · 2026-09-12 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Stable Audio 3 · hn · 2026-05-31 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • HertzKit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53

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