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HN · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive 3d web simulations · 157 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Not AI
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Could you build this?
Yes Roadwright is a self-contained browser app implementing classical differential geometry equations for non-circular rolling wheels (Hall & Wagon, 1992) using Canvas/SVG animations.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 211 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #103 of 212 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world · hn · 2026-04-07 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Sandboard · github · 2026-09-17 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- pixel-path · github · 2026-10-12 · 201 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- terra-drive · github · 2026-09-28 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- I made a vertical-pedalling bike with a novel drivetrain [video] · hn · 2026-05-07 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- openMapper · github · 2026-10-23 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- procedural-almanac · github · 2026-10-19 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Art · hn · 2026-09-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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