XKCDMakie.jl
Makie.jl diagrams with a hand-drawn look and feel
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GITHUB · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 28 upvotes (top 29%) · 0 views
Niche: data and scientific visualization tools · 146 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Implementing an XKCD-style sketchy aesthetic on top of an existing plotting library involves well-known jitter/spline perturbation algorithms and font styling that AI can readily generate.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1321 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #412 of 1322 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Fanfa · hn · 2025-12-04 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- procedural-almanac · github · 2026-10-19 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- nice-mermaid.nvim · github · 2026-09-20 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- dimensional-drawing · github · 2026-10-23 · 1190 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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