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Pelican-bicycle alternatives

Details

External ID
49696402
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Pelican-bicycle alternatives
Website domain
gally.net
Launched
Sept. 14, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
131
Upvotes percentile
0.9425837320574163
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.

Description

In November and December 2025, inspired by Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark, I had some then-current LLMs create SVGs from thirty similar prompts, such as “Generate an SVG of an octopus operating a pipe organ.” Simon mentioned that experiment on his blog [1].Nine months have passed and much stronger models have been released, so I tried the experiment again today. The linked site shows the results.Running ten of the prompts through six models at OpenRouter cost about twenty dollars, so I stopped there for now.[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/25/

Enrichment

Theme
interactive simulations and creative experiments
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
static site generator themes for pelican users
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a static showcase/gallery website displaying pre-generated SVG outputs from various LLM prompts alongside run metadata, easily built with any modern web framework.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Little Dorrit Benchmark, artificialanalysis.ai

Concerns raised: Benchmark is already saturated, Outputs lack coherency and spatial understanding

Feature requests: Test with animated SVG output, Origami folding instructions test

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 11 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #2 of 12 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.

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