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
- —
- 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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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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