Tako by Atomli
Fastest, lightest quantum chemistry simulation.
Details
- External ID
- 1254277
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tako
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Physics, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Description
Tako is a browser-local atomistic simulation workspace for quantum chemistry. Tako included a native jupyter notebook like interface and rich agentic support, making quantum chemistry more approachable. The underlaying chemistry Atomli reduced DFT compute by more then 10x without any compromise on accuracy, reduce compute cost.
Enrichment
- Theme
- scientific computing and deep tech tools
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- quantum chemistry simulation software for researchers and engineers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Running quantum chemistry calculations (tight-binding, DFT, machine-learned interatomic potentials) locally in browser WebAssembly requires deep domain expertise in computational chemistry, physics algorithms, and low-level performance compilation.
What it would actually take: This requires compiling complex Fortran/C++ quantum chemistry and electronic structure engines (like xTB, Libxc) to WebAssembly via Emscripten, alongside optimized linear algebra runtimes (BLAS/LAPACK) and neural network inference runtimes (ONNX/Wasm SIMD/WebGPU) for ML interatomic potentials like NequIP. It demands deep numerical physics expertise to ensure convergence, energy conservation, and stability within browser memory limits, accompanied by WebGL/WebGPU shaders for atomistic rendering.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #10 of 12 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
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