Mix Painter
Browser painting app where colors mix like real pigment
Details
- External ID
- 1256196
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mix Painter
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Web App, Design Tools, Art
- Fetched at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
A painting app where yellow and blue make green. Every brush and layer is animatable: warp, filter, drive it with nodes or your own code. Runs on your GPU, in your browser, free.
Enrichment
- Theme
- graphic design assets and utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based realistic pigment painting tool for artists
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Simulating realistic pigment color mixing in the browser requires deep knowledge of computer graphics, custom WebGPU/WGSL shaders, and subtractive color physics like the Kubelka-Munk model.
What it would actually take: The architecture demands a WebGPU rendering pipeline written in WGSL that models optical pigment reflectance spectra or Kubelka-Munk absorption/scattering coefficients instead of standard RGB blending. It also requires a custom high-performance layer compositing engine, a node-based shader graph compiler, and optimized brush physics, demanding specialized graphics engineering expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 212 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #43 of 213 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- Paint Color Mixer · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Mixora · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- ImageColorPix · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Image Color Palette Generator · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Toddler Coloring Games · ph · 2026-09-23 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Lucidity Paints - Digital Art App · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation · hn · 2026-06-14 · 250 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Creative Canvas: Draw & Paint · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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- No other launches for this product.
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