Swatchify
CLI to get a color palette from an image
Details
- External ID
- 46075968
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Swatchify
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Nov. 28, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
A fast, cross-platform CLI tool that extracts dominant colors from images using k-means clustering.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche creative and graphics software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- extract color palette from image
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Standard image color quantization using k-means clustering in Go or JavaScript is straightforward and easily implemented with existing algorithmic libraries or AI code generation.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Memory limits and dimension caps for image decoding, Large resolution uploads (4K) causing OOM in container
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 317 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #222 of 318 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 25 days after the earliest competitor.
- sar-colorization-gan · github · 2026-09-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- A simple algorithm for shifting solid-color image backgrounds (WASM) · hn · 2026-01-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- PerF · github · 2026-09-26 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Compositor · github · 2026-09-16 · 3456 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Pureza · github · 2026-09-20 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Image Color Palette Generator · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DeepSelect · github · 2026-09-09 · 327 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Color-Pallet · github · 2026-09-20 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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