DepthGaze
See into the water from a boat, jetty or shore
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A live camera for water. Hold your phone above the surface and DepthGaze cuts glare, restores the colour water swallows, and lifts contrast — every frame, on-device. Free to start; Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription. Not a depth gauge. iOS and Android.
PH · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: photo sharing and camera apps · 206 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -20% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- iOS
- Photography
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Could you build this?
Partial Real-time, on-device underwater color restoration and glare reduction requires custom GPU shaders (Metal/Vulkan) and specialized computer vision algorithms to run smoothly at 30-60 FPS without overheating the phone.
What it would actually take: A production version requires low-level graphics/compute pipelines (Metal on iOS, RenderScript/Vulkan on Android) implementing underwater optical physical models (e.g., Sea-thru principles or dark channel prior adaptations) or an optimized CoreML/TFLite model. Building this requires deep expertise in real-time computer vision, colorimetry, and mobile GPU optimization.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 150 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #119 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- Under-water-image-enhancement · github · 2026-09-09 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Flowveil · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- clearwater · github · 2026-09-23 · 471 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- 3D Depth Wallpaper Maker · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- PotholeScan · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Ocean · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Reverse perspective camera for OpenGL (Three.js) · hn · 2025-11-10 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Submarius · hn · 2026-06-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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