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Gesture Synth Lab

Make music with hand gestures in your browser

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Gesture Synth Lab is a free browser instrument you can play with one hand. Hold up 1–5 fingers to switch chords, move your hand up or down to shape the tone, and record a 15-second audio clip. Prefer not to use a webcam? Play with chord pads or number keys. Hand tracking and audio stay on your device, with no install or account needed.

PH · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: software synthesizers and midi tools · 119 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -64% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Content generation
  • B2C
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Web App
  • Music
  • Audio

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Could you build this?

Yes The project combines Google MediaPipe Hands running in the browser with the Web Audio API or Tone.js for real-time gesture-controlled synthesis, which is a standard AI-assisted creative coding project.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 490 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #402 of 491 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Tunevate · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Sonari · ph · 2026-11-04 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • MP3 to MIDI Lab · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Jazz Tap · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Audio to MIDI Lab · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Learn Synths · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Music Tools Now · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • still.synth · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48

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