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A webassembly web based app that help editing raster and vector on browser without any subscription or signups
HN · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 145 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views
Niche: browser-based media editors · 91 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 91 launches in browser-based media editors →
Could you build this?
No Building a full-blown in-browser vector and pixel graphics engine in WebAssembly (competing with Illustrator/Photoshop) involves extremely complex computational geometry and rendering math.
What it would actually take: The core engine must be written in C++ or Rust compiled to WebAssembly with WebGL/WebGPU acceleration, managing custom 2D scenegraphs, Bézier curve math, Boolean path operations, rasterization pipelines, and memory-efficient undo/redo trees. The critical bottlenecks are implementing complex file parsers (PSD, EPS, PDF, SVG), real-time raster effect shaders, and vector tracing algorithms. It requires graphics engineering specialists with years of experience in rendering math and low-level graphics APIs.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Photopea, Pixel (croma.io), Adobe Photoshop
Concerns raised: Slow raster processing on large files, No mobile support currently
Feature requests: Native desktop app (macOS/Linux), Offline local web server version, Mobile-friendly touch UI, AI vector generation features, Open source release
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1224 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #75 of 1225 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 334 days after the earliest competitor.
- rovar · github · 2026-09-26 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- artisteer-desktop · github · 2026-11-10 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- editable-ppt-rebuilder · github · 2026-09-21 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- premetadated · github · 2026-09-19 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Scissor · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- VectorCAD · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Collage87.com · hn · 2026-01-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- kaamos · github · 2026-10-25 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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