I made a fireplace for your wrist (and widgets)
Details
- External ID
- 45925962
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Nov. 14, 2025
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.712882096069869
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I was bored and cold so I made a simple fireplace app to keep your icons and wrist warm this coming winter. Relax in front of a comforting pixelated fire! It's for iOS.https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fireplace-for-your-phone/id675...Features:- Widget in varying sizes to enjoy a warming fireplace on your phone - Companion watch app to enjoy a mini fireplace wherever you go - Various customisation options for flames and colours (small unlock IAP)There are no subscriptions, just like a real fireplace (I assume, who know these days)https://fireplacephone.com/
Enrichment
- Theme
- personal health and wellness trackers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- wearable fireplace display
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A simple iOS fireplace animation app with WidgetKit support uses basic SpriteKit/SwiftUI views and standard Apple widget templates.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Pixel Fireplace (Steam/itch.io), aafire (Linux terminal), YouTube fireplace videos
Concerns raised: User tracking via looping animation, Android ecosystem difficult for developers, Play Store users don't pay for apps, iOS/watchOS development complexity with Xcode
Feature requests: Android version, Desktop/TV versions, Logs feature (coming soon), Crypto mining to generate actual heat, Hand warmer functionality
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Launched 16 days after the earliest competitor.
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