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Hot Spot – Figma Plugin

Smart Image Cropping Tool powered by Object & Face Detection

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“Hot Spot” is a Figma plugin that detects objects, human faces, and salient subjects within image nodes to enable smart image cropping. The detection process uses machine learning models and is fast with the power of Worker and WASM (WebAssembly).

PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

Niche: creative and developer tool plugins · 128 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product
  • Design Tools

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Could you build this?

Yes Figma plugins can run client-side JavaScript, Web Workers, and existing pre-trained WASM/ONNX models (such as MediaPipe or BlazeFace) to perform face/object detection and adjust crop bounds directly in the plugin canvas.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 45 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #10 of 46 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 146 days after the earliest competitor.

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