MetalForge
Beautiful shaders for SwiftUI, React Native & Web
Details
- External ID
- 1261793
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- MyVitalForge
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- iOS, Design Tools, Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
MetalForge turns shaders into sliders. Pick one of 68 effects (glass orbs, liquid chrome, aurora, gradients, particles) or a tool like holographic stickers, loaders and breakable 3D gems. Shape it in a live preview, then take the code: a real Metal shader file for SwiftUI, a Skia shader for React Native, or a ready-made component for the web. No shader code to write, and every download also comes as a runnable project.
Enrichment
- Theme
- graphic design assets and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- shader library for cross-platform app developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building the catalog web UI with parameter sliders is simple, but authoring dozens of complex, cross-platform graphical shaders (Metal Shading Language, Skia Shading Language, and GLSL/WebGPU) requires specialized graphics programming knowledge.
What it would actually take: Requires an expert graphics programmer fluent in MSL (Metal), SkSL (Skia), and GLSL/WGSL to hand-craft, benchmark, and optimize complex mathematical rendering algorithms (e.g., raymarching, fluid simulations, procedural noise). While an AI can scaffold basic shaders, writing 60+ performant, production-ready shaders tailored to diverse native runtimes requires deep domain expertise in computer graphics.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #90 of 144 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
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