MetalForge
Beautiful shaders for SwiftUI, React Native & Web
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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.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: graphics rendering engines and libraries · 149 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Design Tools
- Developer Tools
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 312 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #248 of 313 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
- minecraft-metal-shaders · github · 2026-10-12 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- border-beam-ios · github · 2026-11-10 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- kavynUI · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- CandleKit · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- node-webgl · github · 2026-09-16 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Minted · ph · 2026-10-30 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- react-native-blur · github · 2026-10-03 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Nexus UI Labs · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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