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tanim

Endless procedural screensaver animations for your terminal: 20+ pixel-art scenes in true color from a single Rust binary, also playable in the browser via WebAssembly.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 55%) · 0 views

Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Content generation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • animation
  • cli
  • generative-art
  • pixel-art
  • procedural-generation
  • rust
  • +6 more

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Could you build this?

Partial Writing a terminal UI wrapper is simple, but crafting 20+ procedural math and pixel-art rendering algorithms compiled to both CLI and WASM requires specialized graphics coding.

What it would actually take: The stack consists of Rust using `crossterm` or `ratatui` for ANSI/true-color terminal rendering, compiled to `wasm32-unknown-unknown` for HTML5 Canvas execution. The primary barrier is not the app scaffold, but designing and optimizing custom mathematical shaders, procedural generation algorithms, and cellular automata that run smoothly in text grids. It demands graphics programming knowledge and procedural art generation skills.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 465 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #265 of 466 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.

  • yami · github · 2026-11-03 · 132 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • sclide · github · 2026-10-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • photon · github · 2026-10-27 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • stecyk3d · github · 2026-10-23 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • open-scrantic · github · 2026-10-16 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • fadescii · github · 2026-09-13 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Horizon · hn · 2026-03-17 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • WAMR3D · ph · 2026-11-13 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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