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HN · launched Nov 3, 2025 · 56 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: color grading and picker software · 30 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a straightforward static web utility that converts HEX colors to Lab/RGB space and calculates Delta E Euclidean distance against a curated dataset of paint colors.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Army Painter paint range, Citadel paints, Vallejo paints, Ph Martin watercolor dyes, IONIC paints
Concerns raised: RGB to paint color matching is fundamentally impossible, Metamerism and color perception affected by surrounding colors, Paint appearance varies by lighting conditions and room context, Craft store vs artist grade paints differ in pigment quality and lightfastness, Color depends on undercoat, number of coats, gloss level, and light source
Feature requests: Add Army Painter and Citadel paint ranges, Add artist grade/professional paint brands beyond craft store paints, Document methodology for how colors were obtained and accuracy level, Integrate affiliate links for Amazon to monetize
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 288 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #39 of 289 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- Compare Paint Colors · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Color Palette Generator - 17 Schemes · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Online Free CMYK to Pantone Converter · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Paintrz · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net · hn · 2026-03-14 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Image Color Extractor - 12 HEX Codes · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Paint Color Mixer · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- HexColor Pro · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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