x-ambient
Ambient light from hovered X timeline photos and videos, across the whole page.
This is 1 of 136 launches in desktop creative and media editing tools — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
268 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1398295940
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- x-ambient
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 54
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8383947939262473
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop creative and media editing tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ambient lighting effect for hovered media on x
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward browser extension that extracts dominant colors from hovered video/image elements on Twitter/X and dynamically applies CSS box-shadows or ambient backdrop filters.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 268 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #60 of 269 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
- Ambient · github · 2026-09-13 · 233 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- surface-field · github · 2026-09-25 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- LivelyAirRaidAlert · github · 2026-09-15 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ComfyUI-Luori-Sunset · github · 2026-09-16 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- AuroraFlow- · github · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- bilibili-ambilight · github · 2026-09-28 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Edgy · hn · 2026-09-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Okinami_YASB · github · 2026-09-12 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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- No other launches for this product.
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