Silly website to earn badges for touching grass
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I started giving away badges on X to people who touched grass just for fun and most of them loved it! So I decided to create a whole website about it.Process is simple: - Enter X username / url - Fetch Profile image and choose badge - Generates a badge page which can be shared with nice OG imagesThe site is deployed on Vercel, with R2 and Browser rendering for OG images and data storage.
HN · launched Dec 15, 2025 · 9 upvotes (top 54%) · 0 views
Niche: novelty and humor web apps · 188 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -53% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A simple novelty web app that takes a username, fetches an avatar, overlays badges onto dynamic OG images (e.g., using Satori/Canvas), and saves badges to a database.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 45 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 46 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- TryBadgey · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- HeyBadge · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- GotMyBadge · ph · 2026-09-25 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- github-profile-badges · github · 2026-11-02 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- PledgeBadge · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- I made open source, zero power PCB hackathon badges · hn · 2026-04-04 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- CardToPage · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Celebrating Festivals · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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