I'm color blind, so I built a way to show people how I see
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Details
- External ID
- 49936621
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I'm color blind, so I built a way to show people how I see
- Website domain
- josh.ing
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28225806451612906
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
I'm color blind and for as long as I can remember, the first question people always ask me after finding out is: "what color is this?"So I thought it could be cool to build a color blind simulator where I can point my phone's camera at anything and show people live what it looks like to me.Once I built that, I thought it would be interesting to also see how other people with different vision issues see too. So there are also 20 other conditions you can experience, along with a short color blind test if you want to check your own eyes & share a link to how you see.It all runs in the browser and your camera feed never leaves your device. Thanks for checking it out
Enrichment
- Niche
- Android utilities and experimental tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- vision simulator for color blindness awareness
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Simulating color blindness and vision impairments in real time on a camera stream is accomplished with well-documented color matrix transformations and WebGL/CSS SVG shaders directly in the browser.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Inaccurate visual representation of floaters, Missing link to the project
Feature requests: Add posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) simulation, Add retinal detachment simulation, Add post-surgery gas bubble visual effect, Make floaters smaller and continuously moving
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #71 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Soul Color Test · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- SightFrame · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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- ReverseCam · hn · 2026-04-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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