Pumpkins.sh
claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world
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Details
- External ID
- 49965227
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pumpkins.sh
- Website domain
- pumpkins.sh
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 29
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.735632183908046
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
What if....there was a near infinite pumpkin patch where anyone can claim and carve a pumpkin then show-case it to the world?Here are 1 million pumpkins. Pick one. Make it your own.Have a VR headset? Put it on and explore the patch.
Enrichment
- Niche
- custom merchandise and packaging tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- digital pumpkin carving for web users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project is a WebGL/Three.js 3D grid with basic mesh deformation/texture carving saved to a persistent backend database.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Performance impact of drawing blooms
Feature requests: Search for pumpkin name and jump to it, Occlusion culling for lit pumpkins
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 32 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 33 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 28 days after the earliest competitor.
- CarveKin · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- The Last Website · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- My Halloween Link - Haunted House 2026 · ph · 2026-10-04 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Halloween Amazon gift card · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Sandboxels.cc Independent Guide · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Chonk Finder · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- PlayerCast VR · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- WorldSprout · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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