isometric.nyc
giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
Details
- External ID
- 46721802
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- isometric.nyc
- Website domain
- cannoneyed.com
- Launched
- Jan. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1325
- Upvotes percentile
- 1.0
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN! I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents.I didn't write a single line of code.Of course no-code doesn't mean no-engineering. This project took a lot more manual labor than I'd hoped!I wrote a deep dive on the workflow and some thoughts about the future of AI coding and creativity:http://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- isometric pixel art map of nyc
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The creator explicitly confirms this was built using AI coding agents and image generators; an interactive web map displaying pixel art tiles is a standard frontend viewer.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: eDuShi (E都市) - Chinese city mapping platform, Habbo Hotel, Bing Maps oblique imagery, Minecraft city building
Concerns raised: AI training on existing work without consent raises ethical issues, Overhyped AI narrative overshadows technical achievement, Documentation/historical preservation concerns with digital projects
Feature requests: Complete map coverage (e.g., rest of Staten Island), Pixel-snapping to perfect grid alignment
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 52 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 68 days after the earliest competitor.
- isometric.nyc/snow · hn · 2026-02-23 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Isopolis · hn · 2026-08-03 · 350 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- NYC MapTap · hn · 2026-09-08 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- bikemap.nyc · hn · 2026-01-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Pixels.style · hn · 2026-01-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets · hn · 2026-08-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Strata · hn · 2026-07-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- ZenPaint, a pixel-perfect MacPaint recreation for the browser · hn · 2025-11-25 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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