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isometric.nyc

giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

Details

External ID
46721802
Source
HN
Company
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Product
isometric.nyc
Website domain
cannoneyed.com
Launched
Jan. 22, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
1325
Upvotes percentile
1.0
Tags
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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.

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