AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor
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HN · launched Jan 13, 2026 · 53 upvotes (top 19%) · 1 view
Niche: diagramming and flowchart tools · 116 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 116 launches in diagramming and flowchart tools →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a client-side web canvas tool that maps user gestures to character grids and generates ASCII text.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Monodraw, Figma, presentation software
Concerns raised: backslashes in circles rendering incorrectly, unclear how to erase pencil tool drawings, missing basic interaction patterns
Feature requests: connect boxes with lines/arrows that stay attached when dragging, grouping objects like structured drawing programs, copy/paste duplication with Cmd/Ctrl-C and Cmd/Ctrl-V
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2081 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #410 of 2082 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 75 days after the earliest competitor.
- Box of Rain · hn · 2026-02-14 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- Multi-Layer ASCII Art · hn · 2026-11-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine · hn · 2026-06-20 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal · hn · 2026-05-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- ascii-pond · github · 2026-10-26 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- ascii · github · 2026-10-07 · 750 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- ASCII based Figma like editor · hn · 2026-01-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- canvas-browser · github · 2026-10-01 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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