AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor
Details
- External ID
- 46609389
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor
- Website domain
- littlebird.com.au
- Launched
- Jan. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 53
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.80566534914361
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based ascii art editor
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 777 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #169 of 778 (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 0.76
- ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal · hn · 2026-05-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine · hn · 2026-06-20 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- ASCII based Figma like editor · hn · 2026-01-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- CADara · hn · 2026-05-08 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Asciimap · hn · 2026-03-31 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- adobe-illustrator-menu · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- A creative coding library for making art with desktop windows · hn · 2026-01-19 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.55
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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