CellCount
Free AI cell counting from a hemocytometer photo
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Details
- External ID
- 1272515
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- CellCount
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Productivity, Analytics, SaaS
Description
Photograph a hemocytometer with your phone or microscope camera. CellCount finds the grid (or you place the crossings), counts live and dead cells, and gives cells/mL and viability in seconds. Free plan, no card.
Enrichment
- Niche
- computational biology and chemistry software
- Vertical
- Healthcare
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- automated cell counting from hemocytometer photos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The web UI and basic computer vision wrappers are simple, but reliably segmenting overlapping microscopic cells, detecting viability stains (e.g., Trypan blue), and resolving optical artifacts requires custom CV model fine-tuning.
What it would actually take: The architecture would consist of a Next.js frontend with canvas/WebGL tools for manual grid adjustment and a Python/PyTorch inference backend running a fine-tuned object detection/segmentation model (such as YOLOv8 or Mask R-CNN trained on hemocytometer cytology images). The main challenge is achieving lab-grade counting accuracy across varying smartphone microscope resolutions, focus depths, debris, and clumping, which requires a specialized annotated dataset.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 32 days after the earliest competitor.
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- SmartCheck · ph · 2026-09-18 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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