Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille?
Details
- External ID
- 46551065
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille?
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 26
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6903820816864296
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- consumer gift cards and rewards
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- braille image conversion
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Converting webcam video frames to Braille ASCII characters is a classic client-side canvas brightness thresholding script mapping 2x4 pixel blocks to Unicode Braille patterns.
Discussion
15 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Monarch dynamic tactile display, 3D printing for tactile graphics, Wooden letter blocks (historical)
Concerns raised: Low information density compared to visual resolution, Unclear how to represent 3D objects in 2D tactile form, Not actual Braille (uses dots strewn across, not standard 6/8-dot cells), Difficulty jumping between different spatial locations while reading
Feature requests: Support for UML diagrams and spatial system representations, Better documentation explaining character selection for shading
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 57 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 59 days after the earliest competitor.
- Yourself, in Every Light · hn · 2026-06-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- horizon-braille · github · 2026-09-27 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Ai-Assisted-Glasses · github · 2026-09-28 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- githappens · github · 2026-09-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- ReverseCam · hn · 2026-04-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- I made an app that blurs my screen when I slouch · hn · 2026-01-24 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Bio Glyph · hn · 2026-06-04 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- see · github · 2026-09-20 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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