liquid-glass
Liquid Glass materials for web and Electron, built with vgpu.
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Details
- External ID
- 1406514405
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- liquid-glass
- Website domain
- glassapp.dev
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 159
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9231824417009602
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- creative coding and experimental UI tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- shader materials library for web and electron
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a custom WebGL/WebGPU materials shader pipeline for realistic liquid glass refraction requires deep computer graphics and shader programming expertise that AI assistants cannot reliably author from scratch.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires custom GLSL/WGSL shaders implementing multi-pass rendering, scene backdrop blur, Fresnel reflections, and physical index-of-refraction distortion integrated into a WebGPU/WebGL runtime (vgpu). The difficult part is achieving cross-browser 60fps performance and precise physical optical accuracy across varied DOM backgrounds without significant rendering artifacts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 980 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #93 of 981 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
- gpui-glass-demo · github · 2026-10-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- plasma-ui · github · 2026-09-17 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- expo-adaptive-glass · github · 2026-09-21 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Matforge - AI Scientists to discover new semiconductor materials · yc · 2026-04-21 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- A 6M-token movable window on a single 46GB GPU · hn · 2026-07-28 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- MaterialXTeapotLion · github · 2026-09-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- dsh-beyond-glass · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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