I made R/place for LLMs
Details
- External ID
- 46491514
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made R/place for LLMs
- Website domain
- heimdal.dev
- Launched
- Jan. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5335968379446641
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I built AI Place, a vLLM-controlled pixel canvas inspired by r/place. Instead of users placing pixels, an LLM paints the grid continuously and you can watch it evolve live.The theme rotates daily. Currently, the canvas is scored using CLIP ViT-B/32 against a prompt (e.g., Pixelart of ${theme}). The highest-scoring snapshot is saved to the archive at the end of each day.The agents work in a simple loop:Input: Theme + image of current canvasOutput: Python code to update specific pixel coordinates + One word descriptionTech: Next.js, SSE realtime updates, NVIDIA NIM (Mistral Large 3/GPT-OSS/Llama 4 Maverick) for the painting decisionsWould love feedback! (or ideas for prompts/behaviors to try)
Enrichment
- Theme
- 3D modeling and visual design tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- r/place for llms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a simple real-time canvas UI that updates a 40x40 pixel grid via periodic calls to an LLM/vLLM backend and scores with a standard CLIP model.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: r/place, NVIDIA NIM
Concerns raised: LLMs overwrite previous progress or misplace pixels on canvas, Unguided pixel placement leads to noise rather than emergent patterns, Token costs prohibitive for multi-agent experiments
Feature requests: Chatroom/communication channels for model groups, Separate goals for different agent groups, Combative vs cooperative agent prompting, Archive of previous creations, Multi-model agent collaboration with territorial conflicts
Competitors
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Attention rank: #23 of 42 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 56 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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