Ghostty and Watercolors
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HN · launched Feb 22, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal emulators and utilities · 106 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 106 launches in terminal emulators and utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a collection of static GLSL fragment shader files designed to be loaded by Ghostty's custom background shader option.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: iBackgroundColor undeclared identifier error on ghostty 1.2.3
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 235 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #112 of 236 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 111 days after the earliest competitor.
- watercolor-playground · github · 2026-10-06 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Ghostty-Web · hn · 2025-11-26 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- memory-fading-into-watercolor · github · 2026-09-27 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Find matching acrylic paints for any HEX color · hn · 2025-11-03 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- watercolor-skill · github · 2026-09-28 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- ghostty-config · github · 2026-09-27 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- literary-visual-card · github · 2026-09-10 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Blond-Peter-Pan-nxnative-improvent · github · 2026-11-10 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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