2.7KB Zig WASM
live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges
Details
- External ID
- 47563325
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- 2.7KB Zig WASM
- Website domain
- mcpaas.live
- Launched
- March 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 20
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7423124231242313
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
36 cities so far. Every visit lights up your dot.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- globe visualization of cloudflare edge executions
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While rendering a lightweight 3D globe in WASM is approachable, achieving a fully functional 2.7KB binary in Zig requires extreme low-level byte-level binary golf and custom minimal shaders.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves writing raw Zig targeting wasm32-freestanding without standard libraries, directly interfacing with WebGL APIs via minimal JS shims. The hard part is binary size optimization under 3KB, which requires manual memory layout, custom linear algebra math, and aggressive compiler stripping. A systems engineer with deep WebGL and WebAssembly bytecode optimization experience is needed.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude, Gemini, Cursor (MCP clients), Three.js (globe visualization), Cloudflare edge computing
Concerns raised: Website unclear on what product actually does/sells, Over-reliance on AI-generated content, Confusing messaging and poor homepage explanation, WASM binary scales poorly with I/O operations
Feature requests: Clearer about page or product explanation, Better homepage linking strategy
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 44 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 45 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 148 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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