WWDC enamel pins inspired by developer culture
Details
- External ID
- 47415211
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- March 17, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,I’ve been attending WWDC for ~16 years, and over time I noticed that people remember the small moments more than the announcements.Since 2017, Apple has been giving collectible pins, and they became a small part of the culture.When WWDC went fully online, that disappeared.So I started designing my own enamel pins inspired by those moments.I ran campaigns in 2021 and 2024 (both produced and shipped), and just launched a new one for 2026 — currently ~75% funded after a week.Happy to answer questions about the process or manufacturing.
Enrichment
- Theme
- foldable and dual-screen UI utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- enamel pins for developer culture
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Physical enamel pins are manufactured physical merchandise requiring industrial metal casting, enameling, and physical supply chain logistics.
What it would actually take: Producing enamel pins involves vector design for industrial molds, physical die-casting with zinc alloy or iron, manual enamel color filling, electroplating, polishing, quality control, and international physical shipping logistics. None of this can be generated via software vibe coding as it is an entirely physical manufacturing process.
Discussion
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