Web-based ANSI art viewer
Details
- External ID
- 47320559
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Web-based ANSI art viewer
- Website domain
- sure.is
- Launched
- March 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 29
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7902829028290282
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
My love letter to ANSI art. Full width rendering, scrolling by baud rate, text is selectable, and more.There are some example links at the top if you're feeling lucky.
Enrichment
- Theme
- typography and unicode text tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- viewer for ansi art files
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a client-side ANSI art parser and viewer using HTML5 canvas or CSS text formatting to render classic BBS art files and simulate baud rate scrolling.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: TheDraw
Concerns raised: ESC key inaccessible on mobile, Zip file upload only shows one ANSI instead of file picker, No fast scroll option on mobile
Feature requests: Show invisible text toggle, Switch between 16-color background and 8-color background with blink modes, File picker when dragging multiple ANSIs in a zip
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 28 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 29 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 102 days after the earliest competitor.
- Image to ASCII · ph · 2026-09-14 · 100 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Pixels.style · hn · 2025-12-28 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Data-anim · hn · 2026-03-14 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Ambersprite — Pixel Art Studio for iPad · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- ANSI-Saver · hn · 2026-03-07 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor · hn · 2026-01-13 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Image to pixel art · ph · 2026-09-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- ToonBliss · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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