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Penmentor

Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher

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HN · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 66 upvotes (top 17%)

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a UI that uploads a photo of handwritten math and sends it to a vision-capable LLM API with a teacher-style prompt, which is a thin wrapper around an existing model.

Discussion

7 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: only tailored to Arch Linux and i3wm

Feature requests: support other LLM provider APIs, support macOS and Windows

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 409 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #85 of 410 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 354 days after the earliest competitor.

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More details
External ID
50167604
Company
n/a
Product
penmentor
Website domain
github.com
Cohort
n/a
Upvotes percentile
0.83
All tags
n/a
AI summary
ai grading of handwritten math work
Manually corrected
No