A simple, auto-layout family tree generator
Details
- External ID
- 47271396
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A simple, auto-layout family tree generator
- Website domain
- familytreeeasy.com
- Launched
- March 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2853628536285363
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I built this as a side project because I found existing family tree tools either too bloated or too manual—I spent more time dragging boxes and aligning lines than actually mapping my family history.My goal was to make it instant: you just add the names, and the auto-layout engine handles the hierarchy and spacing automatically. It runs entirely in the browser and exports high-res PNG/JPGs.Would love feedback on the layout logic (especially for complex families) and the overall UI flow. Happy to answer any questions!
Enrichment
- Theme
- personal and family life organizers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- auto-layout family tree generator
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A client-side family tree diagram generator can easily be implemented using standard graph layout libraries like Dagre, D3, or GoJS combined with canvas/SVG export.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: genealogy bloatware (unnamed competitors)
Concerns raised: privacy with family history data, data persistence without cloud backend
Feature requests: JSON import/export for saving and sharing trees, add siblings without requiring a parent first, add child with only one parent (without spouse requirement)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 56 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 57 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 122 days after the earliest competitor.
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- My Family Tree · ph · 2026-09-22 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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