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Phantom UI

Skeleton that measures your real DOM (Web Component, 8kb)

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HN · launched Apr 8, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 72%) · 0 views

Niche: ui component libraries · 312 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -38% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes Phantom UI is a small, standalone Web Component library that inspects DOM dimensions to generate matching placeholder skeleton elements.

Discussion

8 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Elements with no dimensions get skipped, Dynamic elements without initial size not handled

Feature requests: Manual sizing override attributes (data-shimmer-width/height), React component naming in CamelCase instead of kebab-case

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 964 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #695 of 965 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 155 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Humanoid.js · hn · 2026-04-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • VoxCSS · hn · 2025-12-03 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • calamansi-ui · github · 2026-09-16 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Ghostty-Web · hn · 2025-11-26 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Generative UIs for the Web (Experimental) · hn · 2026-01-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Kiln · hn · 2026-11-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • dinglecraft · github · 2026-10-09 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • plush-ui · github · 2026-11-11 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.49

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