Phantom UI
Skeleton that measures your real DOM (Web Component, 8kb)
Details
- External ID
- 47696471
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Phantom UI
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2808483290488432
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- web component skeleton that measures real dom
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 307 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #224 of 308 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 155 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Ghostty-Web · hn · 2025-11-26 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Generative UIs for the Web (Experimental) · hn · 2026-01-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- A real Omarchy Linux desktop in your browser · hn · 2026-09-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- HyperVBundle · github · 2026-09-22 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- PolyCSS · hn · 2026-05-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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