ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal
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HN · launched May 10, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 45%) · 2 views
Niche: digital painting and drawing software · 68 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +80% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 68 launches in digital painting and drawing software →
Could you build this?
Yes Terminal user interfaces with interactive grid drawing and mouse/keyboard events are straightforward to build using standard TUI frameworks like Bubbletea or Ratatui.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1542 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #716 of 1543 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 191 days after the earliest competitor.
- AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor · hn · 2026-01-13 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- 1 Bit Pixel, pixel art editor with a CRT soul (iPad/Mac) · hn · 2026-08-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Multi-Layer ASCII Art · hn · 2026-11-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- xuan · github · 2026-09-19 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Claude Quest · hn · 2026-01-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- synth-ui · github · 2026-10-06 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- bee-gee · github · 2026-09-13 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ASCII based Figma like editor · hn · 2026-01-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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