CADara
I made an open-source in-browser CAD
Details
- External ID
- 48070022
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- CADara
- Website domain
- cadara.app
- Launched
- May 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 37
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8109854604200323
- 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
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- in-browser cad for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Writing a full CAD kernel and interactive constraint solver in the browser demands specialized geometric modeling and computational geometry expertise.
What it would actually take: A browser-based CAD system requires a boundary representation (B-Rep) modeling kernel (or compiling OpenCASCADE to WebAssembly), an integrated geometric constraint solver, and efficient WebGL/WebGPU rendering pipelines. It demands deep mathematical domain knowledge in NURBS, topology, mesh generation, and numerical methods for non-linear constraint solving.
Discussion
13 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: SolidWorks, Fusion 360, OnShape, Claude Code
Concerns raised: UI icons may have copyright issues, Competing with established CAD giants seems impossible, Occasional UI bugs and incorrect tool grouping, Cannot replace professional CAD software for engineering students
Feature requests: Support for mesh and curved face manipulation, Import sldprt/f3d files without losing history, Improve interoperability with other CAD formats
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 894 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #182 of 895 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 191 days after the earliest competitor.
- SindriCAD · hn · 2026-08-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Open-source CAD in the browser (DXF-native, no install) · hn · 2026-04-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor · hn · 2026-01-13 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- rovar · github · 2026-09-26 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- OCR Buddy: local browser OCR for code, formulas (LaTeX) and tables · hn · 2026-07-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- A Haskell programmable-CAD environment, in the browser with WASM · hn · 2026-07-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- taiga-s1 · github · 2026-09-26 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- adobe-illustrator-menu · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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