We built a tool that generates 3D objects with editable, separate parts
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HN · launched May 8, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 40%) · 1 view
Niche: 3d asset and model generators · 84 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -55% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
No Generating segmentable, part-aware 3D meshes requires novel generative 3D diffusion or representation learning research far beyond standard API plumbing.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires training or adapting multi-view 3D generative diffusion models or implicit neural representations (NeRF/Gaussian Splatting converted to mesh) with semantic part segmentation heads. Structuring generative outputs into semantically distinct, cleanly rigged or editable boundary-representation/mesh hierarchies requires extensive GPU compute clusters and specialized 3D generative modeling research expertise.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: articulation for interactive world building
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1945 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #758 of 1946 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 191 days after the earliest competitor.
- KaiNinja · github · 2026-09-15 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- My tool generates 3D objects composed of separate, functional parts · hn · 2026-05-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Tetris3D · github · 2026-10-06 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- meshybench · github · 2026-09-20 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- kaamos · github · 2026-10-25 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- sam3d-part · github · 2026-09-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- blender-asset-studio · github · 2026-10-19 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Effigy · github · 2026-10-14 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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