ASCII-VISION
Turn any website and video into live hacker-style ASCII
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A free, open-source Chrome extension that puts any page in hacker mode: text becomes glowing terminal text, and images and videos turn into live ASCII art. Four color modes, adjustable detail, one-click on/off. Runs fully on your device.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: browser extensions · 257 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Design Tools
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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More like this: all 257 launches in browser extensions →
Could you build this?
Yes A Chrome extension that converts page text and live video into ASCII uses canvas and standard extension APIs, so it is a well-scoped client-side project.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 417 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 418 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
- ASCII Player · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- ASCII Studio · ph · 2026-10-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Image to ASCII · ph · 2026-09-14 · 100 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- ascii-portrait · github · 2026-10-11 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- ASCII Studio - Photo Editor · ph · 2026-10-30 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ASCII Art Generator · ph · 2026-11-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ascii · github · 2026-10-07 · 750 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- fadescii · github · 2026-09-13 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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