LithoCanvas
Identify rocks, gemstones and art from one photo
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LithoCanvas is an Android app for people who collect minerals and art. Photograph a rock, gemstone, crystal or painting and it suggests what it is, with typical properties such as hardness, crystal system and luster, or style, medium and era for art. Each find goes into a private collection with your photos, notes and a voice note. No ads, data stored in the EU, 5 identifications included.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: visual scanning and appraisal apps · 63 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▲ +22% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Android
- Art
- Photography
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Could you build this?
Partial The collection app is easy, but accurate identification of minerals and art from photos needs a trained vision model on labeled data. Generic vision LLMs give rough guesses, not reliable hardness or crystal-system answers.
What it would actually take: Architecture: an Android app with on-device or cloud image classification and a collection database. The hard part is a labeled dataset of minerals and artworks, and validation of property predictions. Accuracy needs mineralogy or art-history expertise and a fine-tuned model, not just prompting.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 103 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #41 of 104 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 92 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Azora · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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