Asciitopia
a library of animated ASCII art patterns
Details
- External ID
- 48914428
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Asciitopia
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I wanted an ASCII animation for one of my projects but couldn't find any collection or library for anything like that, so I cooked this up over a weekend with some ideas, inspiration and Claude.Feel free to add your own patterns!
Enrichment
- Theme
- code-driven AI video and animation
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- animated ascii art library
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Asciitopia is a curated frontend library and showcase of animated text/ASCII art patterns using standard JavaScript/HTML canvas and string manipulation.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 133 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #130 of 134 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 258 days after the earliest competitor.
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- awesome-opus-animation · github · 2026-09-24 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor · hn · 2026-01-13 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- DoodleMeme · hn · 2026-07-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- An ASCII table that doesn't hurt your eyes · hn · 2025-12-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- drawn-by-code · github · 2026-09-24 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Pixels.style · hn · 2026-01-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- awesome-3d-prompts · github · 2026-09-23 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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