CutPlanner
Turn steel cut lists into bar-by-bar saw plans
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CutPlanner helps fabricators and steel detailers turn part lengths and quantities into bar-by-bar cutting plans. Enter or import a cut list, set stock lengths, saw kerf and end trim, then see what to cut from each bar and what remains. CutPlanner also includes sheet nesting and wood panel layout tools.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: mechanical engineering and fabrication tools · 39 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Manufacturing
- Vertical SaaS
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Productivity
- Tech
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Could you build this?
Partial Bar-by-bar cut lists with kerf and stock lengths are a known algorithm that vibe coding can handle, but sheet nesting is a harder optimization problem needing specialist algorithm work.
What it would actually take: The stack is a web or desktop UI with CSV import and a cutting-stock solver, typically first-fit-decreasing or a bin-packing heuristic with kerf and trim handling. Good sheet nesting requires advanced 2D packing algorithms such as no-fit polygon or genetic/local-search methods, which need operations-research expertise. Domain validation with real fabricators is also needed to make the output shop-usable.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 83 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 84 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 118 days after the earliest competitor.
- CutOptimizer · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- RollCut Panel · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- ISKRIT Rebar Cutting Calculator · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- CutSlate · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- RollCut · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Fabora Steel Tools · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Flasta Cut · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Rebar Cutting Optimizer · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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