Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View
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HN · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 258 upvotes (top 4%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive 3d web simulations · 157 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The viewer and interaction are standard web mapping, but the map depends on a custom generative pipeline that repaints 3D tiles in a pixel-art style with seamless tile continuity, plus licensed 3D and cadastral data.
What it would actually take: The pipeline pulls 3D city data (Catastro, IGN, Google 3D Tiles via Cesium ion), renders fixed isometric views, and runs a fine-tuned image model tile by tile with neighbour conditioning for seams. The hard parts are training a consistent style model, keeping tiles seamless at city scale, and budgeting for GPU generation. That requires computer vision and generative-model expertise plus significant compute.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Isometric NYC
Concerns raised: not really pixel art, looks diffusion-generated, blurred, no distinguishable pixels, streetcar tracks fade out, no streetcars visible, missing tents in Plaça de l'Ajuntament, narrow medieval street not visible
Feature requests: commute-time or transport infrastructure game, more angles of specific places, details on how it was made
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 142 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 143 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 356 days after the earliest competitor.
- Isopolis · hn · 2026-08-03 · 350 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- isometricworld · github · 2026-11-09 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- 3d-city · github · 2026-11-03 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- inkline-town · github · 2026-10-12 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- minamo · github · 2026-10-24 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Strata · hn · 2026-07-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Mira, AI Walking Tours · hn · 2026-10-11 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- isometric-cities · github · 2026-11-12 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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