ascii-deepsea
A living deep-sea aquarium drawn in ASCII: whales, orcas, sharks, octopus, jellyfish and fish schools, each with a behaviour engine based on how the real animal lives. Built on ascii-sharks.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 97%) · 0 views
Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- artificial-life
- ascii-animation
- ascii-art
- boids
- canvas
- generative-art
- +3 more
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Could you build this?
Yes This is an ASCII-art animation with simple per-species behavior rules. It is a self-contained creative coding project that a solo builder can vibe-code.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 52 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- dsh-ascii-ocean · github · 2026-10-21 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Cachalot · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Aquarium_Espresso · github · 2026-09-12 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- PixelTank Aquarium · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- abyssal-garden · github · 2026-11-12 · 149 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- living-ascii · github · 2026-11-04 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- MOKIZEN · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- deepseek-whale-girl · github · 2026-09-28 · 229 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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