My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app
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HN · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 733 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: procedural map and craft pattern generators · 85 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▲ +100% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 85 launches in procedural map and craft pattern generators →
Could you build this?
Yes The listing has no description and the scraped text is only page boilerplate, but a personal embroidery-design app is mostly file handling and a UI, and open-source parsers exist for common embroidery formats.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 111 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 378 days after the earliest competitor.
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- zigzag · github · 2026-10-30 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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- I built a microlearning app to learn personal finance · hn · 2026-06-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I built a free kids coloring site with AI · hn · 2025-11-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- I made an app full of bugs · hn · 2026-05-11 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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