Inertia
Not your Grandfathers animation editor
Details
- External ID
- 49226487
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Inertia
- Website domain
- inertiagraphics.com
- Launched
- Aug. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5309139784946236
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- animation editor
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The frontend animation timeline editor can be vibe coded, but orchestrating bi-directional runtime bridges and synchronizing native animation playheads across SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, and React via local WebSockets is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: Needs a unified cross-platform animation schema alongside custom native runtime SDKs for iOS (SwiftUI KeyframeAnimator integration), Android (Compose animation clocks), and web (React RAF-based clocks). A local WebSocket daemon links the runtime inspect/inject hooks to a desktop/web timeline GUI. Deep knowledge of multi-platform UI layout hierarchies and declarative animation internal clocks is required.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Landing page lacks animations despite being an animation tool, Landing page copy reads as generic/low-effort
Feature requests: Show HN should let submitters indicate if they built it themselves
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 813 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #377 of 814 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
- SoftMotion · github · 2026-09-09 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- motion-graphics · github · 2026-09-25 · 321 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- opus-in-motion · github · 2026-09-25 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- ClaudeAnimationBase · github · 2026-09-23 · 453 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- CustomDance · github · 2026-09-15 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- line-animation · github · 2026-09-23 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- DuoLikeAnimation · github · 2026-09-10 · 143 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- perspective-quads · github · 2026-09-25 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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