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Small teams and creators are quoted exorbitant prices like $1,800 for a simple 30-second animation, can't afford services or build it themselves, highlighting need for an accessible AI-powered motion design tool.
X5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Hello HN,I live in northern part of USA where winters are snowy. Whenever I took long trips, I always wondered what the weather along the route is going to be. For those who live in northern USA, you know weather can change frequently, so when you're traveling matters a lot, not just the route.To solve this problem for myself, I built https://navimodo.com/. NaviModo calculates the route, and then checks weather along the route based on your start time, and displays weather along the route. Change start time, and the whole thing is recalculated.I am not expecting any commercialization for this, just wanted to scratch an itch, and just did it. I have ideas for adding additional features (suggestions for when to take breaks based on bad weather, auto-suggestion of start time to avoid bad weather, etc.,) but will add more as time goes by.Any feedback is welcome!
Hacker News5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Last week SWYX nerd-sniped me into building an Open-source Dropbox.Here is Locker: the ultimate open-source Google Drive/box/Dropbox alternative - Provider agnostic (S3, R2, vercel blob, local) - BYOB (Bring your own bucket) - Virtual file system - QMD Search plugin
Hacker News5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Blender has a steep learning curve; designers, product managers, and hobbyists need simpler 3D tools for basic modeling (mockups, visualizations). Demand exists for web-based or simplified desktop 3D editor with templates. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Hacker News5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Professional 3D artists struggle with inconsistent scaling, import/export nightmares, lack of pivots, subscription-gated tools, and basic workflow blockers in ZBrush.
X5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
I built a DNS resolver that lets me use https://frontend.numa instead of localhost:5173 — auto-generated TLS certs, WebSocket passthrough, path routing. No mkcert, no nginx, no /etc/hosts.
Hacker News5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Accessible, browser-based image editing for casual creators who don't have Photoshop skills or budget. The market has matured with demand for lightweight design tools, and AI image generation/editing has made this more tractable for solo builders.
YC Graveyard19y agoToolDesign & Creative
People planning room changes need to visualize furniture layouts and color schemes before buying. AR-based design tools exist but are fragmented, expensive (Interior AI, Spacejoy), or require professional consultation. A simpler, cheaper AI tool could generate multiple design options from room photos. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Content creators struggle to find artists skilled in specific illustration styles (e.g., Sonic ASYM) who offer commercial usage rights for paid commissions, requiring NDA and backgrounds.
X5mo agoOtherDesign & Creative
Hi everyone,Gridland is a runtime + ShadCN UI registry that makes it possible to build terminal apps that run in the browser as well as the native terminal. This is useful for demoing TUIs so that users know what they're getting before they are invested enough to install them. And, tbh, it's also just super fun!Gridland is the successor to Ink Web (ink-web.dev) which is the same concept, but using Ink + xterm.js. After building Ink Web, we continued experimenting and found that using OpenTUI and a canvas renderer performed better with less flickering and nearly instant load times.We're excited to continue iterating on this. I expect a lot of criticism from the "why does this need to exist" angle, and tbh, it probably doesn't - it's really mostly just for fun, but we still think the demo use case mentioned previously has potential.- Chris + Jess
Hacker News5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Renters and budget-conscious homeowners need affordable interior design visualization. Expensive design services and fragmented apps leave a gap for AI-powered mockups from photos. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Gemini Embedding 2 can project raw video directly into a 768-dimensional vector space alongside text. No transcription, no frame captioning, no intermediate text. A query like "green car cutting me off" is directly comparable to a 30-second video clip at the vector level.I used this to build a CLI that indexes hours of footage into ChromaDB, then searches it with natural language and auto-trims the matching clip. Demo video on the GitHub README. Indexing costs ~$2.50/hr of footage. Still-frame detection skips idle chunks, so security camera / sentry mode footage is much cheaper.
Hacker News5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Web developers struggle with the complexity of embedding and handling 3D models on websites, making it hard to create interactive experiences efficiently.
X6mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Kiota ignores the usage of `required`/`nullable` in OAS schemas. C# properties are always generated as nullable. This results in unneeded noisy squiggles, as shown [here](https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/issues/3846#issuecomment-1844249797). NSwag does a better job, by performing the following translation (using the `/GenerateNullableReferenceTypes:true` switch): - OAS non-required + nullable: C# nullable - OAS required + nullable: C# nullable - OAS non-required + non-nullable: C# non-nullable, unless combined with the `/GenerateOptionalPropertiesAsNullable:true` switch - OAS required + non-nullable: C# non-nullable Additionally, NSwag adds `[Newtonsoft.Json.JsonProperty(Required = ..., , NullValueHandling = ...)]` on the generated properties, which results in client-side serialization errors (thus avoiding a server roundtrip on invalid input). Example component schema ```json "exampleComponent": { "required": [ "requiredNonNullableReferenceType", "requiredNullableReferenceType", "requiredNullableValueType", "requiredValueType" ], "type": "object", "properties": { "nonNullableReferenceType": { "type": "string" }, "requiredNonNullableReferenceType": { "type": "string" }, "nullableReferenceType": { "type": "string", "nullable": true }, "requiredNullableReferenceType": { "type": "string", "nullable": true }, "valueType": { "type": "integer", "format": "int32" }, "requiredValueType": { "type": "integer", "format": "int32" }, "nullableValueType": { "type": "integer", "format": "int32", "nullable": true }, "requiredNullableValueType": { "type": "integer", "format": "int32", "nullable": true } }, "additionalProperties": false } ```
GitHub2y agoToolDesign & Creative
Product designers and teams struggle with the tedious gap between conceptual ideas and implementable designs. The current workflow requires multiple tools (Figma, design systems, documentation), manual iteration, and back-and-forth communication with developers about specs and consistency. This delays product launches and frustrates both designers who want faster experimentation and developers waiting for clear, coded-ready assets.
Product Hunt6mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Building and maintaining design systems is overly complicated and time-intensive for design teams.
X6mo agoToolDesign & Creative
We're at ~15 people and things that used to "just work" are starting to crack. Decisions that everyone used to know about are getting lost. New hires take forever to ramp up. Different teams are building on different assumptions. For those who've been through this stage, what actually broke first? And what did you do about it?
Hacker News6mo agoToolDesign & Creative
PicToSticker (pictosticker.com) transforms your photos into cute custom stickers. Simple consumer tool loved by 124+ creators. Targets the creator economy and personal expression market.
X6mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Reverie is a GenAI-powered video storyboarding tool. Helps video creators plan scenes, generate visual references, and organize their narrative before shooting. Reduces the gap between creative vision and production.
X6mo agoToolDesign & Creative