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Show HN: Brood,image-first AI visual canvas for devs

https://github.com/kevinshowkat/brood

Brood is a promptless, reference-first AI visual canvas for developers. Instead of wiring node graphs or writing long prompts, you import 1–3 reference images and run visual “abilities” directly on canvas. Brood keeps the workflow image-first and model/provider-flexible. What it does now: - Single-image actions: diagnose, recast, variations, background edits, crop - Two-image actions:...

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:06PM (#46955248)
https://streamable.com/fcy9sg

I'm working on an images-as-first-class editor that makes opinionated calls on models used depending on your goal (Brood). Sort of like: what would happen if we treated images as an engineering problem.

Starcraft-themed because why not. Professionally have a background in product and data science so it's been fun to leverage coding tools for it :)

Show HN: Brood– an image-first design tool for iterating on visual ideas

https://github.com/kevinshowkat/brood

Demo: https://streamable.com/fcy9sgBrood is a macOS desktop app for iterating on visual ideas where the canvas image is the primary state and text is optional. The UI is an RTS-style tool palette: you pick an operation and apply it to regions of the canvas.Under the hood, Brood routes each step to an image model/tool (Gemini, OpenAI, Flux) and runs a lightweight policy step that looks at the...

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Not quite social media in the standard sense, but we've been working on https://wager.town -- a free-to-play "wagering game" that acts essentially as an open-ended prediction market. Limited to sports-fans so it's pretty niche, but our Discord feels nice and communal which was our goal.
Re:PWA Store on Sunday April 26, 2020 @03:54AM (#22985393)
We have Stripe integrated on our PWA (superjumbo.tv), and have dozens of paying customers in our first few weeks of launch.

Stripe integrates with Google Pay, so not as janky as you might imagine...

Re:PWA Store on Sunday April 26, 2020 @03:52AM (#22985389)
shameless plug, give our PWA a whirl! superjumbo.tv

(we're a daily prediction platform with cash prizes - think of us like a hybrid between HQ trivia, a sportsbook, and Jeopardy)

Re:Integrate PWAs into Native Sharing UIs with Workbox on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:20AM (#21999169)
Plugging my company's PWA we recently shipped, with decent growth: http://superjumbo.tv. I was skeptical about going the PWA route for some of the reasons listed below (weird iOS restrictions, lack of Firefox support), but for our use-case I'm extremely happy with the results.