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Show HN: I built a browser-based 3D modeler because I'm scared of Blender

https://app.topomaker.com/

process demo - https://i.redd.it/fbhlwsq1gcmg1.gif render demo - https://i.redd.it/smddwtryhcmg1.gif in-app demo - http://app.topomaker.com/demoAfter long stretches in 2d animation and film, recently I've been really drawn to 3d. It's closer to the way my brain thinks and I feel like it has so much power to realize cool ideas. Naturally, I kicked off a google search and fired up Blender. After...

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Show HN: 3D scenes stored in shareable URLs

https://app.topomaker.com/demo

You're looking at the demo project I've been using to build my browser-based 3d modeler and animator!Recently I thought "wouldn't it be cool if you can send these projects around with just url data" and voila. Obviously only works with smaller projects, but still pretty fun.If you make anything fun, send it in here.

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That was exactly the idea. I've tried so many times to learn Blender but its an enormous program. I think I just wanted a way to get my hands dirty with some quick wins.

Show HN: I built a browser-based 3D editor since I didn't want to learn Blender

https://app.topomaker.com/

process demo - https://i.redd.it/fbhlwsq1gcmg1.gif render demo - https://i.redd.it/smddwtryhcmg1.gifI love making creative software. I spent a few years making pixel art software but recently have gotten into 3d animation and 2d animation and really wanted a way to realize crazy ideas.Blockbench didn't feel quite right, spline is super well made but felt catered too much to just idle website...

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Show HN: Randomly discovered websites from the open internet every 60 minutes

https://randcrawl.com/

I posted this yesterday but did some work on it since. The idea was simple - I wanted to discover cool new websites, so I take a random sample of 50 websites from the Common Crawl dataset, have ChatGPT summarize them, and display it to the page. Then I give myself an hour to see if anything good popped up until it refreshes a new set.There's a lot of noise and corporation I want to figure out...

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Show HN: I built a 50 site sampler from CommonCrawl refreshing every 30 minutes

https://randcrawl.com/

I tossed this together this afternoon mostly just to validate a premise: the internet has become so heavily consolidated into a few key discovery surfaces for the common user, and I miss when you could really just get lost in it. Is there a way we can unearth pieces of it we would never actually see under normal circumstances? Wouldn't it be so cool if you could just explore the internet like...

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Re:Show HN: The HN Arcade on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:10PM (#46826974)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37164650

I made a little web game called "Not My Cows" that hackernews appreciated. I haven't done much with it since, but it was a good time!

Show HN: A frame-by-frame animation web app

https://spritepaint.com/

I've been working on this a long time, and it's been a fun learning experience. I built it with pixel art in mind, but as I beef up the timeline I think I'd like to start introducing higher resolution features like bigger canvases, brushes, brush stabilizers, etc. Thanks for checking it out everyone!

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Show HN: SpritePaint – I made an app for frame-by-frame pixel art animation

https://spritepaint.com/

I always wanted something in between Aseprite and Adobe Animate. I love pixel art and love to animate, so I've been working on this on and off over the years.Reddit always gives a ton of great feedback, and I'm unemployed at the moment so I decided to compile all the feedback I've gotten and implement as much as I can. I have some interviews coming up so I think I need to call it here, but hope...

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Show HN: Codehackerz" – Elite hackers must hack a meteor to save humanity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA1jfr-o-Xc

I made this movie with some friends back in college and love it to this day. Original description -What does the world need most? Heroes? No. Hackers. Codehackerz. In "Codehackerz" we follow the chronicles of the most super advanced computer geniuses of our age as they use their unparalleled skills to hack into a meteor that jeopardizes humanity's future.

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I love this style of game programming. It's so compact, portable, and easy to read.

Show HN: PicStacker – Layer and export images, like a dog on bacon and bananas

https://pic-stacker.netlify.app/

I’ll be honest, hackers. I really just wanted a way to layer a background-cleared picture of my sister-in-law's dog over his favorite treats—bananas and bacon—without needing to download anything crazy. So, I put this little site together over lunch.Upload: Add your photos. Pinch to Zoom: Control your layers. This feature is roughly supported on mobile, though it’s not perfect. Up: Move the...

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Re:TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken on Sunday August 20, 2023 @09:53PM (#37204660)
Pretty fun! I played a few rounds. I'd probably bust this out at a hang out if we we were looking for something to do. I got used to the UI quirks, but thanks to other commenters I had a leg up in figuring it out. I used it on desktop btw.
good catch! the cows can also just leave the window if you wait long enough. think im going to add some barriers on the side.
cows making more cows and exploding into tiny flaming space debris burgers, v2 is gonna be wild
If anyone out there on the internet sees the same, lemme know

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