Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Fisheye Placebo
Through the distorted lens I found a cure.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Fisheye Placebo launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Beautiful effects crafted from optically captured elements.
2015 · lensdistortions.com · its alternatives →
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Your perspective transforms your situation
2016 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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“The eyewear industry is kind of messed up”
2016 · dfkfj8j276wwv.cloudfront.net · its alternatives →
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Algorithms simulate the effect of a real glass lens
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Diplopia▲62Using Oculus Rift to cure lazy-eye by playing a game.
2014 · enter-productkey.com · its alternatives →
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Lens Distortion▲101Effects for photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists
2019 · lensdistortions.com · its alternatives →
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freaking awesome self improvement/motivational book
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Last summer there was an Ask HN[1] about a Nature article that said bluring the blue and green color channels on screen may be good against early myopia development. The OP wanted such software and there was none available. So I quit my job and implemented this software, did a short video with a 3D artist about it. Turns out marketing is expensive, so I made an open source browser extension version too. How it works? There is a small neural network on the retina that tries to detect if the eye is far-sighted(most people are born far-sighted), and it is producing dopamine to slow or increase…
2024 · refractify.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…
2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →
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7 Reasons why your other diets fail
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
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Reclaim your focus, memory, and joy in just 3 weeks
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Cynical lists of 50 ways to lose glasses
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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