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24 alternatives to I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
I built the world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it. It draws a single pixel at a time and takes 30-60 minutes to complete a single image. Anyone can participate in the project by voting for the next image to be drawn, and submitting images. https://kilopx.com/
A wooden pixel display constructed over six years renders images one pixel at a time, requiring 30 to 60 minutes per complete image. Participants worldwide can submit images and vote on which image should be drawn… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Recently, we wanted to find a way to display Generative AI art in our office at Photoroom.
2023 · eliot.blog · its alternatives →
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Everyone Draw▲258Draw art with people around the world on an infinite canvas
2024 · everyonedraw.com · its alternatives →
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24HourHomepage▲262A 24-hour playful experiment in art and time
2021 · 24hourhomepage.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve been building absurd, mostly useless web projects for fun — and I publish one every month at absurd.website. These are deliberately non-functional, weird, sometimes funny, sometimes philosophical — and usually totally unnecessary. Some examples: Sexy Math — solve math problems to reveal erotic images. Trip to Mars — a real-time simulation that takes 7 months to finish. Add Luck to Your e-Store — add a waving cat widget to boost your conversion via superstition. Microtasks for Meatbags — the future: AI gives prompts, humans execute. Invisible Lingerie — it’s sexy. And invisible. Artist…
2025 · absurd.website · its alternatives →
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Pixel Icons▲2356,500 unique icons designed for perfection 🚀
2018 · pixelicons.com · its alternatives →
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266 Free Icons▲184Pixel-perfect icons dedicated for UI and wireframes
2020 · tetrisly.com · its alternatives →
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It requires no registration, no installation, and no configuration. Just run it on any computer and start drawing freely.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You can host this yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out…
2022 · pixel.vkoskiv.com · its alternatives →
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Render a House▲157Create instant beautiful photos of your project
2024 · renderahouse.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · blog.framelabs.eu · its alternatives →
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2017 · artpip.com · its alternatives →
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PixelStick▲81create incredible light paintings using the pixelstick!
2015 · thepixelstick.com · its alternatives →
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Pixellate▲102A simple and easy-to-use pixel art creator with offline mode
2021 · pixelated.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Create pixel art live with friends
2022 · pixelart.liveblocks.app · its alternatives →
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Shelf-Life▲80Liven up your home page by adding little pixel-art objects
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · tool.graphics · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built the first version of Drawize back in late 2016 specifically for a Samsung Tizen OS app contest. I crunched and built the whole thing (including the real-time multiplayer engine) in under 4 weeks. It didn’t win anything in the contest. Since it was built with web tech anyway, I published it on the open web in early 2017 just to see what would happen. It started living its own life, and today — 8 years later — the database processed the 100,000,000th drawing. On the busiest days it’s been 30k+ active users, and storing 100M drawings currently sits at ~3.16 TB. The milestone…
Dec 2025 · drawize.com · its alternatives →
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