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Products that do what I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display does

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/

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1000000000.art▲95
First massively participatory art project
2020
2BA
Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art▲537
2023 · eliot.blog
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1-bit.day▲204
Daily pixel art challenge
2025
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Buy a Pixel▲320
Get yourself a place in the history of Internet
2023
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Everyone Draw▲258
Draw art with people around the world on an infinite canvas
2024
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Nifty Pixels▲213
Draw and sell pixel art NFTs in seconds
2021
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Dixel▲118
Draw to earn from 16x16 PixelFi collectible NFTs
2022
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Pixel Icons▲235
6,500 unique icons designed for perfection 🚀
2018
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266 Free Icons▲184
Pixel-perfect icons dedicated for UI and wireframes
2020
10IB
I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python▲214
It requires no registration, no installation, and no configuration. Just run it on any computer and start drawing freely.
2025 · github.com
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24HourHomepage▲262
A 24-hour playful experiment in art and time
2021
12AC
A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored▲69
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 The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported.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
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Render a House▲157
Create instant beautiful photos of your project
2024
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Pixellate▲102
A simple and easy-to-use pixel art creator with offline mode
2021
15A4
Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop▲142
2017 · artpip.com
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Pixel Art Together by Liveblocks▲165
Create pixel art live with friends
2022
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Vectary Photon▲181
One-click photorealistic rendering for 2D designers
2019
18IM
I made a pixel art editor for Windows desktop▲161
2024 · lightcube.art
19AP
A pattern generator with 1300 shapes and 300 dpi▲112
2021 · tool.graphics
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Pixel Perfect Handbook▲176
A comprehensive handbook on digital design
2014
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PixelMe▲137
Make your 8bit pixel avatar in no time
2022
22MT
My Tizen multiplayer drawing game flopped, but then hit 100M drawings▲39
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
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PIXEL▲45
Make a Pixel
2025
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Pixel Art Studio▲86
A purpose-built drawing tool for pixel artists
2017

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