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Products that do what Ideore does
Thought, unfolding: a canvas that never loses an idea
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Hey HN, I want to share a personal project: I made a tiny pen-plotted book for my wife. I did everything myself—drawings (with some help from Midjourney), plotting, cutting, and binding. I even used a 3D printer to make a helper tool. It's absolutely over-engineered, but I enjoyed it a lot. Multi-disciplinary projects, especially those with a physical output, are a lot of fun for me. The post covers the process in detail, but if you're interested in anything specific, let me know. Cheers!
2025 · muffinman.io
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Subgrapher▲90P2P desktop app for building, browsing, & sharing knowledge
Apr 2026 · thetrustcommons.com
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It's our new text-to-image model: a 9.3B single-stream diffusion transformer trained entirely from scratch. We focused heavily on controllability through structured JSON prompts, with strong text rendering, spatial awareness through bounding box guidance, and color palette control. It has the best text rendering of any open-weight model we've tested so far, and the NF4 quantized checkpoint runs on a single 24GB GPU. For more technical details and examples see our blog post: https://ideogram.ai/blog/ideogram-4.0/ We will be happy to answer any questions :)
Jun 2026 · github.com
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So I've been working on this app for a very long time now. Started off by wanting an app that separates long form notes from short form notes visually and keeps everything organized on a canvas. The app features: -Sticky notes for quick, small notes and A4 notes for long form documents -A quick mode that uses local storage to quickly open the app and jot down a thought on the canvas -A PDF export option that exports your notes into 3 custom designed PDF styles -Visual hierarchy to replicate file structure instead of a linear fashion, where your files are notes, stacks are folders and labels…
Jul 2026 · passinote.app
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I got the idea of [mindmap.so](http://mindmap.so/) out of my own frustration of managing my personal notes in Notion and Miro in parallel. I have built it 3 months back on top of excalidraw, posted it in Reddit a couple of times, and never looked back (was using it only for personal use). Little did I know that the small and nimble tool that I created has crossed 2000+ users (was so surprised when I saw the dashboard last week). It was all organic and word of mouth . Having 2000+ users trusting a product is no easy feat. That’s when I thought may be I should put some more…
2024 · mindmap.so
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Napkinbook is a smart canvas for collaboration, sharing, and discovering insights. I think of it as a more computational version of Excalidraw or Miro: a flexible canvas where you can think, build, present, and collaborate without constantly moving between different tools. Since my first Show HN, I’ve added: * Much better mobile support * AI-assisted brainstorming * Presentation decks with animations * Shareable reports * Live collaboration * Actual Git history The goal is to make the canvas itself the workspace, rather than treating whiteboarding, presenting, reporting, and version history…
23d ago · desk.napkinbook.com
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Hi HN, We launched Canvas, an AI-powered visual workspace for furniture shopping: onton.com/surfaces. It's early, and we're trying to figure out if we're actually solving a real problem or just our own. Canvas lets you drag products from our 3M+ item catalog, upload inspiration images that auto-link to shoppable products, and generate AI room renderings. Basically trying to consolidate the nightmare of furniture shopping (Pinterest + screenshots + 15 browser tabs) into one place. The average person spends 79 days researching furniture across disconnected platforms. When I renovated my…
Nov 2025 · onton.com
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