Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Paint-by-numbers pixel art that 24 strangers fill in together
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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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Create pixel art live with friends
2022 · pixelart.liveblocks.app · its alternatives →
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PixelWakker▲77Inspired by pointillist painters; photos into pixel art
2015 · josephwrigley.com · its alternatives →
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Make 8-Bit Art!▲107An in-browser canvas tool for making retro art.
2014 · make8bitart.com · its alternatives →
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PixelBlock▲117Just got around to updating this to support MV3. Has been featured on HN a few times. I make this in my spare time to support user privacy. Free extension (has been for years). Mods: Would be awesome if this could hit front page so people can benefit
2014 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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An RPG with random generated elements.
2015 · play.google.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 The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported.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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Pixellate▲102A simple and easy-to-use pixel art creator with offline mode
2021 · pixelated.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hi all, This is a generative art project I worked on over the past year or so consisting of about 100 little artworks generated using P5.js. I have an overview and technical write up here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs You can play with my interactive demo and make your own here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/designer And the gallery is here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/gallery This project came about after reading a HN post about a year ago…
2022 · dannyking.uk · its alternatives →
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An excellent pixel art book
2016 · bitmapbooks.com · its alternatives →
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ekam.ink▲4576 strangers, one canvas - one hand-painted tile each
Jun 2026 · ekam.ink · its alternatives →
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2017 · 8192px.co · its alternatives →
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