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Show HN: An infinite shared pixel art canvas

6 pointsby seangransee7 months ago
This is a fun project I’ve been slowly improving over the past few years. It started as a fun technical experiment and has grown into a canvas where over 300 million pixels have been placed, one pixel at a time.<p>It’s a single realtime canvas shared by everyone around the world. And when I say it’s global, I truly mean that. Communities have popped up everywhere from Germany to Japan to Azerbaijan. It even had quite the following in China before it got banned by the Chinese firewall.<p>I call it an “infinite canvas”, but of course, infinite values don’t exist in computing. See if you can find the edge ;)

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seangransee7 months ago
Happy to answer questions about this project!<p>I&#x27;ve been using this project as a way to play with tech I don&#x27;t typically use day-to-day in my paid work.<p>It&#x27;s gone through a bunch of iterations. It started almost entirely on AWS serverless services (Lambda, Dynamo, etc). That ended up being ridiculously expensive for this use case, so now it&#x27;s a boring Go app on a cheap VPS talking to Postgres.<p>The mobile app has also gone through some iterations, starting as a wrapper around a web app (CapacitorJS), and is now using React Native instead.
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bambielli7 months ago
Hello Sean, long time listener, first time commenter. Huge fan of your work.