Top 420 Show HN Design Tools & Creative Software (July 2026)
launchesBrowse newly launched UI design tools, media processing software, and creative platforms featured on Hacker News in July 2026. Use this list for design tooling.
Hacker News Digests — July 31, 2026
https://kandlequiz.trade— A Wordle-style daily trading challenge
https://figit.design— Open-source library to copy-paste HTML into Figma as editable layers
https://singhos.com— I built an automated productivity system (Telegram –> Notion)
https://loot.photos— I built a pokédex for anything (iPhone app)
https://ht-ml.app— HT-ML.app – Deploy HTML Artifacts from Claude Code and Codex
https://thespacesuits.com— The Spacesuits – Engineering Archive
https://expensespy.com— ExpenseSpy – AI receipt scanner that exports to Excel, built solo
https://cona.design— Cona – Recreate your room in 3D and redesign it with shoppable furniture
https://photosignal.app— I built a photography weather alert system
https://mfenx.com— Power House – a Rust/Python toolkit for verifiable computation artifacts
https://devtui.com— DevTUI – A Swiss-army app for developers
https://slopcop.adriankrebs.ch— Design Slop Cop – score how AI-generated a website looks
https://openagentloops.featherless.ai— A provider-agnostic agent loop built on ports and adapters
https://hogwarts-production.up.railway.app— Fly Through Hogwarts
https://capcat.org— Capcat – CLI/TUI to Archive Articles as Markdown and HTML (FOSS)
https://opencorp.live— I built an app to find your competitors
https://heyhalo.app— I built Halo, a private AI assistant for your Mac (free)
https://fonts.free— Fonts.Free
https://startupbar.co— StartupBar – free mutual traffic exchange for founders (Modern WebRing)
https://nodal.gg— Interactive video game recommendation engine
https://9.1-1-1.de— Quick anonymous text and file sharing over the internet
https://screenstab.com— Turn boring flat screenshots into angled tilt-shift images
https://mysatkit.com— MySat: Build Your Own Cube Satellite Kit – Your Personal CubeSat
https://margin.bhairav.ai— Margin – Turn YouTube videos into structured notes in your Google Drive
https://trispe.com— Trispe: Building an AI Prediction Exchange Without Human Traders
https://banktoledger.com— I got tired of messy PDF bank statements, so I built a RAM-only parser
https://cast-in2007.edgeone.app— Built a 2007 like video website (CastIn2007)
https://coffeechatos.com— Coffee chats are the real job market for competitive recruiting
https://emra.app— Emra – A workspace where every app you build shares one db
https://tryguildly.com— Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style)
https://termiprotocol.com— The Termi Protocol: Watch AI Coding Agents Build in 3D
https://agent-empire.products.sayantan.sh— Agent Empire: A interactive game to get started on what agent pattern to chose
https://weheartit.net— We Heart It is back
https://starts.live— Building is free now. Being wanted isn't
https://flippingbooks.org— FlipFlow FlipFlow turns PDF, Word, and images into flipbooks
https://aivideodetector.video— AI Video Detector – check whether a video may be AI-generated
https://solus.so— Visual Knowledge Canvas for Learners
https://flash-auditory-1-0.trcstudiosflashaudit.workers.dev— I built a tool to audit error density and modern PC optimization
https://videopicai.com— VideoPicAI – Create Videos and Images with AI Magic
https://ps4ds.net— Book on Probability and Statistics for Data Science with videos / code
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Key Launch Stats (Show HN Design & Creative Software — July 2026)
During July 2026, a total of 420 product launches were recorded in this category up to 2026-07-31.
Here is a quick look at launch activity and naming characteristics:
- Total Launches: 420 domains
- Busiest Launch Day: 2026-07-17 (20 launches)
- Average Domain Name Length: 8.8 characters
- Shortest Domain: vos.lol
- Longest Domain: specialitycoffeeonline.com
- Clean / Single-Word Domains: 92.9%
- Common Name Prefixes: get (8), ai (7), try (4), use (4), my (3)
- Common Keywords: ui (231), ai (123), app (91), dev (39), agent (33)
How to Use This Data
You can use this list of Hacker News and builder releases to find emerging tools, track indie projects, or connect with early-stage builders.
To browse or download the full master dataset of 15,500+ startup launches in CSV and JSON formats, visit the Launches Master Dataset.