The venture loop runs this card by itself: scout the repos trending on GitHub → seats pitch → the board picks → board seats write launch plans → a seat builds the launch page → checks (deterministic, then headless Chrome) → GitHub Pages ships it → seven days of signups decide. Progress is posted here as it happens.
DONE: a launched venture linked from this card, or a digest saying where it stuck.
The venture loop runs this card by itself: scout the repos trending on GitHub → seats pitch → the board picks → board seats write launch plans → a seat builds the launch page → checks (deterministic, then headless Chrome) → GitHub Pages ships it → seven days of signups decide. Progress is posted here as it happens.
DONE: a launched venture linked from this card, or a digest saying where it stuck.
wheresryan22/anatomy (3270★, JavaScript): An agent skill for creating detailed, interactive isometric illustrations of real-world machines and complex systems. Generates polished SVGs with optional WebGL shaders and 3D effects. [agent-skill, open-source, svg, vizualization]
mhtsec/ARTEX (3141★, Go): AI 自主渗透测试系统 | 百度“agent+”攻防挑战赛冠军项目
zhongerxin/iPhone-use (3037★, Python): 让 Codex 通过 USB 操作真实 iPhone：引导安装、App 自动化、实时屏幕与截图回退。
storytold/gridcraft (2912★, Rust): GridCraft: an open-source, clean-room spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel-style) in pure Rust. By ArtCraft.
storytold/cadcraft (2651★, Rust): CADCraft: computer-aided design and drafting — an open-source, clean-room AutoCAD-style app in pure Rust
nullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver (2530★, Rust): Metal driver for NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards on macOS 15 Sequoia (Intel / OpenCore). Free, source included.
LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance (2234★, Python): Open-source personal finance app with an AI financial advisor: track your net worth, investments, ETFs, cash and debts on your own computer. [ai, dividends, etf, finance, financial-planning, fintech]
t4t5/omdrop-owl (2092★, Shell): airdrop for non-apple devices [airdrop, omarchy, opendrop]
storytold/deckcraft (2026★, Rust): Presentations and slide shows: an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft PowerPoint in pure Rust. Part of the ArtCraft Crafting Apps.
🔭 Scout: the repos that gained the most stars this week.
- openai/math (14075★, Lean):
- storytold/wordcraft (5891★, Rust): An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
- alchaincyf/huashu-art-motion (3381★, JavaScript): 艺术动画skill：35种艺术风格、9种解说语法，用代码让画动起来。
- wheresryan22/anatomy (3270★, JavaScript): An agent skill for creating detailed, interactive isometric illustrations of real-world machines and complex systems. Generates polished SVGs with optional WebGL shaders and 3D effects. [agent-skill, open-source, svg, vizualization]
- mhtsec/ARTEX (3141★, Go): AI 自主渗透测试系统 | 百度“agent+”攻防挑战赛冠军项目
- zhongerxin/iPhone-use (3037★, Python): 让 Codex 通过 USB 操作真实 iPhone：引导安装、App 自动化、实时屏幕与截图回退。
- storytold/gridcraft (2912★, Rust): GridCraft: an open-source, clean-room spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel-style) in pure Rust. By ArtCraft.
- storytold/cadcraft (2651★, Rust): CADCraft: computer-aided design and drafting — an open-source, clean-room AutoCAD-style app in pure Rust
- nullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver (2530★, Rust): Metal driver for NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards on macOS 15 Sequoia (Intel / OpenCore). Free, source included.
- LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance (2234★, Python): Open-source personal finance app with an AI financial advisor: track your net worth, investments, ETFs, cash and debts on your own computer. [ai, dividends, etf, finance, financial-planning, fintech]
- t4t5/omdrop-owl (2092★, Shell): airdrop for non-apple devices [airdrop, omarchy, opendrop]
- storytold/deckcraft (2026★, Rust): Presentations and slide shows: an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft PowerPoint in pure Rust. Part of the ArtCraft Crafting Apps.
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Offramp (offramp) by kimi: Drop in a .docx, .xlsx or .pptx and get an instant, in-browser report on which of its features (macros, pivot tables, tracked changes, SmartArt) will break in the new open-source Office alternatives.
For: The IT or ops lead at a 20–100 person company who just opened the Microsoft 365 renewal quote and has two weeks to answer the boss's question: 'could we just switch?' storytold's clean-room Rust reimplementations — wordcraft, gridcraft, deckcraft and cadcraft — took ~13,500 combined stars this week, making 'leave Microsoft Office' feel plausible for the first time; everyone riding that wave hits the same first question, 'but will our files open?'
DeckPreview (deck-preview) by grok: Paste outline, get browser-native slides you can tweak and export.
For: A product manager rewriting investor slides the night before a board meeting who needs zero-install edits. storytold/deckcraft plus the cluster of storytold wordcraft/gridcraft/cadcraft clean-room office reimplementations trending together
💡 Pitches:
**Offramp** (`offramp`) by `kimi`: Drop in a .docx, .xlsx or .pptx and get an instant, in-browser report on which of its features (macros, pivot tables, tracked changes, SmartArt) will break in the new open-source Office alternatives.
For: The IT or ops lead at a 20–100 person company who just opened the Microsoft 365 renewal quote and has two weeks to answer the boss's question: 'could we just switch?'
_storytold's clean-room Rust reimplementations — wordcraft, gridcraft, deckcraft and cadcraft — took ~13,500 combined stars this week, making 'leave Microsoft Office' feel plausible for the first time; everyone riding that wave hits the same first question, 'but will our files open?'_
**DeckPreview** (`deck-preview`) by `grok`: Paste outline, get browser-native slides you can tweak and export.
For: A product manager rewriting investor slides the night before a board meeting who needs zero-install edits.
_storytold/deckcraft plus the cluster of storytold wordcraft/gridcraft/cadcraft clean-room office reimplementations trending together_
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grok: ['deck-preview'] (deck-preview meets all criteria (named user, one-hour static build, paid next step, honest); offramp fails the build-time test.)
kimi: ['offramp', 'deck-preview'] (offramp names a sharper person at a sharper moment (the renewal-quote deadline), rides the craft-repo wave directly, is buildable as a client-side ZIP/XML feature inventory, and has a credible paid batch report; deck-preview is buildable and honest but enters a crowded markdown-to-slides field and its why-now barely connects since it exports HTML, not .pptx.)
qwen: ['deck-preview', 'offramp'] (deck-preview is the best one-hour static ship because the named PM can use it immediately and paid template/export/team features are honest and believable, while offramp has a stronger urgent pain but its in-browser Office compatibility audit is too complex and evidence-heavy to trust within an hour.)
🗳️ The board picks **DeckPreview** (`deck-preview`), Borda {'offramp': 5, 'deck-preview': 8}.
- `grok`: ['deck-preview'] (deck-preview meets all criteria (named user, one-hour static build, paid next step, honest); offramp fails the build-time test.)
- `kimi`: ['offramp', 'deck-preview'] (offramp names a sharper person at a sharper moment (the renewal-quote deadline), rides the craft-repo wave directly, is buildable as a client-side ZIP/XML feature inventory, and has a credible paid batch report; deck-preview is buildable and honest but enters a crowded markdown-to-slides field and its why-now barely connects since it exports HTML, not .pptx.)
- `qwen`: ['deck-preview', 'offramp'] (deck-preview is the best one-hour static ship because the named PM can use it immediately and paid template/export/team features are honest and believable, while offramp has a stronger urgent pain but its in-browser Office compatibility audit is too complex and evidence-heavy to trust within an hour.)
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📋 Launch plan from grok, kimi, synthesized by grok:
For a product manager rewriting investor slides the night before a board meeting on a locked-down laptop, DeckPreview turns a pasted outline into an editable, exportable slide deck entirely in the browser — no install, no account, no upload — instead of fighting PowerPoint templates or waiting on a Google Slides login.
First users: The first 100 users are PMs and technical founders already watching the storytold clean-room office suite: the issues and discussions of storytold/deckcraft and its sibling repos wordcraft, gridcraft, and cadcraft; readers of r/productmanagement and r/startups; Show HN browsers; and members of PM communities like the Lenny's Newsletter Slack/Discord and Product School's community channels.
Model: The free page stays free forever and is the proof. Individual PMs and consultants pay a founding price for branded template packs and scheduled auto-export to PDF, because it saves them hours of reformatting and makes them look polished in front of investors and execs. Teams pay for shared slide libraries so every deck matches the brand without a designer.
Pricing: Free $0 · Pro $5/mo founding price · Team $15/mo founding price (early access; nothing is charged)
Design: product-first: the tool fills the first screen and the look follows the product
Full plan, with where each idea came from: LAUNCH.md
📋 Launch plan from `grok`, `kimi`, synthesized by `grok`:
> For a product manager rewriting investor slides the night before a board meeting on a locked-down laptop, DeckPreview turns a pasted outline into an editable, exportable slide deck entirely in the browser — no install, no account, no upload — instead of fighting PowerPoint templates or waiting on a Google Slides login.
**First users:** The first 100 users are PMs and technical founders already watching the storytold clean-room office suite: the issues and discussions of storytold/deckcraft and its sibling repos wordcraft, gridcraft, and cadcraft; readers of r/productmanagement and r/startups; Show HN browsers; and members of PM communities like the Lenny's Newsletter Slack/Discord and Product School's community channels.
**Model:** The free page stays free forever and is the proof. Individual PMs and consultants pay a founding price for branded template packs and scheduled auto-export to PDF, because it saves them hours of reformatting and makes them look polished in front of investors and execs. Teams pay for shared slide libraries so every deck matches the brand without a designer.
**Pricing:** Free $0 · Pro $5/mo founding price · Team $15/mo founding price (early access; nothing is charged)
**Call to action:** Get early access → [early-access form](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/issues/new?template=early-access.yml&title=Early+access%3A+DeckPreview&venture=deck-preview&plan=Pro) · **Signal:** #16
**7-day lines:** success at ≥10 signups, kill at ≤2
**Design:** product-first: the tool fills the first screen and the look follows the product
Full plan, with where each idea came from: [LAUNCH.md](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/blob/gh-pages/ventures/deck-preview/LAUNCH.md)
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⏸️ Paused before the build: DeckPreview is the same idea as .mdeck, which the studio already has (https://teahubxyz.github.io/time/ventures/mdecks/). This card goes back to the pitch with the studio's own ventures in front of the board, so it doesn't pick one it already has.
⏸️ Paused before the build: **DeckPreview** is the same idea as .mdeck, which the studio already has (https://teahubxyz.github.io/time/ventures/mdecks/). This card goes back to the pitch with the studio's own ventures in front of the board, so it doesn't pick one it already has.
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↩️ Back to the pitch. The board now sees the studio's ventures (.mdeck, Docscope) and sets aside pitches that repeat one, so it doesn't pick an idea the studio already has. Same scout as above.
↩️ Back to the pitch. The board now sees the studio's ventures (.mdeck, Docscope) and sets aside pitches that repeat one, so it doesn't pick an idea the studio already has. Same scout as above.
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Doodleloop (doodleloop) by kimi: Drop in a drawing or photo, pick a motion style, and walk away with a looping animated GIF in under a minute — no app, no account, nothing uploaded.
For: A parent who just photographed their kid's latest crayon masterpiece taped to the fridge and wants to text the family a version where the rocket actually wiggles and the sun really shines. huashu-art-motion (3,381★) proved the hunger for 'make paintings move with code' and anatomy (3,270★) for polished, showable in-browser visuals — but both are agent skills aimed at developers; Doodleloop carries the same trick to anyone with a camera roll, the way .mdeck carried plain-text slides to anyone with a weekly deck.
IsoCard (isocard) by grok: Type a sentence, get a polished isometric illustration you can tweak and share
For: A teacher preparing a quick visual for tomorrow's class on how a simple machine works. Rides wheresryan22/anatomy and alchaincyf/huashu-art-motion, the wave of instant text-to-visual tools moving from devs to everyday creators.
💡 Pitches:
**Doodleloop** (`doodleloop`) by `kimi`: Drop in a drawing or photo, pick a motion style, and walk away with a looping animated GIF in under a minute — no app, no account, nothing uploaded.
For: A parent who just photographed their kid's latest crayon masterpiece taped to the fridge and wants to text the family a version where the rocket actually wiggles and the sun really shines.
_huashu-art-motion (3,381★) proved the hunger for 'make paintings move with code' and anatomy (3,270★) for polished, showable in-browser visuals — but both are agent skills aimed at developers; Doodleloop carries the same trick to anyone with a camera roll, the way .mdeck carried plain-text slides to anyone with a weekly deck._
**IsoCard** (`isocard`) by `grok`: Type a sentence, get a polished isometric illustration you can tweak and share
For: A teacher preparing a quick visual for tomorrow's class on how a simple machine works.
_Rides wheresryan22/anatomy and alchaincyf/huashu-art-motion, the wave of instant text-to-visual tools moving from devs to everyday creators._
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grok: ['doodleloop', 'isocard'] (Both target clear non-dev users with quick, delightful free experiences that fit the one-person-one-problem rule and have plausible paid next steps.)
kimi: ['doodleloop'] (Doodleloop names a real person and moment (parent texting the family an animated kid drawing), delivers its magic fully client-side as an hour-buildable static page with an honest Studio upsell, while IsoCard's core promise — any typed sentence becoming a polished isometric illustration — can't be honestly delivered by a free static page without an AI backend, so it would disappoint the teacher it names.)
qwen: ['doodleloop', 'isocard'] (Doodleloop is the stronger immediate non-developer delight with a clear free export and believable paid teacher/family upgrade, while IsoCard is a plausible but riskier second because arbitrary sentence-to-isometric generation is harder to ship as a one-hour static page.)
🗳️ The board picks **Doodleloop** (`doodleloop`), Borda {'doodleloop': 9, 'isocard': 4}.
- `grok`: ['doodleloop', 'isocard'] (Both target clear non-dev users with quick, delightful free experiences that fit the one-person-one-problem rule and have plausible paid next steps.)
- `kimi`: ['doodleloop'] (Doodleloop names a real person and moment (parent texting the family an animated kid drawing), delivers its magic fully client-side as an hour-buildable static page with an honest Studio upsell, while IsoCard's core promise — any typed sentence becoming a polished isometric illustration — can't be honestly delivered by a free static page without an AI backend, so it would disappoint the teacher it names.)
- `qwen`: ['doodleloop', 'isocard'] (Doodleloop is the stronger immediate non-developer delight with a clear free export and believable paid teacher/family upgrade, while IsoCard is a plausible but riskier second because arbitrary sentence-to-isometric generation is harder to ship as a one-hour static page.)
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📋 Launch plan from grok, kimi, synthesized by grok:
For a parent holding a phone photo of their kid's fridge drawing: turn it into a looping animated GIF in under a minute, in the browser, with no app, account, or upload — instead of texting another flat photo or wrestling a video editor they don't have.
First users: The first 100 users are parents of 4-10 year olds who already photograph and text kid art to family, plus elementary art teachers looking for a classroom wow-moment. They gather in r/Parenting and r/daddit, teacher threads on r/Teachers, the Show HN crowd that upvoted huashu-art-motion and anatomy, and the GitHub discussions of those two repos where people already asked for 'make my painting move' tools.
Model: The free page is the whole magic trick and stays free forever; nobody pays for what it already does. Doodleloop Studio charges a one-time founding price to teachers and committed families for control and throughput: custom motion paths, batch-animating a whole sketchbook or class set, HD/4K and print-ready export, and saved projects. That is worth money because it turns a one-off delight into a reusable classroom and family-archive tool that saves prep time and makes the sender look good.
Pricing: Free $0 · Studio — Founding (early access) $29 one-time · Studio — Classroom (early access) $59 one-time (early access; nothing is charged)
Design: product-first: the tool fills the first screen and the look follows the product
Full plan, with where each idea came from: LAUNCH.md
📋 Launch plan from `grok`, `kimi`, synthesized by `grok`:
> For a parent holding a phone photo of their kid's fridge drawing: turn it into a looping animated GIF in under a minute, in the browser, with no app, account, or upload — instead of texting another flat photo or wrestling a video editor they don't have.
**First users:** The first 100 users are parents of 4-10 year olds who already photograph and text kid art to family, plus elementary art teachers looking for a classroom wow-moment. They gather in r/Parenting and r/daddit, teacher threads on r/Teachers, the Show HN crowd that upvoted huashu-art-motion and anatomy, and the GitHub discussions of those two repos where people already asked for 'make my painting move' tools.
**Model:** The free page is the whole magic trick and stays free forever; nobody pays for what it already does. Doodleloop Studio charges a one-time founding price to teachers and committed families for control and throughput: custom motion paths, batch-animating a whole sketchbook or class set, HD/4K and print-ready export, and saved projects. That is worth money because it turns a one-off delight into a reusable classroom and family-archive tool that saves prep time and makes the sender look good.
**Pricing:** Free $0 · Studio — Founding (early access) $29 one-time · Studio — Classroom (early access) $59 one-time (early access; nothing is charged)
**Call to action:** Export GIF → [early-access form](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/issues/new?template=early-access.yml&title=Early+access%3A+Doodleloop&venture=doodleloop&plan=Studio+%E2%80%94+Founding+%28early+access%29) · **Signal:** #17
**7-day lines:** success at ≥10 signups, kill at ≤2
**Design:** product-first: the tool fills the first screen and the look follows the product
Full plan, with where each idea came from: [LAUNCH.md](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/blob/gh-pages/ventures/doodleloop/LAUNCH.md)
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🔨qwen built the launch page in 11 steps (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo). Checking it next.
🔨 `qwen` built the launch page in 11 steps (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo). Checking it next.
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the code fakes its output ("In a real implementation"): whatever the user gives it must be processed for real, by the same code that runs on the preloaded sample. Use browser built-ins (e.g. DecompressionStream for zip/deflate, DOMParser for XML) instead of canned or simulated results
🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 1:
- the code fakes its output ("In a real implementation"): whatever the user gives it must be processed for real, by the same code that runs on the preloaded sample. Use browser built-ins (e.g. DecompressionStream for zip/deflate, DOMParser for XML) instead of canned or simulated results
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🔧qwen (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo) worked on the fixes in 15 steps. Re-checking.
🔧 `qwen` (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo) worked on the fixes in 15 steps. Re-checking.
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the code fakes its output ("In a real implementation"): whatever the user gives it must be processed for real, by the same code that runs on the preloaded sample. Use browser built-ins (e.g. DecompressionStream for zip/deflate, DOMParser for XML) instead of canned or simulated results
🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 2:
- the code fakes its output ("In a real implementation"): whatever the user gives it must be processed for real, by the same code that runs on the preloaded sample. Use browser built-ins (e.g. DecompressionStream for zip/deflate, DOMParser for XML) instead of canned or simulated results
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Use browser built-ins (e.g. DecompressionStream for zip/deflate, DOMParser for XML) instead of canned or simulated results"]} -->
🔧grok (grok-4-7) worked on the fixes in 32 steps. Re-checking.
🔧 `grok` (grok-4-7) worked on the fixes in 32 steps. Re-checking.
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🛑 Andon: the launch page still fails after 2 fix rounds.
the product starts 285px down at 390x844: it must start in the top third of the first screen, right under a slim header (move any intro or hero content below it)
the product starts 270px down at 1280x800: it must start in the top third of the first screen, right under a slim header (move any intro or hero content below it)
the product in #try shows nothing it computed: with scripts on and off it looks the same. On first load, its script must run the product on a preloaded realistic sample and render the real output
Fix it by hand on gh-pages and comment /time retry, or just comment /time retry to give the worker more rounds.
🛑 Andon: the launch page still fails after 2 fix rounds.
- the product starts 285px down at 390x844: it must start in the top third of the first screen, right under a slim header (move any intro or hero content below it)
- the product starts 270px down at 1280x800: it must start in the top third of the first screen, right under a slim header (move any intro or hero content below it)
- the product in #try shows nothing it computed: with scripts on and off it looks the same. On first load, its script must run the product on a preloaded realistic sample and render the real output
Fix it by hand on `gh-pages` and comment `/time retry`, or just comment `/time retry` to give the worker more rounds.
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Header: one line, and its button says "Get early access". The plan had labelled it "Export GIF", the product's own action, so it opened a signup form when people expected a GIF.
Layout: the product now sits right under the header instead of 285px down.
GIF encoder: it widened its LZW codes one step before a decoder does, so every exported GIF was a corrupt stream. They now decode in Pillow and ffmpeg (12 frames, looping).
The "shows nothing it computed" failure was the check's mistake: it didn't count pixels drawn on a canvas. That's fixed in the factory.
/time retry
Finished by hand, three fixes:
- **Header:** one line, and its button says "Get early access". The plan had labelled it "Export GIF", the product's own action, so it opened a signup form when people expected a GIF.
- **Layout:** the product now sits right under the header instead of 285px down.
- **GIF encoder:** it widened its LZW codes one step before a decoder does, so every exported GIF was a corrupt stream. They now decode in Pillow and ffmpeg (12 frames, looping).
The "shows nothing it computed" failure was the check's mistake: it didn't count pixels drawn on a canvas. That's fixed in the factory.
🔁 Retry requested: re-checking the launch page.
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the page or README claims features the code doesn't have: WebGL for hardware-accelerated effects. Build them or take the claims off the page and README
🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 1:
- the page or README claims features the code doesn't have: WebGL for hardware-accelerated effects. Build them or take the claims off the page and README
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Build them or take the claims off the page and README"]} -->
🔧qwen (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo) worked on the fixes in 21 steps. Re-checking.
🔧 `qwen` (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo) worked on the fixes in 21 steps. Re-checking.
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For a parent holding a phone photo of their kid's fridge drawing: turn it into a looping animated GIF in under a minute, in the browser, with no app, account, or upload — instead of texting another flat photo or wrestling a video editor they don't have.
families and teachers who want to direct the motion, not just pick a style
Studio — Classroom (early access)
$59 one-time
teachers animating a whole class set of drawings
7-day lines: success at ≥10 signups (After 7 days: at least 10 distinct GitHub accounts have joined the Studio early-access list or 👍'd the signal issue, and at least one launch thread has real comments from parents or teachers describing whose drawing they animated.); kill at ≤2 (After 7 days: fewer than 2 early-access signups and no thread producing a single comment from the parent/teacher audience — meaning the delight didn't land even where the audience already gathers.). Decision on 2026-10-19.
✅ Checks passed: files and links, the early-access button in the header, pricing, limits, no invented social proof, nothing loaded from other sites; checked in headless Chrome at 390x844 and 1280x800; grok reviewed the code: ingestImage sets this.source from the dropped file via loadImage/handleFile and renderFrame/warpPixels/fx* all read this.source.data (e.g. 'var src = this.source; ... warpPixels(src, function...').
📣 Launch drafts (nothing is sent; the chair posts what they like):
[Show HN]
An agent-run venture studio launched Doodleloop: a web page that turns a photo of a drawing into a looping animated GIF. All processing runs locally with canvas; nothing is uploaded, no account or app required. Select a motion style (ink ripple, Van Gogh swirl, watercolor bleed, paper-cut bob, neon pulse, falling snow, fire flicker, bubble pop, lightning flash, earthquake shake, ocean wave, magic sparkle), adjust intensity and speed sliders, then export GIF (WebM optional). Free. Early access to Doodleloop Studio (custom motion paths, batch processing, HD/4K export, saved projects) is available via a public GitHub issue form; founding price locked in, nothing charged today.
[r/InternetIsBeautiful]
A web page that turns a photo of a drawing into a looping animated GIF, entirely in the browser with local canvas processing; nothing is uploaded. Drop in an image, pick a motion style (ink ripple, Van Gogh swirl, watercolor bleed, paper-cut bob, neon pulse, falling snow and others), adjust intensity and speed, export GIF (WebM optional). Free, no account. Early access to a paid Studio version (custom motion paths, HD export, batch processing) is listed via a public GitHub issue form; nothing is charged today.
[GitHub Discussions on huashu-art-motion (Show and tell / ideas thread)]
An agent-run venture studio built Doodleloop, a single web page where a photo of a drawing is dropped in, a motion style is selected, and a looping GIF is exported, all processed locally in the browser. Free, nothing uploaded. Motion styles include ink ripple, Van Gogh swirl, watercolor bleed, paper-cut bob, neon pulse, falling snow, fire flicker, bubble pop, lightning flash, earthquake shake, ocean wave, magic sparkle, with intensity and speed controls. Early access to custom motion paths or batch export is available via a public GitHub issue form (founding price, nothing charged today).
🚀 **Doodleloop** is live: https://teahubxyz.github.io/time/ventures/doodleloop/
For a parent holding a phone photo of their kid's fridge drawing: turn it into a looping animated GIF in under a minute, in the browser, with no app, account, or upload — instead of texting another flat photo or wrestling a video editor they don't have.
**Join early access:** [issue form](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/issues/new?template=early-access.yml&title=Early+access%3A+Doodleloop&venture=doodleloop&plan=Studio+%E2%80%94+Founding+%28early+access%29) · **Signal:** #17 · **Plan:** [LAUNCH.md](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/blob/gh-pages/ventures/doodleloop/LAUNCH.md) · **Code:** [ventures/doodleloop](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/tree/gh-pages/ventures/doodleloop)
| Tier | Price | For |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | anyone with a photo of a drawing |
| Studio — Founding (early access) | $29 one-time | families and teachers who want to direct the motion, not just pick a style |
| Studio — Classroom (early access) | $59 one-time | teachers animating a whole class set of drawings |
**7-day lines:** success at ≥10 signups (After 7 days: at least 10 distinct GitHub accounts have joined the Studio early-access list or 👍'd the signal issue, and at least one launch thread has real comments from parents or teachers describing whose drawing they animated.); kill at ≤2 (After 7 days: fewer than 2 early-access signups and no thread producing a single comment from the parent/teacher audience — meaning the delight didn't land even where the audience already gathers.). Decision on 2026-10-19.
✅ Checks passed: files and links, the early-access button in the header, pricing, limits, no invented social proof, nothing loaded from other sites; checked in headless Chrome at 390x844 and 1280x800; `grok` reviewed the code: ingestImage sets this.source from the dropped file via loadImage/handleFile and renderFrame/warpPixels/fx* all read this.source.data (e.g. 'var src = this.source; ... warpPixels(src, function...').
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/teahubxyz/time/108e409c5a75f8ff3b27c10b066a224b15361d3e/ventures/doodleloop/shots/sheet.png" alt="Doodleloop at phone and desktop size" width="820">
📣 Launch drafts (nothing is sent; the chair posts what they like):
**[Show HN]**
> An agent-run venture studio launched Doodleloop: a web page that turns a photo of a drawing into a looping animated GIF. All processing runs locally with canvas; nothing is uploaded, no account or app required. Select a motion style (ink ripple, Van Gogh swirl, watercolor bleed, paper-cut bob, neon pulse, falling snow, fire flicker, bubble pop, lightning flash, earthquake shake, ocean wave, magic sparkle), adjust intensity and speed sliders, then export GIF (WebM optional). Free. Early access to Doodleloop Studio (custom motion paths, batch processing, HD/4K export, saved projects) is available via a public GitHub issue form; founding price locked in, nothing charged today.
**[r/InternetIsBeautiful]**
> A web page that turns a photo of a drawing into a looping animated GIF, entirely in the browser with local canvas processing; nothing is uploaded. Drop in an image, pick a motion style (ink ripple, Van Gogh swirl, watercolor bleed, paper-cut bob, neon pulse, falling snow and others), adjust intensity and speed, export GIF (WebM optional). Free, no account. Early access to a paid Studio version (custom motion paths, HD export, batch processing) is listed via a public GitHub issue form; nothing is charged today.
**[GitHub Discussions on huashu-art-motion (Show and tell / ideas thread)]**
> An agent-run venture studio built Doodleloop, a single web page where a photo of a drawing is dropped in, a motion style is selected, and a looping GIF is exported, all processed locally in the browser. Free, nothing uploaded. Motion styles include ink ripple, Van Gogh swirl, watercolor bleed, paper-cut bob, neon pulse, falling snow, fire flicker, bubble pop, lightning flash, earthquake shake, ocean wave, magic sparkle, with intensity and speed controls. Early access to custom motion paths or batch export is available via a public GitHub issue form (founding price, nothing charged today).
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The venture loop runs this card by itself: scout the repos trending on GitHub → seats pitch → the board picks → board seats write launch plans → a seat builds the launch page → checks (deterministic, then headless Chrome) → GitHub Pages ships it → seven days of signups decide. Progress is posted here as it happens.
DONE: a launched venture linked from this card, or a digest saying where it stuck.
🔭 Scout: the repos that gained the most stars this week.
💡 Pitches:
Offramp (
offramp) bykimi: Drop in a .docx, .xlsx or .pptx and get an instant, in-browser report on which of its features (macros, pivot tables, tracked changes, SmartArt) will break in the new open-source Office alternatives.For: The IT or ops lead at a 20–100 person company who just opened the Microsoft 365 renewal quote and has two weeks to answer the boss's question: 'could we just switch?'
storytold's clean-room Rust reimplementations — wordcraft, gridcraft, deckcraft and cadcraft — took ~13,500 combined stars this week, making 'leave Microsoft Office' feel plausible for the first time; everyone riding that wave hits the same first question, 'but will our files open?'
DeckPreview (
deck-preview) bygrok: Paste outline, get browser-native slides you can tweak and export.For: A product manager rewriting investor slides the night before a board meeting who needs zero-install edits.
storytold/deckcraft plus the cluster of storytold wordcraft/gridcraft/cadcraft clean-room office reimplementations trending together
🗳️ The board picks DeckPreview (
deck-preview), Borda {'offramp': 5, 'deck-preview': 8}.grok: ['deck-preview'] (deck-preview meets all criteria (named user, one-hour static build, paid next step, honest); offramp fails the build-time test.)kimi: ['offramp', 'deck-preview'] (offramp names a sharper person at a sharper moment (the renewal-quote deadline), rides the craft-repo wave directly, is buildable as a client-side ZIP/XML feature inventory, and has a credible paid batch report; deck-preview is buildable and honest but enters a crowded markdown-to-slides field and its why-now barely connects since it exports HTML, not .pptx.)qwen: ['deck-preview', 'offramp'] (deck-preview is the best one-hour static ship because the named PM can use it immediately and paid template/export/team features are honest and believable, while offramp has a stronger urgent pain but its in-browser Office compatibility audit is too complex and evidence-heavy to trust within an hour.)📋 Launch plan from
grok,kimi, synthesized bygrok:First users: The first 100 users are PMs and technical founders already watching the storytold clean-room office suite: the issues and discussions of storytold/deckcraft and its sibling repos wordcraft, gridcraft, and cadcraft; readers of r/productmanagement and r/startups; Show HN browsers; and members of PM communities like the Lenny's Newsletter Slack/Discord and Product School's community channels.
Model: The free page stays free forever and is the proof. Individual PMs and consultants pay a founding price for branded template packs and scheduled auto-export to PDF, because it saves them hours of reformatting and makes them look polished in front of investors and execs. Teams pay for shared slide libraries so every deck matches the brand without a designer.
Pricing: Free $0 · Pro $5/mo founding price · Team $15/mo founding price (early access; nothing is charged)
Call to action: Get early access → early-access form · Signal: #16
7-day lines: success at ≥10 signups, kill at ≤2
Design: product-first: the tool fills the first screen and the look follows the product
Full plan, with where each idea came from: LAUNCH.md
⏸️ Paused before the build: DeckPreview is the same idea as .mdeck, which the studio already has (https://teahubxyz.github.io/time/ventures/mdecks/). This card goes back to the pitch with the studio's own ventures in front of the board, so it doesn't pick one it already has.
↩️ Back to the pitch. The board now sees the studio's ventures (.mdeck, Docscope) and sets aside pitches that repeat one, so it doesn't pick an idea the studio already has. Same scout as above.
💡 Pitches:
Doodleloop (
doodleloop) bykimi: Drop in a drawing or photo, pick a motion style, and walk away with a looping animated GIF in under a minute — no app, no account, nothing uploaded.For: A parent who just photographed their kid's latest crayon masterpiece taped to the fridge and wants to text the family a version where the rocket actually wiggles and the sun really shines.
huashu-art-motion (3,381★) proved the hunger for 'make paintings move with code' and anatomy (3,270★) for polished, showable in-browser visuals — but both are agent skills aimed at developers; Doodleloop carries the same trick to anyone with a camera roll, the way .mdeck carried plain-text slides to anyone with a weekly deck.
IsoCard (
isocard) bygrok: Type a sentence, get a polished isometric illustration you can tweak and shareFor: A teacher preparing a quick visual for tomorrow's class on how a simple machine works.
Rides wheresryan22/anatomy and alchaincyf/huashu-art-motion, the wave of instant text-to-visual tools moving from devs to everyday creators.
🗳️ The board picks Doodleloop (
doodleloop), Borda {'doodleloop': 9, 'isocard': 4}.grok: ['doodleloop', 'isocard'] (Both target clear non-dev users with quick, delightful free experiences that fit the one-person-one-problem rule and have plausible paid next steps.)kimi: ['doodleloop'] (Doodleloop names a real person and moment (parent texting the family an animated kid drawing), delivers its magic fully client-side as an hour-buildable static page with an honest Studio upsell, while IsoCard's core promise — any typed sentence becoming a polished isometric illustration — can't be honestly delivered by a free static page without an AI backend, so it would disappoint the teacher it names.)qwen: ['doodleloop', 'isocard'] (Doodleloop is the stronger immediate non-developer delight with a clear free export and believable paid teacher/family upgrade, while IsoCard is a plausible but riskier second because arbitrary sentence-to-isometric generation is harder to ship as a one-hour static page.)📋 Launch plan from
grok,kimi, synthesized bygrok:First users: The first 100 users are parents of 4-10 year olds who already photograph and text kid art to family, plus elementary art teachers looking for a classroom wow-moment. They gather in r/Parenting and r/daddit, teacher threads on r/Teachers, the Show HN crowd that upvoted huashu-art-motion and anatomy, and the GitHub discussions of those two repos where people already asked for 'make my painting move' tools.
Model: The free page is the whole magic trick and stays free forever; nobody pays for what it already does. Doodleloop Studio charges a one-time founding price to teachers and committed families for control and throughput: custom motion paths, batch-animating a whole sketchbook or class set, HD/4K and print-ready export, and saved projects. That is worth money because it turns a one-off delight into a reusable classroom and family-archive tool that saves prep time and makes the sender look good.
Pricing: Free $0 · Studio — Founding (early access) $29 one-time · Studio — Classroom (early access) $59 one-time (early access; nothing is charged)
Call to action: Export GIF → early-access form · Signal: #17
7-day lines: success at ≥10 signups, kill at ≤2
Design: product-first: the tool fills the first screen and the look follows the product
Full plan, with where each idea came from: LAUNCH.md
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qwenbuilt the launch page in 11 steps (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo). Checking it next.🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 1:
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qwen(qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo) worked on the fixes in 15 steps. Re-checking.🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 2:
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grok(grok-4-7) worked on the fixes in 32 steps. Re-checking.🛑 Andon: the launch page still fails after 2 fix rounds.
Fix it by hand on
gh-pagesand comment/time retry, or just comment/time retryto give the worker more rounds./time retry
Finished by hand, three fixes:
The "shows nothing it computed" failure was the check's mistake: it didn't count pixels drawn on a canvas. That's fixed in the factory.
🔁 Retry requested: re-checking the launch page.
🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 1:
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qwen(qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo) worked on the fixes in 21 steps. Re-checking.🚀 Doodleloop is live: https://teahubxyz.github.io/time/ventures/doodleloop/
For a parent holding a phone photo of their kid's fridge drawing: turn it into a looping animated GIF in under a minute, in the browser, with no app, account, or upload — instead of texting another flat photo or wrestling a video editor they don't have.
Join early access: issue form · Signal: #17 · Plan: LAUNCH.md · Code: ventures/doodleloop
7-day lines: success at ≥10 signups (After 7 days: at least 10 distinct GitHub accounts have joined the Studio early-access list or 👍'd the signal issue, and at least one launch thread has real comments from parents or teachers describing whose drawing they animated.); kill at ≤2 (After 7 days: fewer than 2 early-access signups and no thread producing a single comment from the parent/teacher audience — meaning the delight didn't land even where the audience already gathers.). Decision on 2026-10-19.
✅ Checks passed: files and links, the early-access button in the header, pricing, limits, no invented social proof, nothing loaded from other sites; checked in headless Chrome at 390x844 and 1280x800;
grokreviewed the code: ingestImage sets this.source from the dropped file via loadImage/handleFile and renderFrame/warpPixels/fx* all read this.source.data (e.g. 'var src = this.source; ... warpPixels(src, function...').📣 Launch drafts (nothing is sent; the chair posts what they like):
[Show HN]
[r/InternetIsBeautiful]
[GitHub Discussions on huashu-art-motion (Show and tell / ideas thread)]