Gradient.horse

Hey, it's my project, nice to see it here! I wanted to do something that I liked in the early times of the web - something small, optimistic and whimsical.

The AI-assisted drawing moderation is inspired by drawafish.com and works quite well at keeping the horse parade family friendly!

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spython 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As a bit of an observation - the horses went viral on tumblr, bluesky and to a lesser extent facebook and instagram and smaller pages at different days, so I could observe how the drawing style and content changes:

- Most beautiful horses and least penises were drawn by tumblr users. Maybe because they've drawn a lot of penises before and got it out of their system : )

- Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter

- Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN.

- Most generous buymeacoffee supporters: tumblr

- Most unexpected source of traffic: substack

- Hardest slashdot effect: bluesky

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Imustaskforhelp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is there a thriving tumblr tech community, anything similar to HN on tumblr?

Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter

- Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN.

I expected better from HN :/

Someone once told me that HN is like 4chan but for tech people & I defended a lot against it but now I feel like seeing an overlap between HN,twitter,4chan

> - Most unexpected source of traffic: substack

How much traffic did you get out of substack?

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echelon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Tumblr is still around? That's a good data point.

	▲	maxbond 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They're well on their way to becoming the next PDF.

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internet2000 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just got a 8===D~ drawing past the filter.

	▲	spython 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The filter does not show directly whether it's filtered out or not - it's silent, otherwise the game would be "trick the AI filter" and that's a totally different genre.

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LeoPanthera 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

MTBP (Mean Time Before Penis) is about 30 seconds.

If you tab out and then back again it draws about 20 horses all on top of each other making some kind of eldritch horror.

	▲	Tommix11 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I saw a xenomorph, who drew that one?
	▲	semitones 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I only see my penis for some reason
	▲	zer0zzz 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I did my part

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richstokes 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Easily one of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026

	▲	hinkley 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		One of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026 so far.

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gus_massa a month ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I expected it to detect the legs automaicaly, I guess I'm spoiled by AI.

In a similar project, a hard part was filtering penis and nazi symbols.

Protip: add a few legs parts in the tail, so it moves too.

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n_u 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Neat!

Reminds me of Draw a Fish https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719222

and their security incident lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784743

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villuv 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Zooming in and out on iphone introduces flying horses

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rhoopr 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The simplicity of the animation makes this hilariously charming.

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Normal_gaussian 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some of you can draw some pretty amazing abstract horses.

Some of you cannot.

Some of you choose not to.

	▲	dragonfax 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The backwards horse is my fault, period. I didn't read the direction.

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basketbla 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The unsettling music perfectly matches the vibe of the horse creatures marching along (especially with the non-horses enabled).

Side note I also keep expecting the severance theme after the first note.

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acheron 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m so glad ICANN added .horse for all our horse-related sites.

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dakolli 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

btw, This is what people are referring to when they say LLMs are revolutionizing software.

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ashton314 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very happy to see a Trogdor the BURNiNATOR strutting across my screen

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stevage 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Supposedly it filters out non-horses, but I sure saw a lot of dragons and snakes and cows and I don't know what.

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gus_massa 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can draw the head and tail of the horse using the "legs" color, so they move too.

Fake edit: I just draw a Pegasus!

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bulletsvshumans 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ok I bought my dumb horse on a mug, I admit it.

	▲	recursive 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It wouldn't let me because it said I hadn't drawn any, even though I just watched my majestic yellow horse prance all the way across the screen.

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DeepYogurt 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is some quality internet

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asplake an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nord warns: This website may be unsafe We detected that the website you’re about to visit could be a scam.

It was actually the first time I'd seen that message, so, erm, congrats?

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khazhoux 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was working on a site where you can draw animated penises, and it would filter out horses, but your version actually makes more sense.

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nilslindemann 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]