site: reviews — Isopolis, ssh.place (graduate from finds)

src/content/find/2026/08/isopolis/index.mdx

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 link: "https://sf.isopolis.city/"
 linkText: "sf.isopolis.city"
 source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+promotedTo: isopolis
 topics: [design-and-art, web-tools]
 tags: [pixel-art, san-francisco, maps, free]
 description: "An isometric pixel-art San Francisco built on the city's real geometry — pan it, take a guided tour, send a postcard."
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-The geometry underneath is the real city — OpenStreetMap footprints, a CARTO basemap, neighbourhood boundaries from DataSF — and every tile of it has been repainted by a fine-tuned image model into isometric pixel art. Chinatown, the Financial District and Rincon Hill are labelled where they actually sit, the Bay Bridge runs off the corner, and there are guided tours, a button that drops you at a random landmark, and a postcard you can send.
+The geometry underneath is the real city — Google's photorealistic 3D mesh, rendered through a single orthographic camera and then repainted tile by tile into isometric pixel art by a fine-tuned image model. Chinatown, the Financial District and Rincon Hill are labelled where they actually sit, the Bay Bridge runs off the corner, and there are guided tours, a button that drops you at a random landmark, and a postcard you can send.

src/content/find/2026/08/ssh-place/index.mdx

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ shortlist: true
 link: "https://ssh.place"
 linkText: "ssh.place"
 source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+promotedTo: ssh-place
 topics: [cli-and-automation, design-and-art]
 tags: [terminal, collaborative, pixel-art, free]
 description: "A shared 200×60 canvas you draw on over SSH — no account, no install, one placement every fifteen seconds."