You shouldn't have to open 5 apps to convert a 3D model. Or upload your hard work to a stranger's webserver. Or have your screen covered in ads. That's why we made this 100% private, in-browser, all platforms 50+ formats.
Let me rant for a second, bear with me. We work with a lot of 3D models, and we noticed how my time just evaporates when trying to wrangle them into the right format for the right medium. Right? Open Blender, save as one format. Open another app, save as another format. Now use a command line tool. Oh, you need Python for this? Spend an hour setting that up. Come back for weird errors when you're ready.
At the last step, you realize that you made a mistake and had to start all over.
There's got to be an online converter that can do this in seconds, right? There is. And honestly, that thought scared me even more. I have to upload my expensive, proprietary model to a semi-anonymous web server, and they store it there for hours, or maybe forever? It also doesn't help that I have to make my way through a wall of ads.
So Jens and I asked each other, how could make 3D model conversion 100% private, but still not an app you have to install? And that's how we went down the rabbit hole of Web Assembly, a modern way to run highly efficient close-to-the-metal code right in the browser. Turns out that's a great technology for converting complex and heavy 3D formats. There's just no uploading—in fact, you can turn off your internet connection after loading the page, and conversion still works.
Since we don't have heavy server costs, we decided we might as well make it free AND not run any ads.
About Convert3D on Product Hunt
“100% private + no ads + no upload + all platforms”
Convert3D launched on Product Hunt on August 30th, 2023 and earned 102 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #23 on the daily leaderboard. You shouldn't have to open 5 apps to convert a 3D model. Or upload your hard work to a stranger's webserver. Or have your screen covered in ads. That's why we made this 100% private, in-browser, all platforms 50+ formats.
On the analytics side, Convert3D competes within Web App, Design Tools and 3D Modeling — topics that collectively have 383.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Convert3D performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Convert3D?
Convert3D was hunted by Morten Just. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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