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dummy book!
Lay out art books in browser. Riso-ready. Free during beta.
Designed by artists, for artists making indie books. Lay out zines, photo books, and illustration books in your browser — with halftone preview, riso simulation, and print-ready PDF export. Free during beta. Where artbooks are born.
Hey Product Hunters 👋
I'm Keita — solo maker behind dummy book!
I built this because every time I sat down to lay out a zine or an art book, I had two bad options:
1. Open InDesign and fight with master pages for an hour to make an 8-page zine.
2. Photoshop spreads by hand, then lose track of pagination at page 12.
Neither felt like a tool made for people who make books *as art*.
dummy book! is the tool I wished existed:
• Drop images into the browser, watch the book come together live
• Halftone + riso ink separation preview built in
• Multiple sizes (A6, A5, B5, A4, custom)
• Print-ready PDF export
• Free during beta
It's designed for zines, photo books, illustration books, and indie art catalogues — the things that exist between "blog post" and "monograph."
A few things I'd genuinely love your input on:
→ What's the one thing about laying out a book that makes you put off the project?
→ What's the most beautiful indie book you've seen recently? (any medium, any size)
→ If you make zines or art books today — what would make you switch from your current tool to dummy book!?
I'll be here all day answering questions, and I'll ship fixes for anything that breaks today.
Thanks for stopping by — bring your art, build your book.
— Keita 🙏
PLANKTON studio
About dummy book! on Product Hunt
“Lay out art books in browser. Riso-ready. Free during beta.”
dummy book! was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #138 on the daily leaderboard. Designed by artists, for artists making indie books. Lay out zines, photo books, and illustration books in your browser — with halftone preview, riso simulation, and print-ready PDF export. Free during beta. Where artbooks are born.
On the analytics side, dummy book! competes within Design Tools, Art and Books — topics that collectively have 403.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how dummy book! performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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