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Generative design tool for mesmerizing visuals, still and in motion. Posters for events, brand and presentation assets, music-video loops, conference identities, etc. All from play: make something unique in seconds, or spend hours creating. Runs in your browser on desktop or tablet.
Hey all, I've been building Whorl for a while, and today is a real milestone for me.
Whorl is a browser-based generative design tool for making visuals, still or in motion. Posters for event communication, brand assets, music-video loops, conference identities, visuals for corporate presentations, that kind of thing. It runs on desktop or tablet.
As an interaction designer, I've always used code as a design tool: to bring things to life, to figure out how things should look and, especially, feel. That last part is where play and surprise come in.
I was the first designer at Adobe to design for touch, and spent eight years there as a principal designer. After Adobe, I wanted to spend some time creating generative art. That led to wrapping an interface around it, so everybody could experience the joy I get from creating and playing with generative visuals in motion. It became the Whorl iOS app, which stayed alive on its own, loved mostly by casual creators.
Fast forward past another big corporate chapter, as a managing design director at Uber, and I wanted to turn Whorl into a more powerful tool while holding tightly to the principle of play. Today I'm sharing exactly that: the Whorl web app, with all the controls for professionals who want to create unique visuals in motion, while keeping the playful feel of the original iOS app.
And while we're all figuring out what AI means for software, I ended up not using it. Whorl just didn't need it. Real-time, playful, easy to use. That turned out to be the more powerful foundation.
How access works:
Whorl launches publicly in August. Between now and then, I'm opening it to communities in small drops. Product Hunt is the first one.
The first 100 hunters get 7-day early access + 50% off a 1-year Pro. Email me at [email protected] with your name and, if you feel like it, what makes you curious about the tool. I'll send you access + the code personally.
Everyone else, I'd love to have you on the waitlist for public launch: whorl.app. Waitlist members get a founding-member discount when we go live in August.
Any questions, I'm here in the comments all day. Would love to hear what you'd make with it.
Remon
Honestly impressed by how quickly it churned out a striking poster the moment I tweaked the seed. The motion loops are genuinely hypnotic, not just pretty noise.
About Whorl on Product Hunt
“A generative design tool. No AI. Lots of play.”
Whorl was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #54 on the daily leaderboard. Generative design tool for mesmerizing visuals, still and in motion. Posters for events, brand and presentation assets, music-video loops, conference identities, etc. All from play: make something unique in seconds, or spend hours creating. Runs in your browser on desktop or tablet.
Whorl was featured in Design Tools (261.8k followers), Graphics & Design (4.3k followers) and Design resources (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 43.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Whorl?
Whorl was hunted by Remon Tijssen. 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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Remon Tijssen