Show HN: Brick Atlas: Explore 1000+ LEGO sets on one zoomable canvas
Hello HN, I’m Daniel and I run ZoomHub, a small deep zoom image service. Most online catalogs look the same: There’s a grid of thumbnails, limited to about 20–50 items, filters that refresh the page when activated, and pagination buttons to go to page 22 of 128. It has always bothered me that you can’t see the whole collection and every action makes you wait and lose context. I built Brick Atlas to show it doesn’t have to be that way: You can browse 1000+ LEGO sets by zooming in, selecting a set
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2026-11-10 00:45:16.464Z
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Source account: Hello HN, I’m Daniel and I run ZoomHub, a small deep zoom image service. Most online catalogs look the same: There’s a grid of thumbnails, limited to about 20–50 items, filters that refresh the page when activated, and pagination buttons to go to page 22 of 128. It has always bothered me that you can’t see the whole collection and every action makes you wait and lose context. I built Brick Atlas to show it doesn’t have to be that way: You can browse 1000+ LEGO sets by zooming in, selecting a set
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