Gradient.horse

[spython]

Hey, it's my project, nice to see it here! I wanted to do something that I liked in the early times of the web - something small, optimistic and whimsical.

The AI-assisted drawing moderation is inspired by drawafish.com and works quite well at keeping the horse parade family friendly!

[spython]

As a bit of an observation - the horses went viral on tumblr, bluesky and to a lesser extent facebook and instagram and smaller pages at different days, so I could observe how the drawing style and content changes:

- Most beautiful horses and least penises were drawn by tumblr users. Maybe because they've drawn a lot of penises before and got it out of their system : )

- Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter

- Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN.

- Most generous buymeacoffee supporters: tumblr

- Most unexpected source of traffic: substack

- Hardest slashdot effect: bluesky

[twism]

just saw an animated fellatio

[nkrisc]

Doesn’t seem to catch “five-legged” horses very well.

[Juliate]

This is a beautiful idea, thank you!

[internet2000]

Just got a 8===D~ drawing past the filter.

[LeoPanthera]

MTBP (Mean Time Before Penis) is about 30 seconds.

If you tab out and then back again it draws about 20 horses all on top of each other making some kind of eldritch horror.

[semitones]

I only see my penis for some reason

[zer0zzz]

I did my part

[Tommix11]

I saw a xenomorph, who drew that one?

[gus_massa]

I expected it to detect the legs automaicaly, I guess I'm spoiled by AI.

In a similar project, a hard part was filtering penis and nazi symbols.

Protip: add a few legs parts in the tail, so it moves too.

[dmit]

> In a similar project, a hard part was filtering penis and nazi symbols.

Check out how the precursor of this project did it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719222

> I built a basic CNN trained against penises and swastikas, and then anything that doesn't hit the 63% confidence score gets sent to a mod queue, a vibe-coded fish-tinder (https://bsky.app/profile/bigass.bsky.social/post/3luvikxn3f2...).

[richstokes]

Easily one of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026

[hinkley]

One of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026 so far.

[n_u]

Neat!

Reminds me of Draw a Fish https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719222

and their security incident lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784743

[rhoopr]

The simplicity of the animation makes this hilariously charming.

[Normal_gaussian]

Some of you can draw some pretty amazing abstract horses.

Some of you cannot.

Some of you choose not to.

[dragonfax]

The backwards horse is my fault, period. I didn't read the direction.

[khazhoux]

I was working on a site where you can draw animated penises, and it would filter out horses, but your version actually makes more sense.

[acheron]

I’m so glad ICANN added .horse for all our horse-related sites.

[ashton314]

Very happy to see a Trogdor the BURNiNATOR strutting across my screen

[ErneX]

curses!

[basketbla]

The unsettling music perfectly matches the vibe of the horse creatures marching along (especially with the non-horses enabled).

Side note I also keep expecting the severance theme after the first note.

[villuv]

Zooming in and out on iphone introduces flying horses

[DeepYogurt]

This is some quality internet

[gus_massa]

You can draw the head and tail of the horse using the "legs" color, so they move too.

Fake edit: I just draw a Pegasus!

[stevage]

Supposedly it filters out non-horses, but I sure saw a lot of dragons and snakes and cows and I don't know what.

[dakolli]

btw, This is what people are referring to when they say LLMs are revolutionizing software.

[stevage]

Cool, you can click on them and they jump.

Someone made a pretty ace 8 legged horse.

[zkmon]

Fill the internet with this kind of trivia. Victory to humans!

[bulletsvshumans]

Ok I bought my dumb horse on a mug, I admit it.

[recursive]

It wouldn't let me because it said I hadn't drawn any, even though I just watched my majestic yellow horse prance all the way across the screen.

[mym1990]

Make the internet weird again, part 2!!

[nilslindemann]

There are so many different views of the same concept.

[fHr]

absolute cinema

[efilife]

whoever drew a fish, great job

[hinkley]

My horse did not stomp :(

[spython]

Oh no! Did you use all the colors available?

[sublinear]

Just like the early web, I expect it to become a graffiti playground full of dicks.

[klinquist]

this made my day.

[lovegrenoble]

Funny enough

[twism]

some creative nsfw ... bravo

[countWSS]

Crashed my browser, very poor code.

[stephenlf]

I love this. Btw, TTFP on my feed was about 5 minutes lol

[asplake]

Nord warns: This website may be unsafe We detected that the website you’re about to visit could be a scam.

It was actually the first time I'd seen that message, so, erm, congrats?

[diimdeep]

This and author homepage gives strong impression of the usual contemporary nothing burger.

[SSchick]

Ohhh exloitable.