Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
Hey HN! I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents.
I didn't write a single line of code.
Of course no-code doesn't mean no-engineering. This project took a lot more manual labor than I'd hoped!
I wrote a deep dive on the workflow and some thoughts about the future of AI coding and creativity:
http://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc
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