Netlify
The composable platform for modern sites, stores, and apps.
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The composable platform for modern sites, stores, and apps.
5.0•45 reviews•1.4K followers
Netlify is the foundation for Enterprises looking to modernize their web architecture. With Netlify, your team can ship faster, be more productive, reduce risk and complexity, and drive higher conversions and revenue.
It features continuous deployment from Git across a global application delivery network, serverless form handling, support for AWS Lambda functions, and full integration with Let's Encrypt.
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Netlify Capsules
Launching today
Netlify Capsules is a virtual experience to celebrate 10 million developers on Netlify.
Developers choose a Netlify project, add a photo, song, or short note, then deploy their capsule into orbit around the earth. Capsules appear overhead and can be discovered using web-based AR, based on your real-world location.
Each capsule is unique, personal, and tied to something you’ve made.
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Hey Product Hunt -
We just crossed 10 million developers on Netlify and wanted to mark it by building something people could actually launch.
Capsules lets you send a small digital payload—tied to a real Netlify project—into orbit around the earth, then discover other capsules overhead using your phone's AR.
Built in collaboration with community member, and Netlify power user, @leemartin and meant to be lightweight and fun. Curious what you’d send up.
Typeform
So beautiful and original way to celebrate the community 🎉
I've put my furry teckel into a capsule, she is orbiting out there 🤣
Netlify
@picsoung thanks for the love ❤️
Took me a minute but found your site in your payload too: https://nicolasgrenie.com/
@picsoung Thank you! Excited to come across your pup in orbit 💜
Netlify
Hey PH fam 👋
This one's personal for a reason I didn't expect.
We just surpassed 10 million developers on Netlify, and instead of writing about it, we asked ourselves: what would actually honor that number?
Not the metric. The people behind it.
This one needed to be for the community. So we built Netlify Capsules.
It's a way for every developer to take one of their projects, add something personal—a photo, a song, a note—and launch it into virtual orbit. Then use AR to find it floating in the sky above you.
What caught me off guard was how much the constraint mattered.
You only get a few words for your note. That forces you to ask: what do I actually want to say about this work? About this moment?
I've watched people spend five minutes on their payload and twenty on that note. (Looking at you Jacob!)
The AR piece shifts how it feels too. You're not scrolling a gallery. You're looking up. Your work is somewhere like a museum in the sky. Other people can discover it. It makes the digital feel physical in a way I wasn't ready for.
We didn't build this in-house. We asked @leemartin, a community member with 250+ deploys, to create it.
He's lived the builder experience we wanted to celebrate. That mattered.
What I love about this approach is it flips the usual dynamic.
We're not telling you what 10 million means. You're showing us. Through the projects you pick. The photos you share. The songs that got you through the build. The notes you write to express yourself.
Hope you'll check out the experience. Curious what you'll put in yours and what that choice says about the work that matters to you.
The Netlify team is here today so we would to hear if you've got questions and comments/reactions👇
The location-based Web AR discovery is slick, but at scale you hit noisy GPS, WebXR support variance, and performance issues when dozens of capsules are nearby.
Best practice is to bucket capsules into an H3 or S2 grid, stream only viewport-relevant items, and optimize assets with glTF + KTX2/Basis texture compression plus LOD to keep frame times stable.
Are capsules anchored purely by lat,lng or do you also use WebXR hit-test anschoring, and what is the plan for opt-in location privacy plus anti-spam moderation?
Turn
@ryan_thill Ryan, love this feedback and would love to bend your brain about all of it. This is very much a simple / basic Three JS execution of the concept. Capsules are anchored by coordinates but always on the move due to their orbiting path. We're using Three JS raycasting for targeting. Since we're using the geolocation Web API, privacy is sort of built-in as it is opt-in only to utilize the AR piece. For moderation, we've got Netlify AI Gateway looking through things upon submission but also doing manual moderation. If/when the scale of this grows, we'll definitely look towards more sophisticated tooling. Again, really appreciate the expertise!
Unslack
Netlify Capsules is EXACTLY the kind of product people have been saying they want to see more of - unique, playful and in the human spirit of creativity. When the same website template or AI generated copy is just a prompt away the team at Netlify have gone above and beyond partnered with one of their power users, @leemartin, and put love and delight into a fun celebration of reaching 10 million developers!
I'm always an advocate for these kinds of experiences and we should be encouraging more like them to push technology and human creativity further! 🚀
(Now back to exploring all the cool capsules I can find in the sky 🌌)
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