Draw a Fish

Project intro

Draw a Fish is a tiny, joyful corner of the internet: sketch a fish (facing right, please), get it validated in real time by a neural network, and release it into a shared tank where it swims alongside creations from artists worldwide. The background color shifts as the AI recognizes your fish, and on-canvas hints help you make it more fish-like. Then hit "make it swim!" and your fish joins the community aquarium — browse the tank by most recent, popular, or random, click any fish to meet its creator, vote on other people's drawings, track your own collection and stats, and climb the leaderboards. The maker, Alden Hallak, is disarmingly honest about how it was built. His README for the open-source repo (github.com/aldenhallak/fishes) states verbatim: "This repository was about ~80% AI generated. I used copilot + zencoder. Both tools worked great, but could not be trusted to make decisions on their own :)" — a refreshingly candid vibe-coding disclosure, smiley included. The repo is public and was still being pushed in September 2026, and the live tank is full of real user-drawn fish, so the thing is genuinely alive, not a demo that died after launch.