LayerGen AI

LayerGen AI is a solo founder side project that's exactly what tabletop gamers with 3D printers have been waiting for — you describe your character or upload a ref image and it spits out a print-ready STL at 28mm heroic scale for a single dollar. The real differentiator here isn't the generation part, it's the "actually works in a slicer" part, since most AI 3D tools produce gorgeous renders that fall apart the minute you try to print them. At 86 users and a Product Hunt rank of #19, this is firmly in early-days side project territory, but if you own a printer and you've ever been frustrated by Hero Forge's limits, this is low-key the move — cheap, fast, and built specifically for the tabletop use case rather than generic 3D generation.