ZigZag brings ChatGPT-built software to embroidery

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Downloadable software built on earlier open-source work.

To replace its app, she built ZigZag. It edits stitches and connects to a Brother PP1, with Mac and Windows builds and photographs of embroidered output. Project: https://github.com/simpsoka/zigzag

Creator Kathy Korevec works on products at OpenAI. She says ChatGPT built the app while she specified requirements and investigated communications. Development time and cost remain undisclosed.

Its NOTICE credits protocol code from Respira: useful AI-assisted assembly, not invention from scratch. Its hardware performance still needs independent testing.

At 17:03 Beijing / 4:03 AM EST on November 13, HN showed 492 points and 178 comments, discussing control over purchased hardware.

Release time: version 0.1.2, November 13, 2026, 09:01 Beijing / November 12, 8:01 PM EST. Other exact source times are unverified; HN showed under one day. This is not the original creation date.

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