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Huzzi

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I Built a Search Engine for 134,000+ Icons Because I Was Tired of Switching Tabs.


This wasn't a planned project.

One day I noticed I had six different icon library tabs open just because I was trying to find one icon that looked right. I'd search Lucide first, then Heroicons, then Tabler, then another library... and I'd end up spending more time searching than actually building.

After doing this over and over, I thought, "Why isn't there just one place that searches all of them?"

So I started building IconStash.

The idea is simple: instead of visiting every icon website individually, you search once and get results from 28 open-source icon libraries in one place.

Some of the things it can do:

  • Search 134,000+ icons
  • Compare similar icons from different libraries
  • Copy SVG instantly
  • Copy React (JSX), Vue, Svelte and Angular components
  • Export PNGs
  • Save collections
  • Bulk select icons
  • Fuzzy search so you don't need the exact icon name

There are still plenty of things I want to improve. Performance has been my biggest focus recently, and I'm also working on making the mobile experience much better.

I'd love to know if this is something you'd actually use. If you've got ideas or feature requests, I'm all ears.

👉 https://iconstash.io

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