Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to NYC Train Sign
Bringing transit data above ground
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. NYC Train Sign launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Building a Bus Clock for my House using a Raspberry PI and Python. I won't miss the bus ever again!
2022 · purplehoisin.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! As a long term NYC resident, I have read countless articles on ideas tweaking subway services, but always found them hard to follow without visual aid. So over the long weekend I decided to build one. It has all the basic features: trains would spawn at their origin, stop at stations, and slow down if it gets too close to another. You can also design custom routes by piecing tracks together. Have fun, and let me know what you think!
2025 · buildmytransit.nyc · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents. I didn't write a single line of code. Of course no-code doesn't mean no-engineering. This project took a lot more manual labor than I'd hoped! I wrote a deep dive on the workflow and some thoughts about the future of AI coding and creativity: http://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc
Jan 2026 · cannoneyed.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, I was running around Germany, hectically navigating public transportation, and getting lost all the time. I noticed that every station had i platforms, each used lists of n buses (trains, whatever) arriving, each has their list of m destinations. That means I would be scanning i x n x m items just to see if I was at the correct stop. As I was nervous, for every bus that arrived, I would rescan the list of stops to double check. I began thinking how I could make a better system. Linked is a very shoddy mockup of how bloom filters could be used to allow passengers O(1) lookup time for…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A real-time map that helps New Yorkers get around.
Jan 2026 · aptransit.co · its alternatives →
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Illuminated transit diagrams printed with circuit boards
2021 · metro.lifeclo.cc · its alternatives →
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deck.gl based visualiser of the TFL Api + National Rails to be able to track (with minimal drift) a train along the way in London and to the nearest airports. If you pick one from any platform in https://nexttrain.london basically you can share your train journey along the rails. Build to test Cloudflare workers and their infra along with deck.gl performance that is incredible in my opinion.
Jul 2026 · ride.nexttrain.london · its alternatives →
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This was something I built while trying to look for housing in Toronto that was decently transit-accessible to my office while still cheap. The backend is written in Rust. It parses public GTFS data from transit agencies and performs a simple heuristics-based BFS on the bus lines to calculate how long to reach all points in a city. The frontend uses React and Mapbox GL to render each individual road segment based on how long it takes to reach. This project was a great excuse to learn Rust, deployments, and mapping. The source code is here if you are interested:…
2023 · map.henryn.xyz · its alternatives →
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Transit▲123Real-time transit data and a bot to help you commute
2016 · transitapp.com · its alternatives →
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Uber Transit▲167Uber now offers real time data for public transportation
2019 · uber.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · blog.davidsingleton.org · its alternatives →
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You might remember MYmta, and maybe you loved it, but it was impossible to maintain. The Digital Services team at the MTA + Axon Vibe + many others contributed to relaunching the official MTA app with new features based on user feedback. Let us know what you think!
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I previously made a web version of The Weekendest, but when I was laid off from my last job, I decided to take the free time I had to pick up Swift UI, and made a native iOS version of it. The main draw of the app is that the map is dynamically generated based on the current subway routing, so when you open the app on weekends or overnight, you'll see lines correspond to where the trains are actually running, which is a very unique NYC problem. Let me know what you think!
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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During a recent subway outage in San Francisco I decided to build a webapp in the spirit of "Do I Need an Umbrella," basically to answer the question "Should I take the subway or a bus?" In the interest of learning new tools I decided to vibe code it as much as possible. First, I had Claude Code write a background script to download images of the real-time circuit diagram of the subway, which are publicly available here: http://sfmunicentral.com/ Next I had it build an image labeler tool in tkinter, which turned out to need a lot of manual tweaking before I could even get to…
Jan 2026 · munimet.ro · its alternatives →
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Realtime NYC subway train tracker, now on Android!
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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New York City Subway Signalling and Interlocking Simulator
2015 · nycsubway.org · its alternatives →
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Amtrak.js▲77The easiest way to track Amtrak Trains programmatically
2021 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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- NYC Train Sign alternatives
- Tracking my local bus with a RaspberryPi alternatives
- NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer alternatives
- isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC alternatives
- The Weekendest iOS App alternatives
- Public transportation signage based on bloom filters (rough mockup) alternatives
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