Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to NYC Train Sign
Custom LED matrix display for real-time data
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. NYC Train Sign launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey all! My train the other day was delayed and I got curious where they all were at any given time, so I built a map and figured I'd share it.
2023 · trains.fyi · its alternatives →
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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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2016 · blog.johnnycopperstone.me · 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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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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Illuminated transit diagrams printed with circuit boards
2021 · metro.lifeclo.cc · its alternatives →
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2013 · blog.davidsingleton.org · its alternatives →
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New York City Subway Signalling and Interlocking Simulator
2015 · nycsubway.org · its alternatives →
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Online LED Scrollerfree▲5Free online LED scroller and LED banner maker. Turn any phone, tablet or laptop into a scrolling dot matrix sign. Any language and emoji, clock and countdown, big text mode, fullscreen on iOS and Android. No app, no sign-up.
Aug 2026 · aledscroller.com · its alternatives →
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As a side project I built Sydney Transit Graph - a visualisation of real-time Sydney bus congestion. Each line on the graph (a Marey chart) represents a bus completing its route (percentage) over time.
2022 · jakecoppinger.com · its alternatives →
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Easy to use, fully loaded digital signage software.
2021 · easysignage.com · its alternatives →
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Introducing the Station Display
2025 · stationdisplay.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m a junior developer. I wanted to share a side project I’ve been working on. The national railway carrier (BDZ) has no public API. They have an official map but the UI is quite dated, often lags, and doesn't show the full route context. I wrote a short write-up about the process here: https://www.pavlinbg.com/posts/bg-train-tracker I know it's still rough around the edges (I'm still working on it), but I’d love to hear your feedback or suggestions!
Dec 2025 · bdzmap.com · its alternatives →
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Online led display simulator for custom scrolling signs
2024 · letreiro.org · 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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