Work · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ryd.io launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Ryd.io – Manhattan Blocks Clustered via Taxi Drop-Offs▲5

   http://ryd.io/ As a capstone project for Galvanize's data science immersive I took another look at the NYC Taxi data set. A ton of analysis has been done on individual rides/cars and I was curious about what story would be told by looking at this data through the aggregate. Through the clustered map you can identify different 'personalities' of the city with a birds eye view. Check it out here http://ryd.io/cluster_map I've just spent past couple weeks working hard on this project and would love to talk to anyone about it if they are interested. After the…

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   MatrixDS▲79

   The data community's workbench

   2018 · its alternatives →

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   I built a transit travel time map▲255

   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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   I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds▲312

   Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…

   Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   my weekend project, understanding the Silk Road anonymous marketplace▲40

   This was more of a sandbox to play with Raphael and Flot than anything else but I think there are some interesting statistics in there. It'd be awesome to do this over time but I really don't have the spare time required.

   2011 · burntbrunch.github.com · its alternatives →

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   GTA DataCity▲80

   San Francisco co-working dataset visualized, as a game!

   Jul 2026 · datacity-pi.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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   Viberia▲146

   Hey HN, This is my take on the agent harness. Everything on an isometric map. Agents are grouped into "buildings" that run in a sequence or a loop; e.g., the CodeForge has an agent that writes a PRD, another one that implements, and a third that reviews. Everything is customizable, you build your own buildings/teams however you want. It's a Tauri app, really light (about 8x less energy than the closest competitor I benchmarked, so it actually runs from a coffee shop on battery). It's macOS only for now, but ping me if you are willing to test the Windows or Linux version. I've been…

   May 2026 · getviberia.com · its alternatives →

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   I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser▲113

   Each moving arrow represents one real bike ride out of 291 million, and if you've ever taken a Citi Bike before, you are included in this massive visualization! You can search for your ride using Cmd + K and your Citi Bike receipt, which should give you the time of your ride and start/end station. Everything is open source: https://github.com/freemanjiang/bikemap Some technical details: - No backend! Processed data is stored in parquet files on a Cloudflare CDN, and queried directly by DuckDB WASM - deck.gl w/ Mapbox for GPU-accelerated rendering of thousands of…

   Jan 2026 · bikemap.nyc · its alternatives →

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   Smarking▲111

   Data Analytics for Parking

   2015 · smarking.net · its alternatives →

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    Map of YC Startups▲104

    Hey Everybody! Hope you had a merry christmas Today I had a bit of fun with Claude. Started by scraping YC's startups list, then ran them through OpenAI's embedding service, then UMAP'd the embedding to reduce the dimension to just two coordinates and then just forced Claude to write React that would compile to visualize that. I had fun and I think it's interesting, so take a look! Also note that you won't be able to zoom on mobile (found about this Plotly limitation way too late). If there's interest I can fix this issue by changing plotting libs tomorrow :) Merry christmas

    2024 · yc-map.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    What the Street▲61

    Visualize the distribution of mobility spaces in cities

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Mapsense▲61

    The API for data-driven mapping

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Nomad Dot▲52

    A living map of indie hackers around the world

    Mar 2026 · nomaddot.verifiedtools.info · its alternatives →

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    Starwatcher.ai▲39

    Try it: We mapped 2,970 Y Combinator companies in 3D by product similarity - 57% of YC's entire portfolio since 2005. Jump right in and explore: pan/zoom around, click for detailed profiles, explore clusters. No signup required, works best on desktop. Why Sometimes it's hard to grasp the bigger picture and see the forest for the trees. This map gives an overall representation of the whole space - companies, clusters, and outliers (companies that don't have obvious similar counterparts). For example, there are three companies supporting innovation labs. Also it's fun to see how LegalTech…

    2025 · starwatcher.ai · its alternatives →

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    I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable▲26

    I scraped 5,000+ NDE/OBE accounts from public research databases, extracted structured data, generated embeddings, and used UMAP to project them into 3D space. The result is an interactive "consciousness map" where similar experiences cluster together. Tech stack: Next.js, Supabase (pgvector), Vercel, OpenAI API, Three.js. Some interesting patterns: - "Void" experiences cluster separately from "light" experiences - High Greyson scores tend to include more entity encounters - Cardiac arrest NDEs cluster differently than drowning NDEs Happy to answer questions about the AI pipeline or the…

    Dec 2025 · noeticmap.com · its alternatives →

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    Mochi Analytics▲17

    Hey everyone, I wanted to see if I could build something like DataFa.st myself, so I made MochiAnalytics. I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out. It’s got all the bells and whistles a small team or solo founder would need to track campaigns and to see which channel is driving revenue. It’s a cheaper analytics tool for side projects, indie hackers, and small apps. I honestly wish I could make it free, but it still needs servers, a database, and a backend to keep event ingestion running 24/7, so there are real costs behind it. I’m still working on it and will keep adding more features…

    Jul 2026 · mochianalytics.com · its alternatives →

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    NYC Taxi Visualization▲6

    2016 · michaelfogleman.com · its alternatives →

18. 18IA
    I am building an app that auto categorizes your data into clusters▲5

    I am still working on the concept so feedback is welcomed! if you are interested please leave your email or let me know. I am still trying to know whether this app is worth building.

    2024 · motionapps.ai · its alternatives →

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    RideZap▲7

    This is a side project that I have been hacking on for the last two months. It started out as trying to find a better way to see my girlfriend, as we go to universities in separate cities. The backend is built with Ruby on Rails. Some of the frontend interaction is Javascript. Any feedback would be very well appreciated.

    2011 · its alternatives →

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    How many people live within an hour walk of you?▲9

    I've been building a bunch of US geography tools/games/visualizations and thought folks on HN might like this one. There are also drive-time and bike-time tools available on the same page. For folks interested, all of the data comes from OpenStreetMap and the US Census at the moment - OSM for routing and points interest and the US Census for population data. Anonymous users can use it 5x/day. I put up a waitlist page to gauge interest in a paid version but there's no way for the public to make an account - feel free to bypass the limits in an incognito tab. The site is US-only…

    Jul 2026 · blockatlas.com · its alternatives →

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    A website for taking a virtual walk, drive or flyover in 130 cities▲5

    I've built this as a side project last month. I know there are a few similar sites out there, but I've found them cumbersome to navigate with ads that slow down the experience. So I decided to take a stab at it and build my own version, with a minimalist UI (+ I implemented a custom right-click menu to enable navigation even when the UI is hidden), ad-free, just for fun. There are over 130+ cities that you can explore right now, but I'm constantly adding new ones.

    2025 · citywalki.com · its alternatives →

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    Transitland▲11

    An open source mapping and routing tool

    2016 · transit.land · its alternatives →

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    MapMyLearn – AI tool that creates personalized learning paths▲7

    Hi HN, I'm a solo developer learning to code, and I'd love to share my second real project: MapMyLearn, an AI-powered app that automatically generates personalized learning paths based on any topic you input. What it does: Takes a topic (e.g. "history of capitalism", "learn Rust", or "data storytelling") Uses AI to break it down into a structured course with modules and submodules Each submodule includes: - Detailed, pedagogical content (developed based on online sources to mitigate hallucinations) - A quiz of 10 questions - Recommended resources - An AI chatbot for Q&A - Optional audio…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    I built a fun AI tour guide into Google Street View▲8

    I love culture + travel, and one of my favorite pastimes is dropping into random streets on Google Street View. I just LOVE getting a tiny snippet into how people live, the architecture, and discovering hidden corners of places I'll probably never visit. I'm kinda weird like that. When AI came along, I started asking it to explain what I was looking at - and I learned a ton. I couldn't stop using this combo. So I built Streetwhip. It's kinda like reverse Geoguessr - instead of guessing where you are, you get educated about places as if you had a smart local guide with you. What used to be…

    2025 · streetwhip.com · its alternatives →

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