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24 alternatives to The Leap - The Strange Journey of the World's Worst Smell

How bad smells led to the demise of American manufacturing

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Leap - The Strange Journey of the World's Worst Smell launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbon Dioxide▲118
2018 · carbondoomsday.com · its alternatives →
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Sweat The Product▲153
A collection of stories from people who build product.
2014 · its alternatives →
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99% Invisible - Tube Benders▲76
How a nobel gas signaled luxury, seediness, and now...cool?
2015 · its alternatives →
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Unspiration▲280
Products for pessimists ☹️
2018 · its alternatives →
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Product Hunt Maker Stories - Sam Lessin▲83
Sam on Fin, angel investing, and the end of capitalism
2016 · its alternatives →
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The End of Alchemy▲60
Money, banking, and the future of the global economy
2016 · its alternatives →
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I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data▲244
OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insights: The interesting part is the mechanics of how the crisis unfolds: for example, France receives 0…
Jul 2026 · globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io · its alternatives →
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Reveal - Do not drink: The water crisis in Flint, Michigan▲61
How Flint, MI went from trusting tap water to fearing it
2016 · its alternatives →
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Analyse Asia 81: Semiconductors are eating the world with Ben Bajarin▲53
Overview of the Semiconductors Industry globally to Asia
2015 · its alternatives →
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Planet Money #731: How Venezuela Imploded▲56
A huge economic collapse that was entirely avoidable
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Jay & Farhad Show: The End of the Era of Optimism▲57
The current negativity in the tech industry
2016 · its alternatives →
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Sprayable Energy▲134
Welcome to The End of Tired
2014 · its alternatives →
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WSJ Tech News Briefing - Portable Chem Labs With Digital Noses▲56
Electronic noses that can sniff our what we are eating
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation▲62
A story about the life & work of brilliant engineers!
2015 · its alternatives →
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Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies▲77
Explains the roots of resistance to new technologies
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Vanishing American Corporation▲2
Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy
2016 · its alternatives →
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For God, Country, and Coca-Cola▲67
America's socio-economic history through the "glass"
2016 · its alternatives →
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Radiolab - Bigger Than Bacon▲65
How pistol shrimps (🍤, not 🏀) helped America win WWII
2016 · its alternatives →
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"The Stolen Bacillus" By H.G Wells▲60
TLDR: Mad Scientists, Apocalyptic Schemes, And Car Chases
2016 · its alternatives →
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Think Dirty▲69
Shop clean. Info about toxic ingredients in cosmetics.
2014 · its alternatives →
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Analyse Asia 154: The 5 Major Events in Asia with Sameer Singh▲56
5 Major Events that shook Asia Technology Landscape
2016 · its alternatives →
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Bottom of Product Hunt▲96
The Long Tail of Products
2015 · its alternatives →
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Neutral▲121
Bring transparency and sustainability to your shopping cart
2020 · its alternatives →
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Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces▲81
2018 · missionemission.co · its alternatives →

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