PULSE
Japan crowd counts: now, 1 hour ahead, 2 hours ahead
Details
- External ID
- 1248209
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- PULSE
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- iOS, Travel, Artificial Intelligence
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
PULSE predicts people counts at places across Japan now, 1 hour ahead and 2 hours ahead. Explore a map, search or ask in chat to find quieter places or livelier venues. Free on iPhone; no account needed. Currently in Japanese. Developed with GPT through Codex and Claude, with over 3 billion data records and 2.6 billion record-level prediction comparisons.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- real-time crowd counting for japan locations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Accurately predicting venue and district crowd levels across Japan requires commercial access to proprietary nationwide telecom or SDK-based mobile GPS telemetry that cannot be vibe-coded.
What it would actually take: A functional implementation requires multi-million dollar data licensing contracts with Japanese telecom carriers or location aggregator SDKs to ingest raw GPS pings. The technical stack requires distributed streaming infrastructure (Apache Kafka, ClickHouse/Apache Pinot) to process billions of location events in real time, combined with specialized spatio-temporal graph neural networks (e.g., ST-GCNs) trained on years of historical density patterns to forecast future foot traffic.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #38 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 256 days after the earliest competitor.
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