Astar: Interactive 3D Star Map
Leave a note on a star. Discover what others left.
Details
- External ID
- 1241556
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Astar: Interactive 3D Star Map
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Space, Social Networking, 3D Modeling
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
Description
Astar turns the real-time night sky above you into a shared 3D canvas. Explore nearly 1 Million visible stars and 88 constellations, leave public or private notes on any star, discover messages from others, and save the ones that resonate. You can also name an unclaimed star with a personal dedication, visible to the Astar community after review. Names exist only inside Astar and are not recognized by the IAU or any scientific body.
Enrichment
- Theme
- astrology, spirituality, and lifestyle tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive 3d star map for leaving and discovering public notes
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The web/mobile shell and social commenting are straightforward, but accurately rendering an interactive 3D celestial sphere of nearly 1 million stars mapped to real coordinates requires specialized graphics and spatial indexing skills.
What it would actually take: The technical core requires WebGL/Three.js or native Metal/Vulkan shaders paired with astronomical catalogs (e.g., Hipparcos/Gaia datasets). The hard engineering problem is rendering up to 1,000,000 stellar point primitives at 60+ FPS on mobile hardware using spatial octrees or KD-trees for raycasting/selection, alongside coordinate transformation math (right ascension/declination to real-time local horizon coordinates).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 60 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 61 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- AstraScope — Explore. Plan. Observe. · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Poppot · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- BYEOL · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Gaia Atlas · hn · 2026-05-29 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Sky Map Gifts · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- The Last Website · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Named Atlas · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ASCEND · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.