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The Internet Compass is a visual map for exploring the internet economy. Discover the companies, people, products, platforms, communities, markets, and ideas shaping the web, and see how they connect. Instead of jumping between endless tabs and fragmented search results, explore the internet layer by layer, follow connections, and uncover interesting corners of the web. Think of it as a compass for understanding the bigger picture of the internet.
PH · launched Sep 7, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: product and content discovery platforms · 144 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -58% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- User Experience
- Artificial Intelligence
- Tech
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Could you build this?
Partial The directory website is a standard web application, but continuously aggregating, structuring, deduplicating, and keeping current massive cross-domain datasets (salaries, research, GitHub, companies) requires heavy data pipeline engineering.
What it would actually take: The system requires a web frontend (Next.js/React) backed by search infrastructure (Elasticsearch/Typesense) and dozens of scheduled ingestion pipelines pulling and normalizing data from public APIs (GitHub, npm, PyPI, OpenAlex, arXiv) and proprietary company scrapers. The hardest part is ongoing entity resolution, automated data cleaning, and deduplication across divergent data schemas to maintain high data quality at scale.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 56 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 57 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 257 days after the earliest competitor.
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