OVspot
Live public transport map of the Netherlands
Details
- External ID
- 1260988
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- OVspot
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Open Source, Travel, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
OVspot shows all public transport in the Netherlands live on one map: trains, buses, trams, metro and ferries. Features: - All operators on one map - International trains: ICE, Eurostar, Nightjet, GoVolta, DB, NMBS tracked beyond NL borders - Line filter: type "350" to see only that line - Station pages with departure times - PWA - works as an app on your phone - Built on open NDOV/KV6 data and GTFS
Enrichment
- Theme
- travel planning and itinerary tools
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- real-time public transit tracking map for the netherlands
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The front-end map and filter UI are straightforward to vibe-code, but ingesting and streaming high-volume real-time GTFS-RT/NDOV public transit feeds at nationwide scale requires specialized stream data engineering.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a distributed stream processing backend (e.g., Go/Rust or Node with Kafka/Redis) consuming Dutch NDOV (BISON KV6/KV15/KV17) feeds and international GTFS-RT protobuf streams. The challenging part is spatial interpolation, dead-reckoning vehicle positions smoothly between GPS pings across tens of thousands of active vehicles, and broadcasting updates efficiently to thousands of web clients over WebSockets.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #17 of 42 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
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