Yourshoesmells.com
Find the most smelly boulder gym
Get picks like this daily. Today's launch numbers, the top launches, AI and tech news, and a daily opportunity pick, straight to your inbox.
Want to reach these readers? Sponsor an issue.
A crowdsourced map for ranking Boulder gym stinkiness and difficulty. Get a detailed view of the gym. “Is there toprope in the gym?” “Any training boards?”
HN · launched Nov 4, 2025 · 45 upvotes (top 19%) · 1 view
Niche: local business and vendor directories · 95 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 95 launches in local business and vendor directories →
Could you build this?
Yes A crowd-sourced review and ranking website for climbing gyms is a standard web application with a database, auth, and mapping integration (e.g., Mapbox or Google Maps).
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Maps, OpenStreetMap (OSM)
Concerns raised: Data accuracy issues, especially with multi-state city names (Redmond WA vs OR), Font is too small and hard to read, Password requirement (3-20 characters) for voting feels like dark pattern, Incomplete gym listings in some regions (France gyms missing)
Feature requests: Filter by smell categories (e.g., 'Smells Like Ass' vs 'Smells Like Balls'), Slider for bicycle parking instead of just car parking checkbox, Better geographic disambiguation for cities with same names across states, Increase font size for readability, Feed data into OpenStreetMap with appropriate metadata tags
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 99 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 100 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- Rate My Gym · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Tonnage by Deload · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Map Your Gym · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- My local climbing gym from photogrammetry · hn · 2026-08-10 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- whatsmytrend.com · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- MyFitnessCoach · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Famous A-Holes · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- HauntedFinder · ph · 2026-09-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
The niche, labels, vibe code rating and competitor comparison on this page are analysis by Nicheloom. If you use them, please credit nicheloom.com. How you may use our data.