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Yourshoesmells.com

Find the most smelly boulder gym

Details

External ID
45808918
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Yourshoesmells.com
Website domain
yourshoesmells.com
Launched
Nov. 4, 2025
Cohort
—
Upvotes
45
Upvotes percentile
0.8133187772925764
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

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?”

Enrichment

Theme
interactive quiz and trivia games
Vertical
Travel & hospitality
Function
Marketplace
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
find smelly boulder gym locations
Manually corrected
False

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 — 41 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #7 of 42 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Looks like the first mover among its competitors.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a marketplace tool for Horizontal yet.