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Ember Hunt

Run your hunting season together: safety, stands, club

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Details

External ID
1270431
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
Ember Hunt
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Oct. 6, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
2
Upvotes percentile
0.7630403573137662
Tags
Android, iOS, Outdoors
Fetched at
Oct. 7, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Updated at
Oct. 7, 2026, 5:01 p.m.

Description

Ember runs your whole hunting season in one app: shared maps and stand assignments for your crew or club, safety check-ins that alert family and partners if you're overdue (even after a dead zone), and stand scores that explain why, weighing wind, weather, terrain and hunting pressure for tonight on your own ground. Offline maps, a hunting journal and pressure tracking included. Built for solo hunters, families and clubs. Flat price, no auto-enroll.

Enrichment

Niche
professional coaching and performance tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Vertical SaaS
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
hunting club and season management app for hunters
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial The club management, stand assignments, and basic safety timers are simple CRUD, but real-time localized stand scoring modeling micro-weather, wind drift, terrain elevation, and offline dead-zone mesh/satellite syncing is difficult.

What it would actually take: The app would use React Native with Mapbox/MapLibre offline vector tiles, paired with a backend running spatial queries (PostGIS). The core difficulty is integrating high-resolution weather APIs (HRRR/NOAA) to calculate downwind scent dispersion over digital elevation models (DEM) and building reliable background location fail-safes when devices lose cellular connectivity.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #10 of 51 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 196 days after the earliest competitor.

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