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DailySpace, Android app for exploring space photos and rocket launches

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Hi HN,I’ve always been fascinated by space and how much is happening beyond what we usually see day to day. I wanted a simple way to explore space photography and learn what I was actually looking at, without jumping between lots of different sites or long articles.So I built DailySpace, an Android app for exploring a large collection of space photos with short and clear explanations. You can browse thousands of images of galaxies, nebulae, planets, stars, black holes, Earth, and different NASA missions organized into categories or found through search.As I kept using it myself, I added things I thought were missing elsewhere, like a rocket launches and space mission tracker where you can see upcoming launches, revisit past missions, and read about their goals, vehicles, agencies, and timelines.I’d love feedback on:What features are missing? Would you use such an app? Is the app works smoothly on your device?Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daily.spac...Happy to answer questions!

HN · launched Jan 14, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: stargazing and astronomy weather apps · 90 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Content generation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes This is a mobile application aggregating space imagery and rocket launch schedules using public APIs like NASA APOD and Launch Library 2. An MVP can be built in Flutter or React Native using standard AI-assisted mobile workflows.

Discussion

4 comments analyzed.

Feature requests: collection of all different rockets through the years

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 274 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #134 of 275 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 77 days after the earliest competitor.

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  • astranav · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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  • Earth is Optional · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Spaceillion · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48

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