Fieldnotes
Details
- External ID
- 47024398
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fieldnotes
- Website domain
- fieldnote.ink
- Launched
- Feb. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6314016172506739
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN!I wanted a simple UI for notes and observations around my neighborhood (e.g. this garden has beautiful poppies, this coffee shop has excellent espresso, etc.) and built this. It’s open and free to use, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!Feedback welcome.
Enrichment
- Theme
- plant care and agriculture tools
- Vertical
- Agriculture
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- —
- Project type
- —
- Normalized one-liner
- —
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight location-based notes app using browser geolocation, Leaflet/Mapbox, and a simple spatial query backend (or SQLite/PostGIS) is a standard vibe-codeable CRUD app.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Day One (location-based journaling)
Concerns raised: Unclear how to use the product, Lack of on-site explanation/documentation, Privacy concerns about location tracking (too close to home)
Feature requests: Ability to delete notes
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 37 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 38 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 109 days after the earliest competitor.
- Joonote · hn · 2026-03-21 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Notes from building a startup, shared openly · hn · 2026-01-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Mininote: Instant, plain-text note taking without tracking or lock-in · hn · 2026-08-14 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Search tool for "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?" · hn · 2025-11-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- TomatoVynl · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- I left Figma to build a diffusion-based UI design tool · hn · 2026-07-21 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- shipnotes-components · github · 2026-09-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Garden of Flowers · hn · 2026-06-16 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.