Asciimap
Interactive ASCII world map with live data
Details
- External ID
- 47594637
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Asciimap
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 31, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5781057810578106
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive ascii world map with live data
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Displaying world map coordinates in ASCII format in a terminal or web page and polling public APIs for live metrics is straightforward frontend/CLI scripting.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Pipe custom data into maps (server locations, API traffic by region), Real-time data integration capabilities
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 659 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #290 of 660 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 152 days after the earliest competitor.
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- AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor · hn · 2026-01-13 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Box of Rain · hn · 2026-02-14 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- OutMap · hn · 2026-08-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Isopolis · hn · 2026-08-03 · 350 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Temporal Context Map · hn · 2026-07-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world · hn · 2026-09-27 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Skymap · hn · 2026-05-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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