Asciimap
Interactive ASCII world map with live data
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HN · launched Mar 31, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 42%) · 2 views
Niche: interactive mapping platforms · 191 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 191 launches in interactive mapping platforms →
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 : 1879 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #817 of 1880 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 152 days after the earliest competitor.
- An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine · hn · 2026-06-20 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- ascii-pond · github · 2026-10-26 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor · hn · 2026-01-13 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Box of Rain · hn · 2026-02-14 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Atlas of Posters · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- OutMap · hn · 2026-08-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- chlobe · github · 2026-10-06 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- isometricworld · github · 2026-11-09 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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