The Alphabetical Clock
Details
- External ID
- 47571401
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- The Alphabetical Clock
- Website domain
- boat.horse
- Launched
- March 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 40
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8191881918819188
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- alphabetical clock
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A client-side clock that spells out the current time and arranges or animates SVG text along an alphabetical dial is pure frontend math, HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: clocks.brianmoore.com, triclock.franzai.com
Concerns raised: Second hand jerks visually when resetting from 60 to 0, Only 12-hour version, not 24-hour
Feature requests: Smooth animation for second hand reset/flip to zero, 24-hour version with all 86,400 possible times, German language version with different number sorting rules, Physical/IRL version of the clock
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 181 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 182 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 146 days after the earliest competitor.
- A Triangular Clock · hn · 2026-02-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- The bedtime · hn · 2026-01-05 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Triclock · hn · 2026-02-11 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- The notepad that thinks in numbers · hn · 2025-12-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- I made a simple time card calculator · hn · 2025-11-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Digital Clock Features You Missed. · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Weird Clocks · hn · 2026-04-06 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Museum of Numbers · hn · 2026-09-26 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.