Public transit systems as data
lines, stations, railcars, and history
Details
- External ID
- 47561132
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Public transit systems as data
- Website domain
- publictransit.systems
- Launched
- March 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 47
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8333333333333334
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- embodied AI and robotics platforms
- Vertical
- Logistics
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- public transit system data platform
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a static/database-driven informational website presenting transit system statistics and history with a custom terminal-styled UI.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Existing navigation systems (Google Maps, etc.), GTFS/Netex/SIRI transit data formats, Open data platforms (transport.data.gouv.fr)
Concerns raised: Incomplete without out-of-gate transfers and fare logic details, Missing real-world transfer complexity (congestion, walking times), Data accuracy issues - AI hallucinations (Tokyo Metro description wrong), Doesn't capture insane edge cases in actual transit systems, API responses lack unit type information
Feature requests: Search by railcar model numbers or line colors in command palette, Add more city systems (Toronto, London, Paris, Copenhagen, Rome, Madrid), Include out-of-gate transfer rules and timeframes, Meters as unit option, not just miles/kilometers, Track actual experienced commute time with transfers
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 253 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #43 of 254 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 149 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Vehicle-Sales-Visualization-Platform · github · 2026-09-16 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- transload – we measure freight with security cameras · yc · 2026-05-18 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Mapibara · hn · 2025-12-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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