I Built a MTA Subway Display So I'd Stop Checking My Phone
Details
- External ID
- 47456706
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I Built a MTA Subway Display So I'd Stop Checking My Phone
- Website domain
- twitter.com
- Launched
- March 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2853628536285363
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- transit display device for subway information
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes As demonstrated in the post itself, this was built via Claude using off-the-shelf hardware (Raspberry Pi Zero and e-ink panel) connected to public MTA GTFS transit feeds.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 69 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #50 of 70 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 137 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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