Is Hormuz open yet?
Details
- External ID
- 47696562
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Is Hormuz open yet?
- Website domain
- ishormuzopenyet.com
- Launched
- April 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 484
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9897172236503856
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I built this because I was interested in the data. Didn't fully get it to what I wanted, but thought I'd share it nonetheless. Maybe someone has better data sources they could share!Turns out live ship tracking APIs are expensive so I manually just copied the json from https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.4/cente... I'll probably have an ai agent do the same thing on some cron interval, if this gets any fanfare.To actually know if the port is open without live ship tracking I found https://portwatch.imf.org/pages/cb5856222a5b4105adc6ee7e880a... which was perfect, except it has 4 day lag!I also thought of adding news feed parsing or prediction market data to get a more definitive answer on if it's open right when you load it, but I spent a few hours and am gonna move on for now.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- strait of hormuz status checker
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project is a simple single-page dashboard displaying vessel transit status or maritime traffic data scraped or fetched from public tracking sources.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Windward insights website for ship crossing data
Concerns raised: Website is down/inaccessible for some users, Unclear data sources, Cloudflare anti-scraping blocking simple API access
Competitors
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Attention rank: #2 of 74 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 148 days after the earliest competitor.
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