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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.
HN · launched Apr 8, 2026 · 484 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: geospatial and transport tracking platforms · 50 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Logistics
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 123 (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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