Weird Clocks
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I had a lot of time on my hands so I spent Sunday afternoon coming up with a bunch of completely impractical ways to visualize clocks.
HN · launched Apr 6, 2026 · 53 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: novelty and humor web apps · 188 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -53% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A collection of creative clock visualizations running on HTML5 canvas, SVG, or CSS is a classic frontend weekend project easily built with AI assistance.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Seiko museum wadokei clocks, Masahiro Kikuno temporal-hour watch (2011)
Concerns raised: Location permission timeout before initialization, Excessive zooming causes user whiplash, Unclear how far to zoom to find nearest SS pair
Feature requests: Continuously check for location permission changes after timeout, Highlight nearest SS (seconds) pairs while keeping HH:MM centered, Find all seconds in region around HH:MM time, More engaging 60-second wait experience
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 135 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 136 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 157 days after the earliest competitor.
- The bedtime · hn · 2026-01-05 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- 500-clocks · github · 2026-10-18 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- A Triangular Clock · hn · 2026-02-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- The Alphabetical Clock · hn · 2026-03-30 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I was in a boring meeting so I made an encyclopedia · hn · 2025-11-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5 · hn · 2026-10-18 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Odd Orbit, live 3D globe of quakes, weather, satellites and UFO reports · hn · 2026-10-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I built Chronoscope, because Google Maps won't let you visit 3400 BCE · hn · 2026-03-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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