Driftline
See how far your smoke smell travels, live
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A live map of how far and which way smoke smell drifts, based on local wind and weather.
PH · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: environmental and geospatial analytics software · 124 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Weather
- Tech
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More like this: all 124 launches in environmental and geospatial analytics software →
Could you build this?
Partial The map UI and wind-data fetching are vibe-codeable, but credible smell-plume prediction requires atmospheric dispersion modeling and fine-grained local wind and terrain data.
What it would actually take: The stack would be a mapping frontend (MapLibre or Leaflet) over a backend that pulls wind and weather from NOAA HRRR or similar models and an open-source dispersion model such as a Gaussian plume or Lagrangian particle approach. The hard part is validating the model against real observations and handling terrain, urban effects, and stability. That needs an atmospheric scientist or air-quality modeler, plus compute for near-real-time runs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 133 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #76 of 134 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
- Driftlog · ph · 2026-10-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Tide It: Tides & Wind · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Live Atlas · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Firemaps Spain · hn · 2026-07-29 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Windsockviews · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- OffsetSmokerPro · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- World in Layers · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Tracemap · hn · 2026-03-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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