Duskbox: Photo Planner
Know where the light will be, behind the real mountains
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Know where the light will be. Duskbox shows when and where the sun, the moon and the Milky Way rise and set behind the real mountains, not over a flat textbook horizon, and whether the sky is likely to light up. Made for landscape and night photographers who plan the shot before they leave home.
PH · launched Oct 31, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: stargazing and astronomy weather apps · 90 launches, 15 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Photography
- Outdoors
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Could you build this?
Partial The planning UI and sun/moon ephemeris are easy to build, but a horizon-aware view needs terrain elevation processing and a reliable light or cloud forecast.
What it would actually take: Use an astronomy library (e.g., Skyfield or SunCalc) for solar, lunar, and Milky Way positions, and open DEM data (SRTM or Copernicus) to compute the real horizon profile from the viewpoint. The skyline-occlusion and sky-glow prediction parts need GIS and atmospheric-science knowledge, plus a cloud-cover forecast API. A builder with a GIS or astronomy background would be needed to validate accuracy.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 191 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 192 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- Asterfold: Sunset Planner · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- AstroNight: Astrophotography · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Sunlane · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- AstraScope — Explore. Plan. Observe. · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Stelar Map Studio · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Sunreach · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Milky Way Planner · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Sun light and path calculation for photography · hn · 2026-07-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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