How Loud Is My Hotel?
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Hey HN, I build "How Loud Is My Hotel?" as a simple way to check for possible loud noise near a hotel (or any other address) before booking it.I've had some negative experiences in the past so this automatically checks for things like nearby Clubs, Police Stations with sirens, big roads, railroads etc. and gives you a "noise score" based on them.It's free, works worldwide and needs no account. It estimates outside noise risk rather than measuring decibels, so building insulation and temporary noise aren’t included.
HN · launched Jun 24, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: vertical search engines and directories · 98 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Travel & hospitality
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a single-page web app that queries OpenStreetMap via the Overpass API for nearby tags (highways, railways, clubs) and computes a weighted distance score.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Score precision misleading - noise is subjective and context-dependent, Doesn't account for temporal factors (event schedules, working hours, seasonality), Oversimplifies to proximity-based calculation without activity patterns, False confidence from 0-100 scale despite high variability
Feature requests: Extend to apartment/flat rental listings, Account for event schedules and temporal noise patterns, Consider building orientation and sound insulation factors
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 145 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #144 of 146 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 232 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Sound Level Test · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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- SoundSense: dB Sound Meter · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- OKstays · ph · 2026-10-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ReserveTheNight · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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