Onsight: pay a local to photograph any spot in San Francisco, on demand
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HN · launched Jun 20, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: local services and classifieds marketplaces · 163 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -26% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 163 launches in local services and classifieds marketplaces →
Could you build this?
Yes The software is a standard two-sided marketplace web application featuring geolocation pins, image uploads, and payments.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Moderation needed for photos and user behavior, Rejected submissions result in wasted time for photographers, No mechanism to prevent unauthorized downloading of photos, Geographic limitation to SF seems unnecessary
Feature requests: Expand beyond SF to other locations, Clarify limits on how many people can sign up per job, Automate moderation as volume grows
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 71 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 72 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 177 days after the earliest competitor.
- sellphotos.online · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Every MUNI, BART and Caltrain in SF on a Live Map · hn · 2026-08-15 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- AnyShot · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- FilmDevelop · github · 2026-09-23 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Irl.rent · hn · 2026-04-18 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco · hn · 2026-07-20 · 263 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- TryNearby: Every local business needs to be discoverable. That $150B market is moving toward local creators. · yc · 2026-08-17 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Isopolis · hn · 2026-08-03 · 350 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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