Sunlane
See exactly when direct sunlight reaches any spot
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Sunlane tells you when direct sunlight actually reaches a spot — after the buildings, trees and hills in front of it. Point your iPhone at a window, balcony, garden bed or campsite. Hold the button and sweep along the rooftops and treetops.
PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: environmental and geospatial analytics software · 124 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Productivity
- Weather
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Could you build this?
Partial The sunlight UI and an AR sweep with a sun-position model are feasible with an ARKit-based iOS app, but accurate shadow occlusion from LiDAR meshes and horizon geometry needs real 3D and solar-geometry expertise.
What it would actually take: Build a native iOS app using ARKit with LiDAR scene meshes for occlusion, combined with an astronomical sun-position library and time-stepped ray casting against the mesh. The hard part is making shadow results accurate across seasons and terrain, which requires graphics and solar-geometry expertise plus on-device performance tuning.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 358 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #159 of 359 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 220 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sunreach · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Sunwake · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Sunbend · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Windshield HUD · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Duskbox: Photo Planner · ph · 2026-10-31 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- sunlight · github · 2026-10-28 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Sundial+ for iPhone, iPad, & Apple Watch · ph · 2026-11-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Asterfold: Sunset Planner · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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