StarScope
Free astronomy dashboard for observers outside the US/UK
Details
- External ID
- 48545818
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- StarScope
- Website domain
- starscope.live
- Launched
- June 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7616120218579235
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- astronomy dashboard for observers outside us and uk
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The platform is an astronomy data aggregator and dashboard that polls publicly available scientific feeds (arXiv, NASA GCN, MPC, NOAA) and displays them in a modern web view.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Clear Outside, Arxiv, NASA GCN, Sky & Telescope, APOD
Concerns raised: Mobile UI scrolling area too small at bottom of screen, Existing tools don't work properly for southern hemisphere observers
Feature requests: Feedback on "Worth It Tonight?" scoring weighting for experienced observers
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 153 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 154 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 226 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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