LightUp Tours
Hidden city stories, told right where they happened
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LightUp is a map of hidden stories. Walk to a spot, press play and hear what happened right there: the protest that saved hundreds of men, the hippo that survived a war. Short audio stories in Berlin, Madrid, Bogotá and more, in 7 languages. Free on web and Android.
PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: audio tour and playback systems · 24 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Travel & hospitality
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Travel
- Maps
- Audio
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More like this: all 24 launches in audio tour and playback systems →
Could you build this?
Yes The software is a map with location-triggered audio playback and multilingual UI, which is simple to build. The main effort is authoring and narrating the stories, which is labor rather than technical difficulty.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 64 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 65 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
- MiniTravels · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- hisTOURy – Street History Audio Tours · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Placelore · ph · 2026-10-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- PressGT · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Hidden Events · ph · 2026-09-30 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- World Cinema Atlas · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- HistoryQuest · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- WalkFind · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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