I used to pin street parking by hand in Google Maps. Now it's an app
Details
- External ID
- 48423731
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I used to pin street parking by hand in Google Maps. Now it's an app
- Website domain
- apple.com
- Launched
- June 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- street parking location app
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Curbie is a standard crowd-sourced mobile map application with pins, votes, and time-based color states built on Apple Maps/MapKit. Its architecture consists of standard React Native or Swift UI connected to a basic Supabase or Firebase backend.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Maps satellite/street view for parking research, Google Open Spot (2010 parking availability tool)
Concerns raised: Cold start problem - getting crowdsourced data in new cities, Cannot detect if a physical parking spot is actually available, Privacy concerns with location tracking and car position sharing
Feature requests: Android version (currently iOS only)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 75 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 76 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 214 days after the earliest competitor.
- FindMySpot · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Pinpal — Save & Navigate Back · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PARKT · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- I built Istanbul live transit map · hn · 2026-05-20 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- App to spoof GPS location on iOS without jailbreaking · hn · 2026-01-18 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Free Google Places API alternative using OpenStreetMap (no API key) · hn · 2026-05-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Rank up your local business on Google Maps · hn · 2026-01-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Geovo · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.