I used to pin street parking by hand in Google Maps. Now it's an app
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HN · launched Jun 6, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized navigation and tracking apps · 203 launches, 35 in the last 7 days ▲ +84% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 203 launches in specialized navigation and tracking apps →
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 : 157 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #149 of 158 (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 0.51
- Pinpal — Save & Navigate Back · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ParkPulse · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- PARKT · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Where I Parked · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Fix-Pin · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- google-maps-gps-navigator · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Pinshift · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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