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PastRush: History Detective

Investigate history with labelled evidence

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PastRush turns history into investigations with labelled exhibits: made at the time, written later, scientific finding or modern reconstruction. Six of 12 investigations are free, including the Rosetta Stone, Pompeii and Otzi the Iceman. A 3D globe has a Time River back to Pangaea. Class mode for shared devices. No account, no ads.

PH · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: digital history and reference archives · 150 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -56% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Education
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • iOS
  • Education
  • Online Learning

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Could you build this?

Partial The interactive app (investigations, exhibit labels, 3D globe, timeline) is vibe-codeable with a web stack and a 3D library like three.js. The historically accurate, well-sourced exhibit content is the real bottleneck and needs research and historian review.

What it would actually take: Build a web app with a content model for investigations and labelled exhibits, a three.js globe, and a timeline component. The hard part is producing accurate, sourced content for each investigation, which needs historians or subject-matter researchers and a review process.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 90 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #38 of 91 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Offline History Stories · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Geopoch · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • HistoryQuest · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • History Quiz Game · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • PastClimate · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Laurus · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • The History Web · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Istoriada · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40

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