Elevators
Details
- External ID
- 49124218
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Elevators
- Website domain
- john.fun
- Launched
- July 31, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1680
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.998805256869773
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- property maintenance and home services
- Vertical
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- Function
- —
- Audience
- —
- AI stance
- —
- Project type
- —
- Normalized one-liner
- —
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an interactive visual essay / simulation built in HTML, Canvas, and JavaScript demonstrating elevator dispatching algorithms and statistics.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Destination dispatch may not work if elevator doesn't commit to user's floor, Difficult to measure and compare elevator algorithm quality, Energy efficiency optimization unclear across different algorithms, Safety concerns with elevators stopping between floors
Feature requests: Algorithm to optimize elevator resting positions during downtime, Destination dispatch optimized for total travel time, not just wait time, Energy efficiency metrics and comparison between algorithms
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 62 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 63 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 208 days after the earliest competitor.
- Elevators.ltd · hn · 2026-03-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.88
- Open-GYM · github · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- QuickLift Garage Door LLC · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Jdan's Japan subway station icons · hn · 2026-07-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- sidedoor · github · 2026-09-28 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- LocalRoom · github · 2026-09-22 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- S-Bahn Seat Picker · hn · 2026-08-07 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Highrise · hn · 2026-08-25 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.