How far do I have to go to run into 100k people?
Details
- External ID
- 49028358
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- How far do I have to go to run into 100k people?
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- July 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 71
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8823178016726404
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- distance calculator to reach population density
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a web map visualization that takes coordinates and queries open population raster data (like Meta HRSL) using raycasting or geospatial libraries like turf.js or a PostGIS backend.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Missing Canada population data skews northern results, Degenerate circles in dense areas with low thresholds, Great circles vs latitude parallels causing confusion, Water bodies create invalid or omitted rays, Doesn't accurately represent actual population collision paths
Feature requests: Color gradient for multiple population thresholds (1k, 2k, 10k, 20k, 100k, 1M), Include Canada population data in calculations, Mean free path estimation based on population density, Clarify distance calculation methodology
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 22 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 23 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 250 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.