Earth-clock
live WebGL planet with eclipses, weather, earthquakes
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HN · launched Jul 15, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 1 view
Niche: interactive 3d web simulations · 157 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Earth-clock is a WebGL-based 3D globe visualization that overlays public API data (USGS earthquakes, weather services, astronomical calculations). Three.js/WebGL globe templates combined with standard API polling can be generated straightforwardly with an LLM.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 564 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #515 of 565 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 256 days after the earliest competitor.
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- 2piClock · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- anuko-world-clock · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- sanket · github · 2026-10-20 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- StarScope · hn · 2026-06-15 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- One hundred LLMs Generating a HTML/CSS Solar System · hn · 2026-06-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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