Smart Nav Tools
Passage, cargo, and bridge tools for deck officers
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Smart Nav Tools helps deck officers and cadets preview ECDIS routes, calculate waypoint ETAs, read BAPLIE bay plans, check tides offline, and practise COLREG encounters. It also includes an AMVER report builder and a maritime news bulletin.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized navigation and tracking apps · 203 launches, 35 in the last 7 days ▲ +84% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Logistics
- Vertical SaaS
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Education
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Could you build this?
Partial The waypoint ETA calculator, BAPLIE viewer, and COLREG quiz are buildable, but ECDIS previews, tide predictions, and AMVER reports must be accurate and compliant for a safety-critical maritime context, which requires domain expertise and validation.
What it would actually take: Use harmonic tidal constituent data (e.g., NOAA or UK Hydrographic Office) for offline tide prediction, and parse BAPLIE/stowage formats per the standard. ECDIS-style route previews need electronic navigational chart data (S-57/S-101) and a GIS rendering layer. AMVER reporting must match the USCG's submission format, and the content should be reviewed by a licensed mariner before anyone relies on it at sea.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 31 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 32 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 235 days after the earliest competitor.
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