Buslens
where can I get to by bus? (UK)
Details
- External ID
- 49445286
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Buslens
- Website domain
- rupertlinacre.com
- Launched
- Aug. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 84
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9153225806451613
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- travel and transit tracking tools
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- bus route finder for uk
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A front-end mapping application integrating public UK bus open data feeds (such as the UK Bus Open Data Service API / BODS) using Leaflet or Mapbox.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Maps (public transport routing), LA transit app, Isochrone/distance cartogram tools (Distanamo)
Concerns raised: Bus routes appear/disappear when zooming in/out (glitchy rendering), Not readable in areas with similar-colored lines and overlapping routes, Missing bus services in some regions (e.g., Isle of Skye), Difficult to judge center-of-screen importance precisely, API key requirement not clearly documented
Feature requests: Add reticle/crosshair for precise map alignment, Show faded routes beyond 1 hour instead of removing them entirely, Mark buses as 'lost' instead of removing from display, Intersection feature to see where two points' reachable areas meet, Better handling of express vs regular bus routes with similar paths
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 62 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 63 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 271 days after the earliest competitor.
- Geo Racers · hn · 2026-02-12 · 152 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Gatwick Taxi Transfer · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Abico Executive Travel · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- On, Hop-Off Bus Tour · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- RimAssistantLimbusCompany · github · 2026-09-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- LeafBus · github · 2026-09-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- bys-travel-plan · github · 2026-09-19 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Elevators.ltd · hn · 2026-03-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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