Faraway
Physically accurate solar system, time travel 1900–2100
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HN · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 86%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive 3d web simulations · 157 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial A WebGL solar system viewer is buildable with three.js, but accurate positions for many bodies over 1900 to 2100 need a correct ephemeris pipeline, which requires astronomy expertise to get right.
What it would actually take: The stack would be a three.js or WebGL 2 renderer with a time controller, fed by JPL ephemeris data such as Horizons or SPICE kernels for planets, moons, and small bodies. The hard part is correct orbital mechanics, coordinate frames, and precision handling across a century, along with validating against authoritative data. This needs an astronomer or astrodynamics engineer to verify the results.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1065 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #879 of 1066 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 369 days after the earliest competitor.
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