All roads lead home
a Google timeline replacement
Details
- External ID
- 49331512
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- All roads lead home
- Website domain
- takeallroads.com
- Launched
- Aug. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5772849462365591
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
I was a bit concerned when Google was sending comms about decommissioning Timeline on web. Then they did a mobile migration, and lost a bunch of user info.Started this app so I can always have a copy of my timeline on my icloud + server + device (3,2,1 rule)Hope y'all are able to find some value in it as well!BTW here is all the streets I've walked in NYC in the past 10 years: https://share.takeallroads.com/s/0Hq7jYxhS698Xyip-r4Prg (video version: https://imgur.com/a/e8p9aXt)
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- google timeline replacement
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The web UI and map display are easily vibe-coded, but continuous, low-power background location tracking on iOS/Android requires deep mobile OS lifecycle and battery-optimization expertise.
What it would actually take: Needs a native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) app utilizing CoreLocation significant-change and deferred location APIs combined with accelerometer sensor fusion to avoid draining battery. Data must be ingested into an encrypted local SQLite/spatial database and synced across iCloud/personal servers with conflict resolution.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Timeline
Concerns raised: data privacy concerns with cloud storage
Feature requests: offline support, share links functionality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 111 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #49 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 288 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Life Tile · hn · 2026-07-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- I used to pin street parking by hand in Google Maps. Now it's an app · hn · 2026-06-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Replay: Life Timeline · ph · 2026-03-26 · 185 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- GridTravel · hn · 2026-05-14 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- How many people live within an hour walk of you? · hn · 2026-07-28 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- My Saved Places · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.