iran-map-timelaps
Persia through time: a 3D globe timelapse of how the map of Persia/Iran changed over 2,800 years, from 844 BC to today. English and Persian.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 23 upvotes (top 85%) · 0 views
Niche: digital history and reference archives · 150 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- dataviz
- globe
- history
- iran
- map
- persia
- +4 more
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Could you build this?
Partial The 3D globe and timelapse animation are vibe-codeable with Three.js, but accurate historical border data for 844 BC to today requires scholarly GIS datasets that a builder must source and curate.
What it would actually take: The stack is a WebGL globe (Three.js or Cesium) with animated GeoJSON polygons keyed by year. The hard part is the historical boundary dataset, which needs historian-verified sources and careful handling of disputed territories. Expertise in historical geography and GIS is needed to make the timeline credible.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #180 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
- interactive-iran-map · github · 2026-11-09 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Extinct Atlas: Deep-Time Walkway · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- IranMapStudio · github · 2026-10-01 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Europe Time Machine · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- PersiansHome · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Hourora · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Persian-Subtitles · github · 2026-09-29 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Timelive · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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