Every MUNI, BART and Caltrain in SF on a Live Map
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HN · launched Aug 15, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 34%) · 0 views
Niche: public transit tracking software · 42 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Travel & hospitality
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 42 launches in public transit tracking software →
Could you build this?
Yes Bay Area public transit data (MUNI, BART, Caltrain) is openly available via standardized GTFS Realtime feeds, and rendering them on a web map using Mapbox or Leaflet is a classic vibe-coding project.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Hosted version instead of requiring local setup
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #44 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 287 days after the earliest competitor.
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