Atlas
Learn how the world was drawn, on a 3D globe
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Atlas teaches geography and history in bite-size lessons on a 3D globe. Watch empires rise, borders move and all 193 countries take shape, from year 0 to today. Follow the wars that redrew the map front by front, travel back in time on the globe, and test yourself in ranked duels against other players. A few minutes a day, and the map finally makes sense. Free on iPhone and in your browser, no account needed to start.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: microlearning platforms and apps · 65 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Education
- Maps
- Games
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More like this: all 65 launches in microlearning platforms and apps →
Could you build this?
Partial A 3D globe with lessons, quizzes, and duels is vibe-codeable with Three.js or Cesium. However, a historically accurate map showing border changes from year 0 to today requires a curated, time-indexed geographic dataset that does not exist off the shelf.
What it would actually take: The stack would be a WebGL globe (Three.js or CesiumJS) with a lesson engine and multiplayer duel matchmaking. The hard part is building time-sliced historical polygon data for borders across roughly 2,000 years, which needs historians and GIS specialists to source and verify. Ongoing content production for lessons is also labor-intensive.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 424 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #184 of 425 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 378 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Mapnesia · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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- GeoLearn Kids · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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