DealForge autonomously sources, scores, and writes investment memos on venture deals. Stop manually hunting.

1,180+ deals tracked  ·  22 AI investment memos  ·  Updated daily

← Back to leaderboard

GeoTraceroute

Show HN: GeoTraceroute – Traceroutes on a 3D globe and submarine cables

52 AI Score
Show_hn devtools Added Apr 29, 2026

Details

Sector
devtools
Total Funding
$0
Last Round
$0

About

I&#x27;ve been working on GeoTraceroute for a while and just shipped v2.3 with submarine cable inference.<p>A few things that might interest HN:<p>- 320 community-contributed nodes across 50 countries, all volunteer-run - Three views: 3D globe with day&#x2F;night rendering, 2D map, and a topological mode that infers submarine cable routing - The submarine cable inference is the part I find most interesting. Since cable routers don&#x27;t respond to ICMP, the underwater segments are invisible to standard traceroute. The tool detects ocean crossings by geolocation delta between consecutive hops, then infers the likely cable using a geo graph of landing points with A* pathfinding. I have no way to validate this — if anyone has ideas, I&#x27;d love to discuss.<p>Coverage is good in EU and US but thin in Asia, Africa and South America. If you want to contribute a node: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geotraceroute.com&#x2F;join" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geotraceroute.com&#x2F;join</a><p>Salim

AI Score Reasoning

GeoTraceroute is a technically impressive networking utility with a strong community-driven node network, but it currently functions more as a niche tool than a venture-scale business. While the submarine cable inference is innovative, the project lacks a clear monetization strategy and faces significant competition from established infrastructure observability platforms.

Source

Show_hn — View original →