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Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
I built this because I was interested in the data. Didn't fully get it to what I wanted, but thought I'd share it nonetheless. Maybe someone has better data sources they could share!<p>Turns out live ship tracking APIs are expensive so I manually just copied the json from <a href="https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.4/centery:26.4/zoom:8" rel="nofollow">https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.4/cente...</a> I'll probably have an ai agent do the same thing on some cron interval, if this gets any fanfare.<p>To actually know if the port is open without live ship tracking I found <a href="https://portwatch.imf.org/pages/cb5856222a5b4105adc6ee7e880a1730" rel="nofollow">https://portwatch.imf.org/pages/cb5856222a5b4105adc6ee7e880a...</a> which was perfect, except it has 4 day lag!<p>I also thought of adding news feed parsing or prediction market data to get a more definitive answer on if it's open right when you load it, but I spent a few hours and am gonna move on for now.
This is a hobbyist side project rather than a venture-backable startup, as the founder has already indicated they are 'moving on' after a few hours of work. While it addresses a high-interest geopolitical niche and gained significant community traction on Hacker News, it lacks a business model, proprietary data, or a committed team.