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A live map of human attention. Every few seconds someone edits a Wikipedia article about a place — a city, a mountain, a battlefield — and it lights up on a real-time 3D globe, right where that place is. Colour shows the language. No sign-up, no account, just the planet thinking out loud.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
Wikipedia is edited about 5 times a second, around the clock, in ~300 languages. Most of that happens invisibly. I wanted to *see* it — so I built The Planet Thinks.
It holds one live connection to Wikipedia's edit stream. Whenever someone edits an article that's about a place, the spot lights up on a 3D globe, right where that place is on Earth. The colour of each spark tells you which language Wikipedia it came from. Click one and you can read the actual edit. That's the whole thing — no login, no feed, nothing to buy.
A few things I love about watching it:
- You can feel the day/night cycle of the internet as editing follows the sun.
- Clusters appear around big news, sporting events, and elections in real time.
- It's weirdly calming. There's an optional cinematic mode + generative ambient music if you want to put it on a second monitor or a TV.
It's fully open-source and the deployed site is the same code. Built with three.js / globe.gl on the front and a tiny Node service on the back. NASA Blue Marble / Black Marble imagery for the Earth.
I'd love feedback on what to add next — heat-trails, per-country stats, a "biggest edits" ticker have all been suggested. What would *you* want to see the planet think about?
→ https://theplanetthinks.com · code: https://github.com/alekcac/the-p...
The pulsing orange glow over Europe while Japan stays mostly quiet at 3am is honestly mesmerizing. Makes the whole internet feel like one breathing organism.
This is genuinely mesmerizing. Watching edits pop up across the globe in real time makes the internet feel alive in a way I have not experienced before.
watched it for a few minutes and honestly got kind of mesmerized. the bursts of color in certain regions are way more intense than i'd expect, like you can basically see which places people are obsessing over in real time.
the way the colour falls away by language on the globe is such a quiet, clever touch, you can actually see which parts of the world are getting the most attention in any given minute. genuinely beautiful build.
About The Planet Thinks on Product Hunt
“Watch Wikipedia being edited, live, on a 3D globe”
The Planet Thinks was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 11 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #71 on the daily leaderboard. A live map of human attention. Every few seconds someone edits a Wikipedia article about a place — a city, a mountain, a battlefield — and it lights up on a real-time 3D globe, right where that place is. Colour shows the language. No sign-up, no account, just the planet thinking out loud.
The Planet Thinks was featured in Web App (122.9k followers), Open Source (68.6k followers), GitHub (41.3k followers) and Data Visualization (3.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 75.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted The Planet Thinks?
The Planet Thinks was hunted by Alexander Shishkov. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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