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Mentas
Live map of global commodity flows and chokepoints
Mentas maps how raw materials physically move around the world: shipping routes, pipelines, and the maritime chokepoints they squeeze through — with live vessel positions and daily transit volumes. Underneath the map sits the analysis layer: CFTC positioning, press-sentiment scoring on 22 commodities, conviction scores and event-study backtests across 1,000+ instruments. Free, no signup to browse.
Hey Hunters,
I'm Fadi, and I built Mentas alone over the past year.
It started from a frustration: every markets platform shows you the price of copper, but none of them shows you the ships carrying it, or the strait those ships have to pass through. Price is the output. I wanted the inputs.
So Mentas maps the physical layer — shipping routes, pipelines, chokepoints, live vessel positions — and puts the usual analysis on top: CFTC positioning, sentiment scoring from a real-time news pipeline running on 22 commodities, conviction scores, event-study backtests.
Two things I'd rather say myself than have you discover:
- Vessel coverage comes from shore-based receivers, so some open-ocean areas and parts of the Persian Gulf show few or no ships. That's the data source, not a bug — the map labels those zones. Satellite coverage is the real fix and it's expensive.
- The signals are context, not alpha. I ran the backtests and I'm not going to pretend they print money.
Everything on the map and the asset pages is free and needs no account.
I'd genuinely like to hear where the map is wrong or missing something — especially from anyone who works in shipping or physical commodities.
finally a map that actually shows the shipping routes instead of just dots on a globe, and the chokepoint view made me realize how much i take for granted
About Mentas on Product Hunt
“Live map of global commodity flows and chokepoints”
Mentas was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #110 on the daily leaderboard. Mentas maps how raw materials physically move around the world: shipping routes, pipelines, and the maritime chokepoints they squeeze through — with live vessel positions and daily transit volumes. Underneath the map sits the analysis layer: CFTC positioning, press-sentiment scoring on 22 commodities, conviction scores and event-study backtests across 1,000+ instruments. Free, no signup to browse.
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Who hunted Mentas?
Mentas was hunted by fadi Hassan. 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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