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ShadySide
Find the better side to sit on and avoid sun while traveling
ShadySide helps you pick the better side to sit on during bus, train, or car journeys using your route, departure time, sun position, and weather conditions. This stable relaunch brings a smoother planning experience with recent and favourite routes, shareable trip cards, accuracy feedback, a public status page, improved trip validation, clearer results, faster loading, and refreshed support pages. Built for commuters, travellers, tourists, and sun-sensitive seat pickers.
Hey Product Hunt,
I’m Naren 👋🏼, the maker of ShadySide.
I launched the first beta last year as a tiny experiment around a very specific travel problem: when you’re taking a bus, train, or car ride, which side should you sit on to avoid direct sun?
The idea came from a real annoyance: picking a seat, starting the journey, and realizing the sun is going to roast you for the next hour.
Since the beta, I’ve rebuilt and polished a lot of the product. ShadySide is now out of beta with a more stable planning flow, recent and favourite routes, better sharing, a feedback loop, and a public status page.
What changed in this relaunch:
The planner is smoother and handles “leave now” trips better
You can save recent and favourite routes for repeat journeys
Results can be shared with cleaner trip cards
You can give quick feedback on whether the recommendation was accurate
The app now has a public status page
Public pages, docs, tips, and result clarity have been improved
I’m especially interested in feedback from:
people who commute by bus or train
people in hot cities
travellers and tourists
people who work on a laptop while commuting
builders who care about niche utility tools
A few questions I’d love your thoughts on 💭:
- Is the result easy to understand?
- Would you use saved routes for daily commutes?
- Should ShadySide focus more on buses/trains, or also expand pre-trip low-sun guidance for car journeys?
- What would make you trust the recommendation more?
Thanks for checking it out. I’d love your honest feedback. 😄
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About ShadySide on Product Hunt
“Find the better side to sit on and avoid sun while traveling”
ShadySide was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #93 on the daily leaderboard. ShadySide helps you pick the better side to sit on during bus, train, or car journeys using your route, departure time, sun position, and weather conditions. This stable relaunch brings a smoother planning experience with recent and favourite routes, shareable trip cards, accuracy feedback, a public status page, improved trip validation, clearer results, faster loading, and refreshed support pages. Built for commuters, travellers, tourists, and sun-sensitive seat pickers.
ShadySide was featured in Weather (3.3k followers), Travel (42.3k followers) and Health (6.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 18.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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