Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
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HN comment orderThere is zero (0) reason I don't currently own a pinball machine. There are several listed on my local Craigslist right now for between $500 and $2500 USD. I could simply play pinball whenever my heart desired. The fellas who bankrupt early and rode with someone else when we play cards could have something do. I could maintain it obsessively, finding original manuals and schematics. They don't depreciate significantly if maintained. Am I a moron for not owning one? Why…
HN suggested I repost this, since last time it didn’t get much attention (cool feature!). Here is the description I wrote last time: Hi, Pinball Map is a hobby project we've been doing in our spare time for the past 10 years. It's currently listing 7,291 locations and 24,918 machines. Code is on github[1][2], and we have an API that is used by various folks. Web Stack = ruby on rails, heroku, tile server on aws. App = React Native…
Hi, Pinball Map is a hobby project we've been doing in our spare time for the past 10 years. It's currently listing 6,725 locations and 22,704 machines. Code is on github[1][2], and we have an API that is used by various folks. Web Stack = ruby on rails, heroku, tile server on aws. App = React Native (launched the redeveloped app last June) We took a relatively slow-growth approach for the first 9 years: we added "regions" one at a…
Worth noting the other submission at the same time - the Open Pinball Database: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412182
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-13 | Show HN: Pinball Map – user-updated map of public pinball machines | ryantgtg | 6 | 1 |
| 2020-01-17 | Show HN: Pinball Map – user-updated map of public pinball machinesFirst breakout | ryantgtg | 203 | 85 |
| 2022-04-02 | Crowdsourced worldwide map of public pinball machines | james_pm | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-02-02 | Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machinesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | technophiliac | 290 | 130 |
| 2025-06-29 | Pinball MapHall induction | Tomte | 3 | 1 |