Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
ShadeTracker Maps the Shadows You Haven’t Seen Yet
An iPhone app that maps building and tree shadows hour by hour, helping people find sunlight, shade, and UV conditions anywhere on the map.
Why it surfacedShadeTracker turns a frustratingly physical question—“Does this flat get afternoon sun?”—into a timeline you can scrub minute by minute. Its planned toolkit includes annual sunlight maps, tree-aware shadow modeling, editable buildings, UV readings, and saved places, with a working Istanbul demo showing the concept.
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Ham Is Specifically Discouraged
August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.