Our Solar System
A browser-based 3D atlas of the solar system with real orbital motion.
Tagline
The solar system, in motion.
A browser atlas for teaching astronomy live.
Turn space questions into direct exploration.
See orbital mechanics without the textbook fog.
The web-native solar system atlas that turns astronomy questions into direct exploration.
This is not just a model; the site explicitly pairs a 3D viewer with fact pages, comparisons, moon directories, and one-click jumps, which supports atlas-style discovery.
The alternative to static planet posters and clunky desktop planetarium software.
The strongest product proof is browser-only access, no signup, fast load, and interactive controls. That makes it a cleaner replacement for offline apps and classroom wall charts.
A science-first visualizer for explaining orbital mechanics, scale, and planetary context.
The product emphasizes real motion, live telemetry, and scale controls, which positions it as a teaching tool for understanding why planets behave and appear the way they do.
Primary user
Middle-school to high-school astronomy teachers who want a live, visual way to teach the solar system
ICP #1
High-school physics or earth science teacher preparing a solar system unit
Pain
They need something more engaging than textbook diagrams, but most planet visuals are either static, inaccurate, or require installing software the school IT team will block.
Why this solves
This runs in the browser with no signup, loads quickly, and gives them a clickable, real-time 3D solar system plus science telemetry they can project in class.
ICP #2
Museum or planetarium educator building an interactive kiosk or floor demo
Pain
They need an exhibit-style experience that looks polished, supports exploration, and can answer visitor questions about sizes, distances, moons, and comparisons without manual narration.
Why this solves
The product already includes body facts, comparisons, moon pages, and fly-through exploration, making it a ready-made interactive reference experience for public audiences.
ICP #3
STEM content creator or science blogger making explainers about planetary science
Pain
They need visuals that make points like 'Venus is hotter than Mercury' or 'Saturn's rings are incredibly thin' feel intuitive, not just stated.
Why this solves
The compare pages, ranked lists, science overlay, and realistic scale slider are built for contextual storytelling rather than just pretty rendering.
Strengths
- +The page does an excellent job proving depth: viewer, body pages, compare pages, moons pages, ranked lists, and blog content all reinforce one ecosystem.
- +The feature claims are concrete and visual, especially the science overlay, fly mode, and realistic scale slider.
- +The copy has memorable lines that make the product feel more like an experience than a utility.
Weaknesses
- −The page is trying to speak to everyone at once: educators, astronomy fans, casual explorers, and technically minded users, but it does not clearly pick a buyer or use case.
- −The landing page leans heavily on feature inventory instead of a crisp primary outcome, so a new visitor has to infer why they should care.
- −There is no strong classroom, museum, or consumer CTA hierarchy beyond "Open the viewer," which makes conversion intent fuzzy.
- −The product sounds impressive, but the page underplays proof points like accuracy scope, performance on low-end devices, and what is actually included versus aspirational.
- −The comparisons and topics are valuable, but the page does not surface the highest-value entry points for different audiences.
Fix these
- Choose one primary wedge on the homepage, most likely education, and write the hero around that job to be done.
- Add audience-specific entry points such as "For teachers," "For students," and "For science creators" with tailored proof and use cases.
- Show the product in motion sooner with a short GIF or embedded interaction snippet demonstrating fly mode and the science overlay.
- Rewrite the value proposition around outcomes like teaching, explaining, or exploring instead of listing technologies like Three.js and WebGL.
- Create one or two landing-page variants for the strongest adjacent markets: classroom use and museum/planetarium use.
Drop-in replacement copy
Headline
Teach the solar system live.
Browser-based 3D exploration with real orbital motion and science telemetry.
Show astronomy in motion, not on a poster
Open a real-time 3D solar system in the browser and let students see planets, moons, comets, and probes moving as they actually do. It turns abstract space lessons into something you can point at.
Answer the next question instantly
Jump from any body into facts, moons, comparisons, and missions without leaving the atlas. When someone asks why Venus is hotter than Mercury, the answer is already one click away.
Make scale feel real
Use realistic scale mode and adjustable time speed to show the uncomfortable truth about distance and size in space. It makes the solar system feel enormous in a way charts never do.
Project-ready for classrooms and demos
No install. No signup. Fast in the browser, with fly mode, gravity, and telemetry that works well for class projection, museum kiosks, and science explainers.
FAQ
Is this accurate enough for teaching?
The core focus is astronomy education, so the viewer emphasizes real orbital motion, scale, and science context. It is designed to help explain the solar system clearly, not just look pretty.
Do students need to install anything?
No. It runs in the browser, so teachers can open it on the web and project it immediately.
What can I explore besides the planets?
You can explore major moons, comets, the asteroid belt, selected probes, and comparison pages for topics like rings, hottest planets, and moons.
Does it work on classroom laptops?
Yes, the goal is browser-first access with quick loading and no desktop installation. It is built to be easier to adopt than traditional planetarium software.
Who is this for?
Primary users are middle-school to high-school teachers, but it also works for museum educators, STEM creators, and space enthusiasts who want a deeper visual reference.
Saturn's rings are sub-pixel thin. I built Our Solar System: a browser-based 3D atlas with real orbital motion, science telemetry, fly mode, and body pages. No install. No signup. Just open it and take the long way round.
Teachers keep asking for better visuals. So I built a solar system viewer that runs in the browser, shows real motion, and lets you jump from a planet to its moons, facts, comparisons, and probes. Built for classrooms first.
Browser 3D is the easy part. The hard part is making space feel true: orbital motion, scale, fly mode with momentum, live telemetry, and a UI that doesn't collapse under all the data. Still polishing. Still shipping.
Most planet charts lie by omission. They show circles. They hide motion, scale, moons, probes, and the weird stuff that makes astronomy interesting. Our Solar System tries to fix that with an atlas, not a poster.
Textbook diagrams kill curiosity fast. If you're teaching the solar system, you want something live, visual, and accurate enough to answer the next question without losing the room. That's the gap this fills.
Clunky planetarium software gets blocked. School IT hates installs. Teachers hate waiting. Students hate static slides. So this runs in the browser, loads fast, and opens straight into a real 3D solar system.
Watch Venus outrun Earth. Our Solar System shows real orbital motion in the browser, plus a science overlay for phase, distance, velocity, and orbital period. It makes the invisible stuff obvious.
Fly through the solar system live. Use gravity, momentum, and orbit stabilisation to move around like you're actually there. Then drop from a planet into its moons, facts, comparisons, or missions.
The best demos answer questions. This one is built for "How big is it?", "How far is it?", "Why is Venus hotter?", and "What moons does it have?" That is what teachers and creators actually need.
Built for people who teach space. Classroom projection. Museum kiosk. Planetarium side demo. Science explainer. If your audience needs to see the solar system instead of just hear about it, this is for you.
Angle: education wedge for teachers
I built Our Solar System for a very specific job: helping teachers teach the solar system without relying on static diagrams or clunky software installs. It runs in the browser. No signup. No IT ticket. Just open it and you get a real-time 3D solar system with orbital motion, body pages, moon directories, comparisons, and a science overlay with live telemetry. That matters in class because students do not remember lists. They remember motion. They remember seeing Venus move faster than Earth. They remember Saturn's rings being absurdly thin. They remember that scale in space is hostile to intuition. The product is still expanding, but the core idea is simple: make astronomy feel explorable, not memorized. If you teach middle school, high school, or run a science exhibit, I'd love feedback on what would make this genuinely useful in your workflow.
Angle: museum/planetarium experience
A lot of space software is impressive for the wrong reason. It looks polished, but it is not built for the actual questions people ask in front of a screen. I wanted to make something closer to an exhibit than a toy. Our Solar System is a browser-based 3D atlas with real orbital motion, body pages, comparisons, moons, selected probes, and a fly mode that lets you move around with gravity and momentum. So if someone asks: • Why is Venus hotter than Mercury? • How thin are Saturn's rings? • How many moons does Jupiter have? • What is the scale difference between planets? You can answer by exploring, not narrating from memory. That is the bar I think educational astronomy tools should meet. If you work in a museum, planetarium, or informal science setting, I would especially want to know what would make this kiosk-ready.
Angle: science creator / explainer angle
The best science visuals do not just look good. They make a claim feel obvious. That was the goal with Our Solar System: a web-native atlas for explaining orbital mechanics, scale, planetary context, and the weird facts that make space worth talking about. Instead of another flat chart, it gives you: • real orbital motion • a science overlay with distance, velocity, phase, and period • comparisons and ranked pages • body pages with facts, atmosphere, surface, moons, and missions • a realistic scale mode when you want the hard truth I built it because creators and teachers keep needing the same thing: visuals that can carry the explanation. If you make astronomy content, I'd be curious which comparisons or topic pages you'd want first.
Tagline
Browser solar system atlas with real orbital motion
Description
Explore the solar system in a browser with real motion, live telemetry, fly mode, and deep pages for planets, moons, comets, and probes. Built for teachers, students, and space nerds who want answers fast.
Maker's first comment
I built Our Solar System because I kept seeing the same problem: astronomy is full of beautiful facts, but most visuals are either static, inaccurate, or painful to use in class. A teacher should be able to open a tab and instantly show real orbital motion, sizes, distances, moons, and comparisons without installing anything or fighting school IT. This started as a personal obsession with making space feel understandable instead of abstract. The more I worked on it, the more obvious it became that the product had to be useful first: quick to load, browser-only, and organized around the questions people actually ask. Why is Venus hotter than Mercury? How thin are Saturn's rings? What moons does Jupiter have? The viewer, body pages, comparisons, and science overlay all exist to answer those questions directly. I’m launching this now because I want feedback from the people who would actually use it in teaching, exhibits, or explainers. I’m especially looking for the parts that make it most useful in a real classroom or presentation, and the parts that feel like nice-to-have extras.
Pinned maker comment
I’d love feedback on the classroom workflow: what should be one click away, what deserves its own page, and what would make this genuinely worth using instead of a textbook or static chart?
Meta
Teachers need better solar system visuals.
Hypothesis: middle-school and high-school science teachers will engage more when the solar system is interactive, browser-based, and ready to project in class. Our Solar System shows real orbital motion, moon pages, comparisons, and live telemetry without installs or signup.
Google Search
solar system simulation for classroom
Hypothesis: educators searching for a classroom-ready solar system simulation want fast browser access, not desktop software. Our Solar System gives you a real-time 3D atlas with planetary motion, science overlay, comparisons, and body pages for lesson prep.
Reddit Promoted
Static planet charts are not enough.
Hypothesis: astronomy teachers, STEM creators, and space hobbyists in education communities want a visual reference that answers questions in motion. Our Solar System runs in the browser and combines real orbital motion, fly mode, and deep planet/moon pages.
Subreddits
r/sideproject
Show the build story and the browser-based 3D viewer with a short demo clip; frame it as a tool for explaining orbital motion, not a generic launch.
Rules: No blatant spam; share what you built, how you built it, and what feedback you want.
r/indiehackers
Share the product as a niche educational tool and talk about narrowing from 'space app' to 'classroom astronomy atlas.'
Rules: Be transparent, include lessons learned, and avoid pure promotion without context.
r/microsaas
Position it as a focused web product with a clear audience: teachers, museums, and science creators.
Rules: Keep it concise, include product decisions, and avoid posting only a sales pitch.
r/astronomy
Lead with the science and accuracy angle: real orbital motion, comparisons, and moon directories for learning and exploration.
Rules: Read the rules carefully; avoid self-promo framing, emphasize educational value, and participate before posting.
r/teaching
Ask teachers for feedback on whether a browser-based solar system atlas would help with projection, demos, or lesson hooks.
Rules: Focus on classroom usefulness and discussion, not just product promotion.
Communities
Post the narrow wedge, the user problem, and the conversion lesson. Then reply fast to every comment with specifics about teacher workflows and product choices.
Share build updates, screenshots, and a short clip before launch day. Ask for honest feedback on positioning, not compliments.
Teacher subreddit and educator forums
Join discussions about astronomy units, visualization tools, and lesson engagement. Offer the tool only after giving useful classroom ideas or resources.
Science communicators on Discord
Find science creator and edtech Discords, then share a demo clip plus a specific use case like 'explain why Venus is hotter than Mercury' instead of dropping a link cold.
Cold outreach template
Hi {firstName} - I built a browser-based solar system atlas for people teaching or explaining astronomy, and I thought of you because {context}. It shows real orbital motion, moon pages, comparisons, and live telemetry without installs or signup. If useful, I’d love to send you a 20-second demo and get your blunt feedback.
Product Hunt timing
Launch on Tuesday at 12:01 AM Pacific Time. That gives you the full PH day, catches US educators and makers in the morning, and still gives you overlap with Europe for early traction before the daily leaderboard settles.
Indie Hackers post ideas
- 01I narrowed a 'space app' into a classroom tool. Here's why.
- 02What I learned building real orbital motion in the browser.
- 03How I designed a solar system atlas around actual user questions.
Competitor alternatives
Current tone of voice
Clear, confident, and lightly dramatic with a science-nerd voice; for example, "Saturn's rings, sub-pixel thin." and "Take the long way round."
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