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Discussion on: I Couldn’t Afford Earth, So I Built Something Better

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Archit Mittal

The title alone deserves an upvote. Building your own version of something because the existing options are too expensive or too locked down is peak developer energy. This is exactly how some of the best open-source tools got started - someone looked at the price tag, said 'no thanks,' and built something better. What's the rendering approach? Are you using WebGL/Three.js for the globe, or did you go with something like Cesium or Mapbox GL?

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Konark Sharma

Thank you so much Archit.

This is the future of real estate as explained by aliens. When people get bored on Earth they will move to buy other planets than only my website will be helpful for everyone.

I Vibe coded the website and did the necessary changes in the images and the code. Kept it simple and with just explorer friendly. I didn't gave it prompt to use WebGL/Three.js. I kept it simple and added this 'A fully interactive circular orbital carousel' so it's more like a carousel and works like that. You can see GitHub for the code.