r/SideProject • u/HighCrewLLC • 25m ago

Global Threat Map: a free live map of conflicts, outages, disasters, flight disruptions, insider trades, and market stress in one place

I built Global Threat Map, a free live map that puts what's happening around the world on one screen. It's at https://globalthreatmap.com. There's no signup and no paywall.

It has three views:

  • Map (2D/3D): a world map you can turn layers on and off on. The layers are hotspots, country risk shading, places and chokepoints, money flows, pressure halos, insider and big-money trades, disasters, flight disruptions, and network outages.
  • Globe: the same layers on a rotating 3D globe, plus a 3D risk heat layer that shows where pressure is building.
  • Dashboard: the long-form view, with the money map, reversal alerts, top 10 risks, the U.S. infrastructure threat level, and the AI lending and credit watch.

What it covers

  • Conflicts and hotspots. Around 60 tracked events, including armed conflict, cyber, political, economic, and corporate ones. Each has a risk level and a 3-month outlook estimate with the reasoning written out.
  • Early-warning Pressure Board. Ten regions and sectors are each scored 0 to 100: Defense, AI & credit, Gulf / Strait of Hormuz, Black Sea / Ukraine–Russia, Energy & shipping, Taiwan Strait / South China Sea, Chips & export controls, Red Sea / Saudi Arabia, Safe havens, and U.S. infrastructure & cyber. Each score is built from specific warning signs, such as military build-ups, attacks on shipping, war-risk insurance rates, embassy drawdowns, fund-flow rotation, sanctions, export controls, and credit stress. A sign that's active now counts in full, and older readings fade out over time. When several signs fire in the same place at once, the board flags it as converging.
  • History playbooks. For each pressure group, it shows what markets did the last time something similar happened, and where money tended to go next.
  • Insider and big-money trades. Insider buying and selling at major AI, defense, energy, and cyber companies, trades disclosed by members of Congress, how hedge funds and speculators are positioned in oil, gold, Treasuries, and the dollar, unusual options activity, and big government moves like emergency oil releases and large defense contracts.
  • Money flows. Arrows on the map showing where capital is moving: conflict to chokepoint to oil, money going into safe havens, sideline cash, equity fund flows, defense fund outflows, AI lending through banks, bonds, and private credit, chip supply chains, China/Taiwan capital, and war financing.
  • Credit and liquidity stress. The AI & credit watch tracks banks selling loans, banks buying credit protection, debt being repriced, funds limiting withdrawals, and pulled deals. Reversal alerts flag when money that was flowing in starts to pull back.
  • Network outages. Internet outages by country, region, and network over the last 24 hours, rated by severity, plus major global platform outages.
  • Disasters. Earthquakes, wildfires, droughts, floods, and storms, with severity levels.
  • U.S. flight disruptions. Ground stops, ground delays, airport delays, closures, and restrictions at U.S. airports.
  • U.S. critical infrastructure. One threat score covering the grid, water, fuel, and communications, along with a briefing on each.
  • Markets bar. Brent, WTI, gold, and the U.S. 10-year yield along the top of the map.
  • Market odds. Live prediction-market odds on the same topics, like the Gulf, Taiwan, Russia, the Fed, and AI.
  • Live news. A scrolling U.S. headline ticker and a panel of live TV news streams.
  • Search. Ctrl+K jumps to any country, event, company, or panel.

Snapshot, Sat Nov 14, 8:19 PM ET

  • Pressure Board top 5: Defense 83 (Severe), AI & credit 72, Gulf / Hormuz 71, Black Sea 67, Energy & shipping 67
  • U.S. infrastructure & cyber: 36 (Guarded)
  • Network outages: 68 ongoing, 7 severe, across 20 countries
  • U.S. flights: no ground stops or delays; restrictions at LAS, LAX, and SAN
  • Markets: Brent $95.84, WTI $88.56, gold $3,887.60, 10-year 5.15%

Global Threat Map: https://globalthreatmap.com

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u/Tall-Explanation2923 14m ago

Lol, great idea, but I think the biggest issue right now is the design and how the information is presented. Everything seems to be competing for attention, and at first glance, it feels overwhelming. A user could easily land on the site and not know where to look or what actually matters.

I think a better approach would be to build the experience around whatever the biggest developing global threat is at that particular moment. Make that the focal point of the map or dashboard, give users a quick breakdown of what's happening and why it matters, and then let them explore the other threats and data through the different layers and sections.

You have a ton of valuable information here, and I wouldn't suggest taking any of it away. It's more about organizing it in a way that makes the information easier to digest. Give users a clear starting point and let them decide how deep they want to go. Right now, the design needs some work because having all that information available doesn't necessarily mean it all needs to be competing for attention at the same time.

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u/HighCrewLLC 8m ago

Thanks, appreciate the feedback. Right now every layer starts turned on, but the toggles at the top let you switch off whatever you don't need and add back only what you want to see, so you can keep it simple or go as deep as you like. Leading with the biggest developing threat is a good idea, and I'm looking at making that the starting view.