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Boy and a Scanner
AI-powered scanner frequency assistant for hobbyists
Boy and a Scanner is the world's first AI-powered scanner frequency assistant for public safety hobbyists, preppers, and ham radio fans. Paste any ZIP or city to get instant police/fire/EMS frequencies with one-tap programming guides for your scanner. AI cross-references RadioReference so you never program dead channels. Route Recon Trip Planner maps frequencies along your entire route. 1,377+ community-indexed locations.
Hey Product Hunt! I built Boy and a Scanner because getting started with a police scanner is WAY harder than it should be.
You buy a Uniden SDS100 and then spend hours on forums, 10 different websites, and dead Reddit threads trying to figure out what frequencies to program for your city. RadioReference exists but it's overwhelming and doesn't tell you what to actually do with the data.
Boy and a Scanner fixes this: paste your ZIP code, get your local police/fire/EMS frequencies with exact step-by-step programming instructions for your scanner model. The AI cross-references RadioReference to filter out inactive channels.
The Route Recon Trip Planner is my favorite feature - road trippers and truckers can map every trunked system along their route automatically. Currently 1,377+ locations indexed.
Solo builder from a 43-foot fifth wheel. AMA!
About Boy and a Scanner on Product Hunt
“AI-powered scanner frequency assistant for hobbyists”
Boy and a Scanner was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 1 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Boy and a Scanner is the world's first AI-powered scanner frequency assistant for public safety hobbyists, preppers, and ham radio fans. Paste any ZIP or city to get instant police/fire/EMS frequencies with one-tap programming guides for your scanner. AI cross-references RadioReference so you never program dead channels. Route Recon Trip Planner maps frequencies along your entire route. 1,377+ community-indexed locations.
On the analytics side, Boy and a Scanner competes within Productivity, Artificial Intelligence and Maps — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Boy and a Scanner performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Boy and a Scanner?
Boy and a Scanner was hunted by David J Woodbury. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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