The maritime industry is locked behind paywalls. Critical supply chain data—port congestion, route efficiency, and flow metrics—is usually sold for thousands of dollars a month by massive corporate aggregators.
I believe this intelligence belongs to everyone.
Ocean Pulse is a technical playground turned public utility. It is an experiment in extreme efficiency: providing enterprise-grade supply chain visibility on a non-profit budget.
There is no sales team. There is no board of directors. Ocean Pulse is built and funded by a single developer.
> Austria based
> Self/Donation-Funded Infrastructure
Ocean Pulse exists to remove barriers to maritime intelligence. Knowledge about global trade, movement, and infrastructure should not be reserved for those who can afford it—it should be accessible to anyone who wants to understand the world.
The API uptime and data quality rival commercial competitors. But the operation is strictly non-commercial. Donations go directly to server costs, not profit margins.
We don't sell "proprietary magic." We provide indexes based on publicly verifiable vessel movements.
The "Scout" tier isn't a trial—it's a promise. Access to high-level maritime data will remain free for students, researchers, and developers forever.
Processing global shipping data requires significant storage and compute power. I fund this personally, but as the user base grows, so do the server bills.