Geocode the planet(630M addresses), indexed in 5h on a 9 GB RAM budget
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HN · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 86%) · 0 views
Niche: llm inference engines · 133 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Geocoding is a known problem with open address data such as OSM and OpenAddresses. The hard part is the systems engineering needed to index 630M addresses in a small memory budget, plus data cleaning.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a compact on-disk index such as FST, a tiled or sharded inverted index, and careful parsing and normalization of messy multi-country address data. Performance tuning for low memory and fast build times requires experienced systems engineers.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #495 of 624 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 381 days after the earliest competitor.
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