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MapDice

I replaced dice rolls with real map routing multiplayer

This is 1 of 188 launches in travel planning and navigation tools — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →

86 other launches read as similar to this one →

Details

External ID
1267025
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
MapDice
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Oct. 2, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
3
Upvotes percentile
0.9069230769230769
Tags
Board Games, Maps, Games
Fetched at
Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Updated at
Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.

Description

In MapDice, movement is grounded in real map distances. Instead of rolling, you are constantly making tactical choices at intersections—weighing the risk of a shortcut against the danger of getting captured by an opponent waiting on the route.

Enrichment

Theme
travel planning and navigation tools
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Workflow automation
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
multiplayer board game using real map routes
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes A browser game combining a mapping library (like Mapbox or Leaflet) with routing engines (like OSRM or OpenRouteService) and a simple WebSockets multiplayer backend.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 86 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #7 of 87 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.

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