A small web app where people appear on a world map
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I've moved around a lot. Finding information is easy. Finding people is weirdly hard.So I made this — a map where you drop a pin and see who else is around.Filter by digital nomads, freelancers, remote workers, retirees. See if they just arrived or have been there for years.Spot someone interesting? Send a message.No signup. No feed. No tracking. No algorithm. Just a map.More like exploring than scrolling.Built with Next.js, Supabase, and Leaflet.
HN · launched Jan 3, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 75%) · 0 views
Niche: social discovery and meetup apps · 159 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -20% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 159 launches in social discovery and meetup apps →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard social directory web app combining interactive map pins (e.g. Mapbox/Leaflet), basic authentication, and simple CRUD messaging.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Real-time visitor location globe tool (commenter's similar product)
Concerns raised: Connection scaling costs with many concurrent WebSocket users, Pin clustering behavior becomes chaotic at higher zoom levels
Feature requests: Show trail or fade-out animation when users leave instead of instant disappearance, Clarify clustering algorithm (quadtree vs distance-based)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 201 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #183 of 202 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 63 days after the earliest competitor.
- Map · github · 2026-10-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- whereToGo · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- SoloSquare Travel Map · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- OutMap · hn · 2026-08-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- TapMap · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- TravelMapVisited · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I got tired of travel spreadsheets so I made a travel planner app · hn · 2026-10-29 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- WaypointNomad · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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