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A small web app where people appear on a world map

Details

External ID
46472954
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
A small web app where people appear on a world map
Website domain
mapmates.io
Launched
Jan. 3, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
6
Upvotes percentile
0.2549407114624506
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

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.

Enrichment

Theme
niche social and community platforms
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Communication
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
web app to see people on a world map
Manually corrected
False

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 — 84 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #76 of 85 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 63 days after the earliest competitor.

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