A site where anyone can rename any location on Earth
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Click any city, mountain, country, sea or whatever on a globe, propose a new name, community votes (or your proposal gets auto-accepted in a few minutes if nobody cares).It's live now and I'm genuinely curious what happens when strangers on the internet get collective control over world geography. Either it becomes something interesting or it turns into a mess of edgy jokes, stereotypes, and stuff that will make me regret this whole idea
HN · launched Feb 1, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 72%) · 0 views
Niche: novelty and humor web apps · 188 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -53% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Other products that read as similar to this one : 115 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #102 of 116 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 95 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built a map where anyone can rename anything · hn · 2026-02-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Rename The World · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I built a site that shows every world event you lived through · hn · 2026-04-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Odd Orbit, live 3D globe of quakes, weather, satellites and UFO reports · hn · 2026-10-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Lastwordonearth.com · hn · 2026-06-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- LandmarkGuessr · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- placefile · github · 2026-11-08 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- World Wall · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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