Drakkar.one
Google Maps embed replacement, no API keys, GDPR-ready
Details
- External ID
- 47411827
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Drakkar.one
- Website domain
- drakkar.one
- Launched
- March 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5393603936039361
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Embeddable map widget for business websites. One script tag, no Google account, no cookies.OpenStreetMap tiles served as Protomaps PMTiles from Cloudflare R2. The whole serving layer runs on edge with no tile server. Infrastructure cost is ~€7/month regardless of traffic because R2 has no egress fees.Built it because Google Maps embeds in Europe are a GDPR headache (cookies, third-party domains, consent barriers), and they show your competitors on your own website.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- google maps embed replacement without api keys
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The service wraps open-source Protomaps/MapLibre components and serves PMTiles files directly out of Cloudflare R2 using standard edge workers and an embeddable script.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Maps, Other GDPR-friendly mapping solutions
Concerns raised: R2 still charges for read/write operations despite no egress fees, Hosting on US-based companies (Cloudflare, GitHub, Amazon) contradicts GDPR positioning, Missing terms of service and privacy policy, Unclear value proposition vs. traditional code integration
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 26 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 27 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 73 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Tileserver-RS · hn · 2026-04-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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- RutaGuía · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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- Low Poly Earth · hn · 2026-09-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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- No other launches for this product.
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