Map drawing tool where the map lives in the URL
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For the past 2 years, my girlfriend and I have been software engineers at CERN working for the ALICE and CMS experiments. A few months ago we decided to leave and focus full time on building our own products as we realised we'll never make the jump otherwise. Draw on a Map is the first one we've shipped and it already has nearly 300 users.Draw on a Map doesn't need an account for you to draw and share, and the map stays in the URL fragment (not sent to the server) when not logged in. You can open, draw, share in a matter of 30 seconds.The app is built on top of Cloudflare and using the data from OpenStreetMap. We wanted something lean that doesn't require a big time investment to learn how to use.Would highly appreciate any feedback!
HN · launched May 27, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 51%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive mapping platforms · 191 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 191 launches in interactive mapping platforms →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a frontend mapping application combining a map library like MapLibre or Leaflet with compressed GeoJSON/drawing state serialized into the URL hash.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 81 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 82 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 184 days after the earliest competitor.
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- My Tizen multiplayer drawing game flopped, but then hit 100M drawings · hn · 2025-12-16 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Mindmap AI · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Cartaveo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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