Free Google Places API alternative using OpenStreetMap (no API key)
Details
- External ID
- 48081775
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Free Google Places API alternative using OpenStreetMap (no API key)
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- May 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5516962843295639
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- google places api alternative using openstreetmap
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight REST API and MCP wrapper hosted on serverless infrastructure that queries public OpenStreetMap APIs to return categorized business locations in JSON format.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Places
Concerns raised: High pricing ($275/month)
Competitors
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Attention rank: #26 of 67 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 193 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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