Local business lead finders
Tools that scrape Google Maps and directories for local businesses, audit their websites and online presence, score them as prospects, and draft outreach messages for freelancers and agencies selling web and marketing services.
Built for: Freelance web designers and small agencies
Projects since May 04
133
Different builders
128
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -25%
AI is the core
14%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (68%), browser extension (8.3%), desktop app (6.0%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding
Latest
- Maps Scraper Pro — Scrapes Google Maps business listings by splitting a city into micro-grid tiles, skipping empty terrain, crawling websites for contact details, and exposing the search through an MCP server.“Bypassing Google Maps' 200 result limit with micro-grids (and connecting it to Claude)”
- Organizes publicly visible business details into structured records, supports resuming interrupted research, and exports them to CSV.“I built a Windows tool that turns repetitive local business research into clean CSVs”
- FlagClash — Ranks businesses in a public leaderboard by the number of real visitors their listed site or X profile brings over seven days.“I made a leaderboard where businesses rank by real visitors, not ad spend”
- Oracle Markets — Lets users enter a company and known competitors, then predicts which competitor is closest in market position.“Track your Competition - predict with 80% Accuracy who is your strongest competitor.”
- MapLeads Pro — Extracts business listings from Google Maps and finds contact emails from their profiles and websites.“Tired of monthly limits on scrapers, so I built MapLeads Pro: A self-hosted Google Maps B2B lead extractor with an email finder”
- Firmscreener — Aggregates business-for-sale listings from dozens of European portals into one filterable, deduplicated list.“Firmscreener – one searchable list of 90,000+ businesses for sale from 35+ portals in 18 European countries”
- Get Found On Google — Offers a free online community where local SEO advice is shared to help small businesses rank in Google's top results.“I made a free Skool community for small business owners who want to rank in Google's top 3”
- Finds businesses showing recent buying signals for a plain-English niche by sweeping hiring boards, maps, forums, ads, social media and review sites, then scores and dates each lead.“I made an agent that finds businesses showing buying signal related to your niche.”
- BuyerCue — Ranks SaaS companies as sales prospects by crawling directories for paid placements and enriching each company's public site with product, pricing, tech stack, and business contact data.“Built a tool to find buyers who ACTUALLY buy”
- Bitz Tracker — Scrapes Google Maps for local businesses, flags those without websites, and tracks leads with notes, follow-ups and one-click WhatsApp outreach.“Built my own local lead scraper and desktop CRM (Bitz Tracker) because existing tools were too bloated”
- PixelNiches — Hosts a visual directory where businesses, products, and creators claim pixel spots on separate niche-specific boards.“A MillionDollarHomepage style directory (with one board per niche)”
- Scrapes Google Maps local business listings for a search query and exports phone numbers and websites to a spreadsheet.“Tired of monthly subscriptions for B2B lead scrapers, so I built a lightweight one-click Playwright tool”
- Siteless — Finds local businesses with missing, bad, or outdated websites to generate sales leads.“Is this the best tool for freelancers right now?”
- dynamis-ai — Scrapes companies from a Google Maps search URL and extracts their contact emails from their websites into a spreadsheet.“I built a lead generation tool thinking my lecturer needed it. She didn't. I tried using it myself and never got a single reply. Here it is anyway.”
- Maps-Scraps — Scrapes Google Maps search results for many queries and saves business info to CSV or PostgreSQL with duplicate checking.“Google Maps Automatic Scraper for leads...”
- HAL — Scans local businesses for website performance and SSL deficits and runs AI-assisted outreach and forecasting for trade contractors.“Roast my new Saas; I have been building for 3 months with no coding knowledge.”
- AtlasForgeX — Pulls companies from official business registers and saves the discovered leads to a local database.“A user hit stop and my app quietly threw away a third of what it had already found”
- Extracts business contacts from Google Maps by city and niche, then manages them on a sales Kanban board with WhatsApp chat and bulk messaging.“I built a prototype combining a Google Maps extractor and a WhatsApp CRM into a single screen to save on software costs. What do you think of the idea?”
- TiruList — Hosts a community directory of Ethiopian and Eritrean businesses and resources where users vouch for their favorite places.“I got 10K Reddit views asking a simple question. The moment I linked my project, it got removed. How would you solve this?”
- LeadRadar — Extracts business listings from an active Google Maps search, flags those without websites, and exports contacts and outreach pitches to CSV.“I got tired of manually clicking 50 Google Maps listings to find who needs a website, so I built a Chrome extension for it”
Most discussed
- Wandoria — Lists companies in a directory where a randomize button sends visitors to a random profile.“What actually drove my first 20 signups and what wasted my time”
- MapMiner — Scrapes local business data from Google Maps and lets users view, filter, and export leads as CSV.“Day 1 of my SaaS: I built a tool to scratch my own itch, and somehow got 2 paying users today”
- TiruList — Hosts a community directory of Ethiopian and Eritrean businesses and resources where users vouch for their favorite places.“I got 10K Reddit views asking a simple question. The moment I linked my project, it got removed. How would you solve this?”
- HungryDevs — Finds local businesses lacking good websites, analyzes their existing sites, drafts outreach messages, and builds a replacement website with an AI builder.“Looking for beta testers for my SaaS”
- UKAgencies.co.uk — Lists UK agencies in a searchable directory organised by city, with paid featured placement for agencies.“Built a UK agency directory from scratch, 920+ listings, 1.16M search impressions in 5 months, no ad spend. Here's where it's at.”
- Scrapes Google Maps business leads, qualifies them with AI, drafts cold emails and replies for client approval, and books calendar appointments.“I built a system to get clients. Then the system became the problem.”
- Outrank Directories List — Provides a curated list of 400 live startup directories with domain rating and backlink type for launch submissions.“I've sold a startup for $8m and now run 5 saas doing $1m+ mrr. this is the first thing I do for SEO”
- Webbin — Generates a professional business website from a Google Maps business profile.“Need honest feedback on my SaaS pricing strategy (SMB website builder)”
- coldstarthq — Finds physical businesses and their email addresses from maps data and sends outreach email from the user's own mailbox.“outreach tool for physical business, looking for a feedback”
- Maps Scraper Pro — Scrapes Google Maps business listings by splitting a city into micro-grid tiles, skipping empty terrain, crawling websites for contact details, and exposing the search through an MCP server.“Bypassing Google Maps' 200 result limit with micro-grids (and connecting it to Claude)”