Map-based place discovery apps
Map-centric apps that help travelers and locals discover, save, share, and track places — from nearby hidden gems and events to GPS-narrated walking tours, visited-places maps, and group trip itineraries.
Built for: Travelers, tourists, and urban explorers
Projects since May 04
358
Different builders
350
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-11%
AI is the core
8.7%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (52%), web app (43%), browser extension (2.0%) · from r/SideProject, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding, r/ShowYourApp
Latest
- Terrastamp — Logs cities a traveler has visited, awards a stamp badge per city, and records ratings across several dimensions like food and safety.“I need beta testers for my trip app (android & apple) - Terrastamp”
- Yo Lo Tengo — Lets users find local businesses and products, save favorites, and keep digital loyalty cards in an iPhone app.“Yo Lo Tengo - iPhone testers wanted for a local-business and loyalty-card beta built in Guatemala”
- CampiUp — Lists camping spots and camping centers in Tunisia on a map and lets users share posts, create hiking or camping events, and join clubs.“I made a camping & hiking community app for Tunisia 🏕️”
- LeaveVox — Lets users attach short voice notes to real-world locations for others to discover nearby.“I'm building an app for leaving voice notes at real places. What would you use it for?”
- How2NewYork Block Report — Generates a one-page report for any NYC address from city open data on complaints, crime, restaurant inspections, street trees and nearby subway status.“Check your NYC block: an address report card built only from city open data”
- Laume — Shows sealed letters on a map and only lets users open a letter within 50 m of where it was left, with the option to leave their own letter at the same spot.“I built an app where letters only open at the spot they were left. Now I need people to light up their cities.”
- RaftOff Social — Provides a social network for boaters and anglers with lake maps, crew finding, groups, event listings, marina info, and a boat and gear marketplace.“Built a Social App for Boaters, Fishermen & Lake Communities”
- geospills — Lets users share and browse location-based posts on a map.“My app have first 5 users in 25 hours”
- FrameSeeker — Helps photographers scout shooting locations in advance beyond what a standard map shows.“Location Scouting App for Landscape Photographers”
- Keep an Eye Out — Lets friends and family share requested items on a private board and send back sightings with photos, links, map locations or notes.“I built an app for the "can you keep an eye out for this?" things that always get forgotten”
- Oriva — Lets users document travels through places, memories and people on a personal map-based social platform instead of an algorithmic feed.“Meet Oriva, the travel-social platform I built because my gf was tired of algorithms”
- GoBe — Lets users unlock location-based notes left by others by physically walking to where they were posted on a fog-covered map.“i built an app where instead of scrolling through a feed, you build it yourself by going outside”
- tourswiper — Lets users swipe through points of interest and builds a walking loop through chosen places within a set time.“I got tired of planning walking routes on vacation, so I built a "Tinder for POIs"”
- Wandrio — Lets users collect map tiles by visiting places in real life and buy tiles that they own permanently, with a name, description and profile picture shown to others.“We are selling tiles on the world map - and have sold over hundred already”
- Locals — Lets users map the places and countries they have visited and share personal spot recommendations with friends on a map.“I built a map to track your travels and share real spots with friends”
- Mano — Shows friends' live locations, user-pinned places, short moments and upcoming events on one social map.“Mano - a social map where you can see your friends, places worth trying, and what's happening around you”
- ArtFinder — Maps street art, murals and sculptures that users pin with photos, ratings and notes, alongside nearby museum and verified art locations.“I built a map app for finding street art, murals and hidden sculptures — would love feedback”
- OpenHikes — Provides offline maps for hiking in remote areas without requiring an account or subscription.“I published an open source offline friendly iOS hiking app”
- Nabolek.no — Helps parents find nearby playgrounds and shows practical details like fencing, toilets, parking, shade and accessibility.“Nabolek.no”
- Lorecast — Plays location-triggered audio stories about nearby places while you drive, with offline downloads for supported routes.“I built Lorecast: GPS audio stories for the places you drive past”
Most discussed
- PointMe — Points the user toward the nearest liquor store using a compass display.“Published my first app! A compass that points to the nearest liquor store”
- Compiss — Points the user toward the nearest public toilet using a compass-style display.“I vibecoded a compass app to find the nearest toilet, called Compiss. Because when you gotta go, you gotta go”
- Shows a parent-friendly status page of the author's current activity, set automatically from phone triggers like location, WiFi, and transit card taps.“Built a status page for my parents so they stop worrying when I don't pick up”
- Walksy — Turns walking routes into a fog-of-war exploration game that reveals the map as the user walks new streets.“My wife and I built a fog-of-war walking app because we couldn't stop imagining one — Walksy”
- My Poop — Maps public bathrooms and lets users rate them on cleanliness, privacy and toilet paper quality, with status reports.“I built an app to find and review public bathrooms — because Google Maps won't tell you if there's toilet paper”
- Atlas — Builds a map of visited countries and cities from the location data in your photo library and resurfaces memories by date.“I built Atlas, a map of everywhere you've been, made automatically from your photos”
- GeoTok — Extracts restaurant and place names from saved TikTok videos and plots them on a map.“I built this trying to save my marriage. Still divorced, but I have an app now.”
- mapthings — Lets users map and save custom points or places on a map.“Here's my little side project - be nice please :)”
- BarHop — Plans a walking route between nearby bars and lets group members track each other live during a night out.“I built a bar crawl route planner. 30 days of analytics later, my assumptions were wrong.”
- Stall — Lets users find public toilets, rate them, and add missing restrooms to a shared map.“i hate using public restrooms so i made yelp for toilets”