Mapnews
Your neighborhood's today, pinned on a living map
Hey IH 👋
I'm a solo founder, and I've been building MapNews — a map-based social app for
your neighborhood.
Instead of a follow feed, you open a map and see what neighbors are posting
right around you: local news, spots, events, and everyday street photos
("Today's Neighborhood"). The bet: if enough people drop one photo of their
block, over time it becomes a living, photographic history of a place.
I built the whole thing solo (with AI as my pair programmer) — maps/PostGIS,
editor, ranking, moderation, 11-language i18n with auto-translation, GDPR/PIPA
compliance with one-tap data export. It's live, and I'm launching on Product
Hunt on July 13.
The hard part now is distribution: it's hyperlocal, so density in one
neighborhood matters more than total signups.
How would you approach getting the first 100 active users in a single
neighborhood for something location-based? Would genuinely love your take 🙏
2 Comments
It seems like it will be a great channel for communicating with neighbors and introducing where I live.
thank you for your comment.