Closeby is to store locators what Stripe is to payments - an easy way to get the UX right for your customers without the engineering hassle of getting a million little invisible things right. Configure, design & publish a store locator for free.
Hi PH community!
We built v1.0 of Closeby almost 8 years ago to solve a problem for a family member’s Squarespace site.
They wanted a store locator for their website, but the options available were pretty basic and came with a lot of UX issues.
So we did what design-UX nerds do best: get obsessed with the problem and iterate continuously on our (now 15k+) customers’ feedback.
Today, Closeby makes a bunch of little things about the store locator experience great. Things like…
- Does the map theme (colors, textures, layers, map pins) match my site UI & brand?
- Is the map interaction and scrolling experience easy? What about on mobile?
- How do I load a map and a bunch of locations without affecting my page’s load time?
- How can I add/remove/edit my locations easily?
- How do I make my visitors’ experiences frictionless for things like…
- Getting directions to locations
- Customizing a location’s call to action
- Serving visitors the sites nearest them (…without invading their privacy)
- **Can I solve all of these UX challenges for my site visitors without becoming a mapping engineer?**
Closeby is our proposed solution to all of those problems (and a few others as well 🙂).
I’d love for you to check it out if you need a store locator. **It’s free for up to 5 locations**, so you can test it out and make sure it fits your use case without having to put in a credit card.
About Closeby on Product Hunt
“A store locator map for your brand”
Closeby launched on Product Hunt on August 14th, 2024 and earned 193 upvotes and 36 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Closeby is to store locators what Stripe is to payments - an easy way to get the UX right for your customers without the engineering hassle of getting a million little invisible things right. Configure, design & publish a store locator for free.
On the analytics side, Closeby competes within Design Tools, Website Builder and E-Commerce — topics that collectively have 310.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Closeby performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Closeby?
Closeby was hunted by Brian McGuiness. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Closeby including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Brian McGuiness