Customers ask AI "best dentist near me" — but most local businesses are invisible to ChatGPT. findloc.ai gives you a free AI-visible mini-page with schema, FAQ & structured data so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI can actually cite you.
Hi HN,
I built findloc.ai because every time I thought about opening
something — a café, a laundromat — Google Maps was useless for
the actual question: "Where in this city does this make sense?"
Click any city block, and you see:
- How many cafés/restaurants/competitors are within 250m / 500m / 1km
- What kinds of shops cluster nearby
- Per-block research factors tuned to YOUR business type (28 types
supported — laundromat cares about residential density; cafés care
about office workers; bars care about evening foot traffic)
- Side-by-side comparison of two blocks against the same checklist
All powered by live OpenStreetMap data via Overpass, with H3
hexagonal binning for the density grid. The whole site is free,
no signup, no tracking, no paywall — and it works anywhere on
Earth that OSM covers (most places, in practice).
Stack: Next.js 14, MapLibre GL, h3-js, deck.gl, OSM, NASA basemap.
700+ programmatic SEO pages for city × business-type research
guides. Self-hosted, ~$20/mo to run on Vercel.
I'd love feedback — especially from anyone who's gone through
actual site selection. What did the existing tools miss? What
would you want to see on a block before signing a lease?
Try it: https://findloc.ai
Browse guides: https://findloc.ai/research
The block-level comparison is the strongest part here. For local businesses, “is this a good city?” is much less useful than “does this exact street make sense for my business type?”
About findloc.ai on Product Hunt
“Make your business citable by ChatGPT, Claude & Perplexity”
findloc.ai launched on Product Hunt on June 2nd, 2026 and earned 81 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. Customers ask AI "best dentist near me" — but most local businesses are invisible to ChatGPT. findloc.ai gives you a free AI-visible mini-page with schema, FAQ & structured data so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI can actually cite you.
findloc.ai was featured in Marketing (464.3k followers), SEO (37.7k followers) and Maps (12.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 84k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted findloc.ai ?
findloc.ai was hunted by Daniel Duan. 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.
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