findloc.ai - Make your business citable by ChatGPT, Claude & Perplexity

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