Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Drop
See how busy places are in real time!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Density for iOS▲459See how busy popular places are in real time.
2015 · density.io · its alternatives →
- 2AM
I am slowly adding more locations now. This is intended to be a crowdsourced map. Everyone is welcome to add more locations and provide comments/votes here. Free people from going to a cafe for work only to leave because there's no wifi, restroom, or outlet!! Demo: https://x.com/KSeisai/status/1708273554041504028?s=20
2023 · octobrain.one · its alternatives →
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Count the number of people around you :family_man_man_boy: by monitoring wifi signals :satellite: - GitHub - schollz/howmanypeoplearearound: Count the number of people around you by monitoring wifi signals :satellite:
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Swarmly▲89Waze for people. See where everyone is in realtime
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Moovit▲91Get the fastest, least crowded routes in real time.
2014 · moovitapp.com · its alternatives →
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The anonymous social network. Now more personalized.
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm Dris, I'm 17, and for the past few months, I've been solo-developing Parkt, an app that lets you quickly reserve or sell parking spots. Parking sucks - it's expensive, hard to find, and you usually overpay or get a ticket. With Parkt, you can reserve parking in 2 taps, or list your unused space in under 5 minutes. It's now free to download on iOS (with Android coming soon)! You can also check out a demo on the site if you're interested. If you know someone who might use Parkt, sharing the app would be super helpful! Feedback is also appreciated.
2024 · parkt.app · its alternatives →
- 10IM
This is our entry in the "spontaneous event creation" ring. I'd love to hear what HN readers think!
2011 · shoutfast.com · its alternatives →
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Trailsense▲34See where people are hiking, without cameras
Jul 2026 · trailsense.at · its alternatives →
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Hey all, we're reposting from our previous Show HN about 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644205 Since then we've grown to more than 5k users across nearly 1k groups and have sent out more than 100k update prompts. The premise is simple - social media stinks and you either don't see updates from people you care about (they never post) or you miss the updates (flooded by other people's updates or an algorithm that downplays an update you'd care about even if it's seemingly unimportant). And we're ramen profitable (more so now that we've migrated the majority…
May 2026 · togetherletters.com · its alternatives →
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5 Min Bro▲11Live location sharing for people who just want to meet.
Jun 2026 · fiveminbro.com · its alternatives →
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Free tool to find and filter busy venues based on predicted crowd levels. This way you can find for example busy bars on Wednesday evening, or quiet museums on Sunday morning. It works in most big cities around the world. It makes it easy to find crowded places (or avoid them) when you are unfamiliar with the area. You can filter on days of the week, how busy a place is (quiet, normal, busy), and sort venues based on overall popularity, rating, dwell time, and price.
2023 · besttime.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, First time posting here. Go easy on me, haha. I made Focus with strangers, a site where you can do pomodoros alongside some random people online for a hit of social pressure. There's a simple todo list built in, and you can chat (or 'shout' as I like to call it) with other participants during the break. If you don't like the idea of interacting with randoms, you can send a link and work with your friends as well. No logins/accounts, free to use. Made using elixir + phoenix, hosted on fly. Any feedback would be welcome!
Oct 2025 · focuswithstrangers.com · its alternatives →
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- 18IB
I recently built an iOS app called Settld: Group Restaurant Finder that helps friends decide where to meet by finding restaurants that are roughly equally far from everyone’s location, and displaying information about them. We’ve all been in chaotic group chats where no one can agree on where to eat — this app cuts through that by calculating a “sweet spot” for the group. For 2 people, it’s the midpoint. For 3 people, it’s the circumcenter. For 4–6 people, it uses a minimum enclosing circle approach (Welzl’s algorithm). It then shows the top 15 nearby options so there’s no more “where do we…
2025 · settld.space · its alternatives →
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I have been running my side project for about over a year now and it has finally logged 1 million votes! The site gets on average, for the past 3 months, 600 users a day with an average bounce rate of 47%. Majority of the traffic comes through StumbleUpon. I posted about the site a while back here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1338487 Site: http://faveone.com
2011 · its alternatives →
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I've been building a bunch of US geography tools/games/visualizations and thought folks on HN might like this one. There are also drive-time and bike-time tools available on the same page. For folks interested, all of the data comes from OpenStreetMap and the US Census at the moment - OSM for routing and points interest and the US Census for population data. Anonymous users can use it 5x/day. I put up a waitlist page to gauge interest in a paid version but there's no way for the public to make an account - feel free to bypass the limits in an incognito tab. The site is US-only…
Jul 2026 · blockatlas.com · its alternatives →
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I've moved around a lot. Finding information is easy. Finding people is weirdly hard. So I made this — a map where you drop a pin and see who else is around. Filter by digital nomads, freelancers, remote workers, retirees. See if they just arrived or have been there for years. Spot someone interesting? Send a message. No signup. No feed. No tracking. No algorithm. Just a map. More like exploring than scrolling. Built with Next.js, Supabase, and Leaflet.
Jan 2026 · mapmates.io · its alternatives →
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http://impromptudo.com is a small project I've been working on. Just a webapp for now but I think it qualifies as an MVP. Also has a mobile version at the same url or http://m.impromptudo.com. Right now it pulls in data from meetup.com for upcoming meetups in several populous cities so it's not just an empty map. You can also click on the map to put up your own post. Trying to stay away from making it all social networky, there are plenty of those already.<p>Finally, I'm not a designer, as you can see.
2010 · impromptudo.com · its alternatives →
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