Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to How far do I have to go to run into 100k people?
How far must a 5° slice go in each direction before it hits N people?
This tool calculates the distance you need to travel to encounter 100,000 people based on population density data. It's designed for anyone curious about demographics and geography, whether for planning purposes or… 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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The quickest and easiest territory mapping software that you ever used. Trusted by more than 1000 customers for data-driven decisions
2018 · oalley.net · its alternatives →
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Density▲381A modern infrastructure for anonymously counting people
2016 · density.io · its alternatives →
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Density shows you how people use your space and helps you get more out of every square foot.
2015 · density.io · 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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Density Platform▲344Count people anonymously and integrate the data anywhere
2015 · density.io · its alternatives →
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Location Finder▲188Find the optimal location to meet with your remote team
2019 · finder.surfoffice.com · its alternatives →
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Manymap▲577Route planner for explorers with real-time collaboration
2023 · mapmagic.app · its alternatives →
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For the past few months, I've been working on a website that answers two different questions: - Where in my city have the best travel times to all the things and people I care about? - Given a listing, how far is it from all the things and people I care about? Personally this was fueled by my own frustrations when I was apartment hunting in NYC. I was frustrating to have to juggle so many Google Maps tabs when I was evaluating a listing, and it was also annoying to not have full confidence that I was even searching in the right places. I wanted to be close to work, a Trader Joe's, and a…
2025 · theretowhere.com · its alternatives →
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Earth looked very different long ago. Search for addresses across 750 million years of Earth
2018 · dinosaurpictures.org · its alternatives →
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Use everyday objects to measure your social distance
2020 · air.inc · its alternatives →
- 12G7
2014 · locationawarenames.org · its alternatives →
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City comparison tool to see how far your salary will go
2017 · nerdwallet.com · 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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Discover the closest and farthest cities from any city in the world. Compare city extremes by continent, distance and population.
2017 · cityextremes.com · its alternatives →
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Your life in numbers and dates. How long will you live?
2015 · population.io · its alternatives →
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The new standard for counting people in open space.
2020 · density.io · its alternatives →
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Track up to 100 people simultaneously
2023 · zocalapp.com · its alternatives →
- 20SC
2015 · statisticalatlas.com · its alternatives →
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- 22WP
2014 · roadtolarissa.com · its alternatives →
- 23IB
I built this because measuring my age in years felt boring—I wanted to see the kilometers. The first version only used Earth's orbital speed (~30km/s), but the number moved too slowly. To get the "existential dread" feeling, I switched to using the Milky Way's velocity relative to the CMB (~600km/s). The math takes some liberties (using scalar sum instead of vector) to make the speed feel "fast," but it gets the point across. Under the hood, it's a single HTML file with zero dependencies. No React, no build step. The main challenge was the canvas starfield—I had to pre-allocate the…
Jan 2026 · cosmic-odometer.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Calculate your running pace, time & distance online
2025 · joincentury.app · its alternatives →
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