Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Placekey
Unique ID for all physical places
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Placekey launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi, HN, I'm Roshan and I'm part of the team that's launching the Placekey today at https://placekey.io. It is a free and open universal standard identifier we built so that data pertaining to places can be shared across organizations easily. A Placekey is a short identifier that has Address and POI sections detailing What is at a place and a section describing Where on the globe the place is. Eventually, there will be a Placekey for every place in the world, even those without postal addresses. US geospatial data from a large array of partners…
2020 · its alternatives →
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- 5G7
2014 · locationawarenames.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN - I made a site that takes a UK postcode, grabs the local MP's information and generates an AI mockup of what their ID might look like. It's a small, silly protest at the stupidity of the Online Safety Act that just came into force. edit - My open AI credits got hugged to death, please use a known postcode (like one from Kier Starmer's constituency, WC2B6NH) in the meantime.
2025 · use-their-id.com · its alternatives →
- 7PC
A little while back I remember seeing a user on a certain anonymous imageboard asking for an invite to a selective email host. Only after a few minutes did the guy realize the perplexity of the situation. How do you insure against a race condition in a public forum with no way to direct message? Luckily, he nabbed the invite code, but it got me thinking about using PGP to provide a solution. This is meant to be a rough PoC and the UX is definitely not ready for the average Joe, but the functionality I'd like to think is there. What catbox.moe is to dropbox is what I'd like this to eventually…
2022 · pubkey.pm · its alternatives →
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Xaddress - Give 7 billion people an instant physical address - roberdam/Xaddress
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lightweight API service to get geolocation data from IP addresses. - risk3sixty/geoapi
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automate and personalize direct mail at scale while our nationwide print network speeds delivery, controls postage costs, and keeps every send compliant.
2013 · lob.com · its alternatives →
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Timeflake is a 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUID. - anthonynsimon/timeflake
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Find anyone's email address
2021 · mailmeteor.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, with mapname you can create a unique name for any particular point of interest as in prefix(id).group(optional).suffix. Once a mapname created then this can be used as an address, discovered and socialised. Mapname is free and has no advertisements. At onboarding pick a unique prefix. That is all about onboarding. Users can also organise collection of places with just two words, for example coffee shops i like at NY is abc.1 or I have visited Melbourne last year where you can see at abc.melbourne Mapname designed as an anonymous Social Network where users particular perspective…
2023 · map.name · its alternatives →
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Organize and identify physical keys — no accounts required
Feb 2026 · keymatchpro.ca · its alternatives →
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PlaceholderJS▲146Ridiculously simple and lightweight placeholders
2024 · placeholderjs.com · its alternatives →
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Use your NFTs to discover nearby places
2022 · superlocal.com · its alternatives →
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Decentralized, k-ordered unique IDs in Clojure. Contribute to maxcountryman/flake development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rent AI Key▲69Rent real keyboard keys that redirect to your link
Apr 2026 · rentaikey.com · its alternatives →
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Generate fake addresses and random addresses instantly for testing
2025 · randomaddressgen.com · its alternatives →
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