Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Transform Your City
Hey HN, As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets. It's "change.org for urban transformation". It started with a Twitter account posting Dall-E-ified versions of streets [1] which picked up steam in the press [2]. And now, we're live with our own site! Happy to answers questions, and other folks from the project might chime in as well. [0]…
Transform Your City is a platform designed to advocate for urban pedestrian, cycling, and car-free street initiatives. Modeled after change.org, it enables communities to propose and support local transportation… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Transform Your City launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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UrbanCyclers▲83App and social platform for boosting cycling in cities
2017 · cyclers.app · its alternatives →
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An urban transformation is underway
2016 · amazon.com · 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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Transplant.to▲202An interactive website showing where people are moving & why
2020 · its alternatives →
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Patio▲528Hey HN! I built Patio to make DIY more accessible and sustainable. It’s a community-powered platform where you can: Rent tools from people nearby Learn DIY through curated tutorials and guides Find or list surplus materials to save money and reduce waste Browse home improvement news in one place It’s early, but live — would love your feedback on the experience, especially around search, learning, and marketplace usability. Thanks! — Julien
2025 · patio.so · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We're a small team in Kyoto building a website called dédédé (https://dedede.de/en) that invites people to share the various positives, negatives, oddities, etc. they find in urban spaces. The project grew out of an earlier effort where we'd built an app that assisted participatory urbanism workshops run by local nonprofits. With the new platform, we're trying to build something similar but more casual and hopefully with broader appeal, that'll be fun to use even outside of formal workshop situations. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
2025 · dedede.de · its alternatives →
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Citizens 🤝 AI towards more livable places
2023 · smoothri.de · its alternatives →
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I love urban planning and think the way we interact with the built environment is hugely impactful to individuals. But I also think that most people have been trained to take the built environment as a given rather than something that they have partial ownership of. By building a place to discuss their community on a hyper-local scale, I’m hoping to encourage residents to feel like they are an important piece of their city. I thought building a sort of spatial forum, where city residents can discuss the little annoyances in their neighborhoods, might help people a) start thinking about which…
2024 · littlefixes.xyz · its alternatives →
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GitCity▲113GitCity transforms your GitHub contribution history into an interactive isometric 3D city skyline. Every commit builds a skyscraper. Free, open-source, embeddable in any README.
Apr 2026 · gitcity.natrajx.in · its alternatives →
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The Todo App for Procrastinators ;)
2011 · tomorrow.do · its alternatives →
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Urbanpinion▲96Citizens engagement platform to develop your city together
2021 · app.urbanpinion.com · its alternatives →
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Roads? Where we're going ... we need better roads!
2016 · its alternatives →
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Track innovation shaping the future of cities.
2020 · cities.envisioning.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · victorribeiro.com · its alternatives →
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UrbanX▲12Convert Any Bike to an Electric Bike in 60 Seconds
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Fund your project with a 3D city of sponsors
Jun 2026 · thecitymesh.com · its alternatives →
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