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24 alternatives to Written in Rust – Self hosted and fast GeoIP service with auto updates

A simple performant GeoIP server written in Rust using MaxMind DBs with auto database update - alisinabh/atlas

Written in Rust is a self-hosted GeoIP service designed for developers who need fast IP geolocation lookups. Built with Rust for performance, it automatically updates its geolocation data without manual intervention.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Written in Rust – Self hosted and fast GeoIP service with auto updates launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey all, wanted to share my recent weekend hack project. I wanted to improve upon the existing space for looking up information about IP addresses and ASNs. The backend is written in Rust and pulls BGP data every 8 hours from the RIPE RIS project to build up a routing table and also adds geolocation information. The frontend is using React and Tailwind. Would love any feedback or suggestions on what to improve.

    2023 · ip.guide · its alternatives →

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    I built LocalGPT over 4 nights as a Rust reimagining of the OpenClaw assistant pattern (markdown-based persistent memory, autonomous heartbeat tasks, skills system). It compiles to a single ~27MB binary — no Node.js, Docker, or Python required. Key features: - Persistent memory via markdown files (MEMORY, HEARTBEAT, SOUL markdown files) — compatible with OpenClaw's format - Full-text search (SQLite FTS5) + semantic search (local embeddings, no API key needed) - Autonomous heartbeat runner that checks tasks on a configurable interval - CLI + web interface + desktop GUI - Multi-provider:…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your GeoAI to combine in-house with public map-based data

    2024 · datamonkey.tech · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, After 9 years of running my own OpenStreetMap tile server infra for MapHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389989), I've open-sourced it and launched OpenFreeMap. You can either self-host or use our public instance. Everything is open-source, including the full production setup — there’s no 'open-core' model here. Check out the repo (https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap). The map data comes from OpenStreetMap. I also provide weekly full planet downloads both in Btrfs and MBTiles formats. I aim to cover the running costs of the public…

    2024 · openfreemap.org · 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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    Over the past week I built a project to let people self-host an entire maps stack so they don't have to send data to the big G. Right now it includes a base map, geocoder and directions server. Currently only bicycle directions are supported, and I'm only hosting tiles for Seattle because I'm unemployed and can't afford to host data for the whole planet. Check it out! https://maps.ellenhp.me/ https://github.com/ellenhp/headway Ultimately I'd like to really focus on transit routing (not implemented) but I'll probably throw a driving mode in there too.

    2022 · maps.ellenhp.me · its alternatives →

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    What works now: user signups, org creations, private/public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don't have many features quite yet (issues, PRs, CI). What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust and 2) the website is a little odd. Its design is inspired by CLIs (e.g., fzf, broot, vim) instead of web apps, and as such, lacks some affordances that you might typically expect in favor of keyboard-driven instant navigations (we have the very ambitious goal of an FCP of…

    Jun 2026 · gitdot.io · its alternatives →

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    I built a DNS resolver that lets me use https://frontend.numa instead of localhost:5173 — auto-generated TLS certs, WebSocket passthrough, path routing. No mkcert, no nginx, no /etc/hosts.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I am happy to announce Stalwart JMAP [1], an open-source JSON Meta Application Protocol server that aims to be scalable, robust and secure. Some of its key features are: - JMAP Core, JMAP Mail and JMAP over WebSocket full compliance. - IMAP4 rev2/1 support via Stalwart IMAP, an imap-to-jmap proxy [2]. - Scalable and fault tolerant: consensus over Raft, node autodiscovery over gossip and read-only replicas. - RocksDB backend with full-text search support in 17 languages. - OAuth 2.0 authorization code and device authorization flows. - Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) message signing. -…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    run "stakpak --profile readonly", then ask it to list, then nuke some AWS resource https://stakpak.gitbook.io/docs/how-it-works/warden-guardrai...

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    simple mbtiles server. Contribute to markuman/sms development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm a software engineer who keeps getting pulled into DevOps no matter how hard I try to escape it. I recently moved into a Lead DevOps Engineer role writing tooling to automate a lot of the pain away. On my own time outside of work, I built Artifact Keeper — a self-hosted artifact registry that supports 45+ package formats. Security scanning, SSO, replication, WASM plugins — it's all in the MIT-licensed release. No enterprise tier. No feature gates. No surprise invoices. Your package managers — pip, npm, docker, cargo, helm, go, all of them — talk directly to it using their native…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time Geospatial and Geofencing. Contribute to tidwall/tile38 development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey! I'm a solo developer having fun learning Go. I have a side hustle and wanted to implement currency localization. I could use existing IP databases, but hosting on serverless is slow. So I built my own. I was surprised how fun it can be to use Go, and it's fast. Thankfully, Go's speed makes up for my dodgy code. Anyway, I'd love to get some feedback on my website/API. After a few weeks of testing and losing money on ads, I'm confident it's very reliable. This isn't a promo. It's basicly free (30k lookups/month), so there's no need to pay. Any advice or tips on how to grow and…

    2024 · ipflare.io · its alternatives →

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    Hello! I got quite some feedback on a web server I'm building, so I'm rewriting the server to be faster and easier to use. I (and maybe some other contributors?) have optimized the web server performance, especially for static file serving and reverse proxying (the last use case I optimized for very recently). I also picked a different configuration format and specification, what I believe is easier to write. Automatic TLS is also enabled by default out of the box, you don't need to even enable it manually, like it was in the original server I was building. Yesterday, I released the first…

    2025 · ferron.sh · its alternatives →

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    Free, Fast and Reliable IP Geolocation, Countries, Timezones and Phone codes API for commercial and non-commercial usage, Available in JSON and XML formats.

    2023 · freeipapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time geolocation and privacy detection API for developers and enterprises. Free up to 1,000 requests per day. Detect user location, proxy and VPN usage, and more. Trusted by 100k businesses worldwide. More than 15 billion requests served every month.

    2017 · iplocate.io · its alternatives →

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    Free and easy geoip API thanks to Cloudflare and Heroku. - jlxw/geoip

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free downloadable IP to Country & IP to ASN databases

    2025 · iplocate.io · its alternatives →

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    An ultra-fast, single-binary MCP server written in Rust as a lightweight alternative to Node.js/Python. - StamManif/mcp-stama

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    QoreDB▲95

    The fast, open-source database client built with Rust

    Mar 2026 · qoredb.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m building Corviont, a self-hosted offline maps appliance (tiles + routing + search) for edge/on-prem devices. Hosted demo (no install): https://demo.corviont.com/ Self-host (Docker Compose repo): https://github.com/corviont/monaco-demo Docs: https://www.corviont.com/docs What’s inside: - Vector tiles served locally (PMTiles) - Routing served locally (Valhalla) - Offline geocoding/search + reverse (SQLite Nominatim-based index) - MapLibre UI wired to the local endpoints After the initial image + data pulls, it runs fully…

    Jan 2026 · corviont.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Emilie, I have a literature background (which explains the well-written documentation!) and I've been learning Rust and distributed systems by building minikv over the past few months. It recently got featured in Programmez! magazine: https://www.programmez.com/actualites/minikv-un-key-value-st... minikv is an open-source, distributed storage engine built for learning, experimentation, and self-hosted setups. It combines a strongly-consistent key-value database (Raft), S3-compatible object storage, and basic multi-tenancy. Features/highlights: - Raft…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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