Mapname – anonymous social network for organising points of interest
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…
Mapname – anonymous social network for organising points of interest launched on May 20, 2023 with 52 votes, #1,496 of 4,910 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Mapname is a free, ad-free social network for tagging and organizing points of interest with custom names using a prefix-ID-suffix format. Users create a unique prefix during signup, then name locations and group them into collections, such as favorite coffee shops or cities visited. The platform functions anonymously, connecting users around shared interests in places rather than personal identities, and allows discovery and discussion of these named locations with like-minded users.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Your name is an address. Send anything to it, keep what matters, show what you choose, and when enough gathers, it writes back.
Send anything to it, from your phone, from the web, from anyone you let in. Keep what matters. Show what you choose. Your name becomes two things at once: [email protected] and map.name/yourhandle . Private by default, free, nofrom map.name
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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