Photon on new websites
Open-source geocoder for OpenStreetMap data, with a public demo API hosted by Komoot.
579 sites
548 found by StackScope, 31 via launch platforms
- StackScope Discovery (Indie) 338
- StackScope Wider Web 210
- Product Hunt 20
- Other 7
- Hacker News 3
- PeerPush 1
Photon appeared on about 180 new sites in the last 30 days.
These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
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183 new sites with Photon first seen in the last 30 days.
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See how alerts workShare of new sites using Photon
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026.
The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without Photon itself changing.
Coverage details
Before the dashed line where the dots begin, the line is a weekly average. After it, the last 90 days are shown one day at a time.
Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.
Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
What kind of sites use Photon
174 sites with a known type, all time
Domain endings using Photon
579 sites, all time
- .com 52.7%
- .app 14.9%
- .fr 3.6%
- .org 3.1%
- .ca 1.9%
- .net 1.7%
- .ai 1.6%
- .ch 1.6%
- .co 1.4%
- .io 1.4%
- .live 1.4%
- .xyz 1.4%
- .me 1.0%
- .in 0.9%
- .eu 0.7%
Country
Country known for 59 of 579 sites (10.2%), all time.
How we know
Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. We count a country only where it is stated plainly enough to be sure: a governing-law clause or company registration number on a legal page, a phone country code, or a country domain ending. Sites that publish none are not counted at all.
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France
28.8%
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United States
11.9%
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Canada
6.8%
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Switzerland
5.1%
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Australia
3.4%
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Germany
3.4%
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Egypt
3.4%
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Indonesia
3.4%
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Italy
3.4%
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Thailand
3.4%
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United Arab Emirates
1.7%
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Austria
1.7%
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Belgium
1.7%
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Brazil
1.7%
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Spain
1.7%
Green hosting
31 checked sites since Apr 2026.
What this means
The share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, against the average for every new site we checked.
- Photon 52%
- Average 47%
Maps leaders
| Tool | % of sitesall time | % of categoryall time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
Google Maps
|
4.2% | 82.9% |
| #2 | – |
Leaflet
|
0.4% | 7.5% |
| #3 | – |
OpenStreetMap
|
0.3% | 5.7% |
| #4 | – |
Mapbox
|
0.1% | 1.4% |
| #5 | ▼3 |
CARTO
|
<0.1% | 0.9% |
| … | ||||
| #14 | ▼3 |
Photon
Current page
|
<0.1% | 0.2% |
Percentages show all-time adoption across the new sites we track: the share of all of them, and of the sites using any Maps tool.Among September launches it ranked #16 in Maps, down from #13 in August. All 232 in Maps →
Often used with
| Tool | Sites | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
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OpenStreetMap
|
291 | 175x |
Vercel
|
201 | 2.6x |
Next.js
|
198 | 2.5x |
Tools that turn up far more often on Photon sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recent launches using Photon
369 of the 579 sites using Photon are product launches we list individually. The other 210 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts. How StackScope Discovery works
Buraq: rides that ascend
Also detected
DP Nearby · Explore
Also detected
Ciravo — Find your night
Also detected
sidestep — Know before you go
Also detected
Sun Path Map — 3D sun & shadows for any address | Sundial
Also detected
Famleo · One calm place for family life, in one home or two
Also detected
SafeOnTrack - Live incidenten in je buurt - Stay safe, keep moving
Also detected
El Niño Flood Watch
Also detected
Kargit - Planificateur de trajets électriques moins chers
Also detected
ONVAO — Votre entreprise, plus simple
Also detected
FindTastings - Réservez dégustations de vin, gin, whisky et bière en Europe
Also detected
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