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Felt Blog
Company blog · felt.com/blog · on HN as cancandataprogramming
Felt Blog is the company blog at felt.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2021, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 215 times, most often “Felt”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (28) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly link Felt, a collaborative web mapping product, and its maps. A few link Felt blog posts on Tippecanoe tile tooling and SVG-to-canvas rendering.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 28 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Put your sites, assets, and field operations on one live map. Connect your data, ask Felt AI in plain language, and run full GIS analysis in the browser.
Most-linked posts?
- Felt6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-07-05
- A New Home for Tippecanoe5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-09-14
- Felt: A Better Way to Work with Maps3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-04-01
- Felt’s Public Beta, and a New $15M Round of Funding3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-31
- How Felt moved from SVG to Canvas: Part 23 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-24
- Building the Figma for Maps3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-02
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-03
- Multiplayer Prototyping: If your tools aren’t fun, you’re not doing it right2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-01
- From SVG to Canvas – How to Make Maps Faster2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-16
- Put Your Data to Work on a Map2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-13
What Hacker News says?
For an upcoming trip to NYC, I was trying to map some NYC walks and highlights using Google Maps, but I stumbled into a lot of limitations (limit on number of layers, limits of number of legs of an itinerary, ect.). I was able to import all my existing NYC geo-points into Felt and quickly chart some itineraries from different sources. Way, way faster than Google Map. Let's see how fast it will render once I'm on the…
Comment linking /map/New-York-2022-u7J1aE2ZSLOmdwCP4WGCOA
on “Felt”Submitted Felt as a story · 1382 points
HN discussionhttps://felt.com/map/Appalachian-Trail-Thru-Hike-9BZ2GWGGKQ1... I just loaded this big map on a pixel 4a and while it was laggy, it still responded and didn't crash
Comment linking /map/Appalachian-Trail-Thru-Hike-9BZ2GWGGKQ1G9Cd1jxjy9AtSB
on “Felt”Submitted Multiplayer Prototyping: If your tools aren’t fun, you’re not doing it right as a story · 29 points
HN discussionironically, performance is terrible with most of their demos, and I'm using chrome on a decently powerful desktop. https://felt.com/map/San-Diego-Zoo-Virtual-Tour-LC3QHLPxR4yw...
Comment linking /map/San-Diego-Zoo-Virtual-Tour-LC3QHLPxR4ywZsX6opbW0A
on “Felt”Submitted How to design a beautiful map as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI found a "© Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap contributors" in the bottom left when I clicked on an example ( https://felt.com/map/Community-Solar-Draft-Proposal-U8dl9A6Z... )
Comment linking /map/Community-Solar-Draft-Proposal-U8dl9A6ZiShubyGIIlRfe4C
on “Felt”Submitted A better way to work with maps as a story · 10 points
HN discussionFelt | Product Marketing Manager (and Sales Engineers) | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com Felt is the best way to make maps and work with geospatial data on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. We are taking on an industry that's been stagnant for more than 30 years, but is essential to the workings of…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Lightning: Real-time editing for tiled map data as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI work on geospatial apps and the software I think I am most excited about is https://felt.com/ . I want to see them expand their tooling such that maps and data source authentication/authorization was controllable by the developer, to enable tenant isolation with proprietary data access. They could really disrupt how geospatial tech gets integrated into consumer apps. This article doesn't acknowledge how niche this…
Comment linking /
on “DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade”Submitted Tools for Fast (and Less Furious) Front End Development as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFelt | Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Growth Product Manager | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US only) | Full Time | https://felt.com Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used onl…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted A New Home for Tippecanoe as a story · 6 points
HN discussionOr here: https://felt.com/explore/us-electric-power-transmission-line... (Account signup required.)
Comment linking /explore/us-electric-power-transmission-lines-new-jersey
on “Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'”Submitted Team-based map making with Felt as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFelt | Web App / Elixir Engineer and Social Media/Community Rep. | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com Felt is the leading cloud-native GIS solution. It's surprisingly hard work with geospatial tools day today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is he…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)”Submitted Deploying more, stressing less: how Felt achieves 15 daily releases as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFelt | Web App / Elixir Engineer | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)”Submitted Easily Bring Data to Felt with the QGIS Plugin and the API as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFelt | Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers, Designers | ONSITE, Oakland Ca | Full-Time Hi. Felt is a software company based in sunny Oakland, CA. We are building an interactive web-based tool in a new and under-explored medium. It is founded by Sam Hashemi, the former CEO and co-founder of Remix (YC W15, recently acquired [1] for $100mm) and me, Can Duruk. We are looking for ambitious folks to join as early engine…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted Taking Hashrocket's “Ultimate Elixir CI” to the Next Level as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFelt | Engineering Manager, App and Data | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first…
Comment linking /blog/public-beta-15m-series-a
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)”Submitted Hot Reloading with Phoenix and Webpack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTake a look at Tippecanoe, which is under active development again[0]. The original developer, Erica Fischer (who is wonderful to work with), has a fork[1] where new work is happening. [0] https://felt.com/blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt [1] https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe
Comment linking /blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt
on “OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022”Submitted Visualizing Weather Data Using the Felt API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFelt | Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers, Designers | Oakland or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full-Time Hi. Felt is a software company based in sunny Oakland, CA. We are building an interactive web-based tool in a new and under-explored medium. It is founded by Sam Hashemi, the former CEO and co-founder of Remix (YC W15, recently acquired [1] for $100mm) and me, Can Duruk. We are looking for ambitious folks to join a…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted From SVG to Canvas – How to Make Maps Faster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFelt | Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Growth Product Manager | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US only) | Full Time | https://felt.com Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used onl…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”Submitted Rate Limiting in Phoenix and Elixir as a story · 3 points
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