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Geocodio
Company blog · geocod.io/code-and-coordinates · on HN as thecodemonkeyprogrammingdata
Geocodio is the company blog at geocod.io, writing about programming and data. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention Geocodio as a geocoding API with a free tier, batch processing and enrichment options such as congressional and school districts. Its blog covers free-tier abuse and pricing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Geocoding and data enrichment for North America that just works
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding3 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2014-01-21
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-09
- Geocodio | Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-21
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-20
- Chief: Delightfully Simple Agentic Loops2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-19
- Is Your Team Still Hand-Chiseling Code?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-21
- Geocodio keeps 300M addresses up to date2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
What Hacker News says?
The SSBA (Small Software Business Alliance) was set up by Michele Hansen -- co-founder of Geocodio, http://geocod.io (and the SSBA is now run by another person) for this reason -- to raise awareness in Washington DC of the issue with the Section 174 Capitalization changes and the efforts to repeal it. https://ssballiance.org/ She has also spoken about it on podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oF-xs…
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on “Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)”Submitted A $1k AWS mistake as a story · 339 points
HN discussionI just wanted to add that geocod.io is now a viable alternative to Google Maps for geocoding in terms of both accuracy and pricing. We’re going to continue having a no-credit-card-required 2,500/day free limit, as well as the most affordable pricing, without restrictions. Including a plan that allows for unlimited geocoding. https://geocod.io/pricing Full disclaimer: I’m one of the Geocodio founders.
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on “Farewell, Google Maps”Submitted Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding as a story · 224 points
HN discussionYes! Thank you! We're using the d3 CSV parser for our CSV upload functionality [1] but are having a ton of issues with performance and cross-browser support. Can't wait to try this out. [1] http://geocod.io
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on “Show HN: Papa Parse 3”Submitted Scaling request logging with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector as a story · 136 points
HN discussionI just wanted to add that geocod.io is now a viable alternative to Google Maps for geocoding in terms of both accuracy and pricing. We’re going to continue having a no-credit-card-required 2,500/day free limit, as well as the most affordable pricing, without restrictions. Including a plan that allows for unlimited geocoding. https://geocod.io/pricing Full disclaimer: I’m one of the Geocodio founders.
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on “Google Maps Platform”Submitted Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse as a story · 106 points
HN discussionJust wanted to add another geocoding provider to the list https://geocod.io - founded about 4 years ago based on frustrations with Google’s terms and pricing.
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on “How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance”Submitted The Year of Internal Tools as a story · 68 points
HN discussionGreat question! There are a couple reasons people use Geocodio over or in addition to the major providers, like Google: * Google's free tier is 2,500 a day. But if you need more than that, you have to sign a yearly contract ($10,000+). Our pricing is 2,500 free a day with additional lookups at $.001 each. * We don't place any restrictions on our geocodes. The major providers often a lot of restrictions on how you us…
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on “What was your best passive income in 2014?”Submitted Building a Jeopardy Game for Laravel Live Denmark as a story · 10 points
HN discussionGeocodio ( http://geocod.io ) is adding 5-10 new users a day and monthly revenue has gone from <$100 to >$1,000 in just over six months. It's a self-serve product (geocoding US addresses via API or CSV upload), though there is a fair amount of support and continuing development. I've posted this before, but I wrote up some thoughts about things I've learned about launching a side project here that you might find hel…
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on “What was your best passive income in 2014?”Submitted Geocodio now supports reverse geocoding as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe've put together an (objective) comparison tool here: https://www.geocod.io/compare/
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on “Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs”Submitted Timezones, congressional, state leg, and school districts with geocoding lookups as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe offer this at http://geocod.io :)
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on “Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?”Submitted The kernel patch that almost broke our fleet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks for the feedback, it's really valuable! The idea behind Geocodio is definitely to prevent you from needing to go through the hassle of building a dataset yourself and hosting it, it is indeed a very time consuming process. Note that mapquest still has a 5k/requests per day limit [1] making this a viable alternative. As mentioned in our FAQ [2] we do indeed provide special pricing and capacity for high-volume…
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on “Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding”Submitted Delightfully Boring, Carefully Crafted: The Story Behind Geocodio's Redesign as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCongrats on the product! Just a couple website level things: - http://geocod.io/contact/ says DC but shows me a map centered somewhere south of Topeka. - Random $0.02 suggestion: stop using "ridiculous".
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on “Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding”Submitted Geocodio keeps 300M addresses up to date as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGeocodio [1] is another really good service to look into too: * Good free and premium paid service * They've gone a bit above and beyond to provide examples/demos in all languages in their docs. Super easy for users * Can process bulk/batch request super fast in parallel on your behalf * Have a super cool front-end CSV upload tool built in React so non-programmers can geocode data in seconds * Forward/reverse geocod…
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on “LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service”Submitted Geocodio Processes 2B Requests per Month as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is super cool! Shameless plug. If you're looking for street-level reverse (or forward) geocoding, we offer[1] a super affordable API and CSV upload tool. [1] http://geocod.io
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on “A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python”Submitted Compare Geocoding Providers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in a service with a free tier and more specific granularity than the MaxMind free database, Geocodio has a pretty nice service. They also have a bunch of different enrichment options that you can tack on if you need things like congressional districts or school districts. It's a really nice service. https://www.geocod.io/ (not affiliated, just a fan)
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on “Show HN: Tiny, fast, and free API to geolocate IP addresses”Submitted Geocodio | Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've found Geocodio to be a good option too, especially if you need to do batch processing: https://www.geocod.io/
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on “Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use”Submitted Chief: Delightfully Simple Agentic Loops as a story · 1 points
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