Hi everyone, happy to share what I’ve been working on for the past year. Mapme is a super simple publishing platform for map-based content. You can do all kinds of cool things with it, such as: crowdsource data, share stories, map your community, display locations or anything you want. We’ve seen organizations, publishers, governments and individuals do incredible things with the platform so far; from crowdsourcing accessible locations in Canada, to mapping health centers in Zambia, to contextualizing lists of the top veggie places in Berlin. Mapme started as a fun side project of mine while I was serving in the military. The original project was Mapped In Israel, a crowdsourced map of the Israeli tech ecosystem, which took off and became an awesome resource for the community. During my service I received hundreds of emails from people asking if I could help them create similar maps but of all kinds of different topics. Long story short, after I finished my army service, we built an awesome team around Jan '15, raised a round and started to grow our product. As a first time founder I’ve learned a lot along the way, primarily by making mistakes. Making our experience more transparent has been a really enjoyable part of the journey. We’ve made some our metrics public. Shared a list of everything I’ve learned in the past year. Published our fundraising deck. Built a unique team in an incredible country. And hopefully plenty more to come. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Always available by email, ben@mapme.com or Twitter

I was wondering when we'd see Mapme here :) Great product, I've been using MappedinIsrael as a resource from it's start (for finding companies, looking at job posts, or just getting to know our ecosystem); mapping really is a great way to visualize this sort of data. Looking forward to seeing how other companies will use it. Good luck, Ben & team!

Congrats @benln for a beautiful product, it definitely seems like there's a real need for this! What's next with Mapme? are you looking at making more sorts of content a part of the experience, on top of the maps? Excited to see Mapme growth and achievements, keep it up!

Just made my first map for an upcoming trip - will be great to populate with our plans, then our experiences.

Great product. Is there a pricing associated with it ?

Hi @benln - very great product I just created my own map! I would like to know if there is a directory of all the existing public map created by users? I am sure people already created amazing maps and I would like to look at these one and add mine in the list (as people can contribute to my maps too) thanks!

Looks amazing @benln, respect! Love the bait-and-hook pitch, too (Medium for Maps)

It was about time! Love the product. Best of luck guys!

Such a cool app--thanks Ben and co.

I remember a few years ago I was on the market looking for a job, MapMe was just taking its first steps back then, it helped me to get the job I wanted. Today I use it to find customers, it's such a powerhouse, congrats to Ben and team, great job!

Amazing product!

Hey Ben, Great work. I'm especially impressed with the minimal latency I experience while using the product. It's clear that the inherent value of this product is in the data created by your community. Can you share more about how you will scale the growth of new data added to the platform? Which customers are you targeting and how can the PH community help you accomplish this vision? Who are your most desired future customers?

I had discovered Mapme about 1 year ago in beta version, I am very glad now at it is public available. We have started to create a map of startups in Turkey. http://mappedinturkey.com Thank you so much again..

Love this, @benln, good luck!

Great work Ben, Good luck!

@benln @mapme Curious why you chose to go with Google Maps instead of Mapbox or some other mapping service?

Awesome product Ben!!

I love mapme, I've been using it to map out Jerusalem's tech community for the past few months - Mapme.com/JLM. At first it shocked everyone to find out how much action is happening around them that they weren't aware of, and gradually it became a reference and incredibly useful and valuable tool for our community including stakeholders and municipality officials - people refer to it every day to check locations of places, and find out what's around them. I think it's one product that has a chance to truly change what's possible for local communities if used in the right way. Mapme stories is a factory for good content. The Mapme team has been super helpful and responsive with support.

kinda wish i could peep the map before hitting signup wall, but very cool

Game changing product, built from a real need first solved brilliantly, gaining authentic traction then turned into a platform. A lesson for us all by the great Ben Lang.