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

Amazing Product that I just started to work with! Keep up the Great work!
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Hello everyone! We're very proud to have Mapme on Product Hunt! We invested a lot of time to deliver the best product out there for creating maps without any coding. In 3 simple steps you can have your map ready to go. We offer a lot of powerful, optional features like crowdsourcing, importing / exporting your data, reviews... Will be happy to answer your questions and get your feedback at ahmad@mapme.com

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.

Mapme is an awesome product that has helped my startup to grow through the ability to visualize my services for the target audience. What started out as a side project turned into something viable because of the ease of use and product features of the maps. Highly recommend using this product! Check out what we did with the map! http://www.discoveringcoffee.com/

Hello, Is it possible to map out routes and leave commentary (such as date/time) for the specific route? This will be ideal for people to arrange carpools (for school/work/rec./etc..)! Ideally people could arrange pick-up and drop-off locations for their carpooling buddies! I hope this was beneficial for you to read.. Best regards to your success! Thanks, Jaswinder Brar

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..

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

I have been using MapMe since last April and i'm truly a massive fan. Not only of the great team that is there to help whenever i have a question or suggestion (which they're also open to) but the product has helped me to make my product turn into a real startup. Without the visualization of our Coffee community that the map bring, i don't think i could have made it what is it. It's simple to use, visually appealing and has so many functions that anyone can use it and it will come out with a different effect. We are using MapMe to make Discovering Coffee the yelp or tripadvisor of Coffee as well as building the community of coffee lovers so it's really been a dream product to use. Thanks to Ben and the amazing team who are all so welcoming to us! Anyone who wants to map out any sort of community or trip maybe should use this product over any others.

Mapme was created by one of the most promising entrepreneurs in Israel and it's a product anyone can use! From my professional point of view, Mapme is going to be one of the more creative content marketing tools a marketer can utilize in 2016.

I'm proud to be part of Mapme team recently and see how nicely it's growing in a short time. It's been a great experience and I'm very happy to be promoting it in Latin America and helping to support and grow the Spanish and Portuguese speaking users. it's specially amazing to see how wide can be the usage of Mapme as every day we find people applying it in different projects all over the world! In Brazil we started mapping the startup ecosystem in Porto Alegre (south of the country) as you can see here in partnership with the local city hall and now we have hundreds of maps from Brazil and the other South American countries. We also created a nice map of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this year, that looks very nice as a story, just to mention some nice examples. I'm also happy to help and talk to anyone about Mapme, specially the ones who prefer to do it in Portuguese or Spanish! Anyone who's interested in helping to translate Mapme to any language can reach me as well :)

Awesome product I actually used to build a product that was featured here a few months ago. Great job! Quick question - what are the next features you have in mind for this platform?

Great product. Is there a pricing associated with it ?

This is awesome! I am sure there are a million better uses for this product than the one that came to mind when I was testing it - mapping good lunch spots for our team in Berkeley - but it made me wonder if it is possible to invite collaborators to your map so that they can add in their pins, which in this case, would be their favorite places for lunch. Thanks!

Great idea and great product. I recomend it

Too much traffic for the day? Getting a DB Connection error repeatedly. Did see the dashboard once.

Great work Ben, Good luck!

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!

Such a cool app--thanks Ben and co.

Wow. This is a cool product - Great work.