I'm building a global map for discovering online stores

I’ve always found it surprisingly difficult to discover interesting online stores outside the ones I already know.

Search engines are great when you already know what you’re looking for, but discovering stores by country, category, and location is a different experience.

So I started building MAPMERCE — a global discovery map for online stores.

The idea is simple:

🌍 Discover online stores around the world

🗺️ Explore stores by country and location

🏷️ Browse stores by category

🔎 Discover stores you may not have found otherwise

🏪 Give store owners a place to showcase and manage their presence

MAPMERCE is now live, and I’m starting the journey of putting it in front of real users and store owners.

I’m sharing the journey publicly because I want to learn from other founders and builders.

I’d love your honest feedback:

Would you use a platform like this to discover online stores?

What would make a store discovery platform genuinely useful to you?