I built Fooglemap to map everyday cheap meals, not tourist lists
I am building Fooglemap, a map for affordable local meals with real menu-price examples.
The useful lesson this week was to stop pitching it as a global restaurant map and focus on places where the data is already concrete. In the current public feed, Southeast Asia has 46 entries: Thailand 22, Singapore 11, Malaysia 9, the Philippines 2, and Indonesia 2.
The entries that feel useful are specific: THB 60 pork basil rice, SGD 3 pork congee, MYR 3 budget meals, IDR 5,000 noodles. That is more useful than another generic best restaurants list.
I am now thinking city-first: highlight strong city pages, clearly label thin regions, and ask locals for one everyday cheap meal they would add.
For local discovery products, would you show the whole map first or lead with the strongest city pages and make the coverage gaps explicit?
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