No offence, but aren't you six years late on this?
This looks like one of the hundreds of startups launched in 2004 with the idea of "Put pins on a Google Map and save it in a database". Lots of those startups got funding for it, and they've all run their course.
Since the functionality you're planning to build is now actually built into Google Maps itself, what's your purpose with this thing?
From an implementation standpoint, I'd ditch the "name your map" and "log into google" steps. Start off with a randomly generated unique URL and let the user immediately start sticking pins into a map. If they decide to "save" at some point, you can hit them up for account details. That's the standard way of doing things like this these days.
I'm looking at it from the pov of small businesses - if you want to make a store locator, you can do it here in a few minutes.
Same thing for businesses who want to help customers get to their restaurants, bars, shops, etc.
I'm looking at allowing businesses to brand the map with their own colors and logo, so they can effectively have a branded locator without the development cost.
Congrats on launching something. Ignore the haters. I have to agree with iampims, people will give this 10 seconds before moving on, and it's just not clear what it is for. I would recommend fixing your tagline as a first priority so people know exactly what the service does. Goood luck!
This looks like one of the hundreds of startups launched in 2004 with the idea of "Put pins on a Google Map and save it in a database". Lots of those startups got funding for it, and they've all run their course.
Since the functionality you're planning to build is now actually built into Google Maps itself, what's your purpose with this thing?
From an implementation standpoint, I'd ditch the "name your map" and "log into google" steps. Start off with a randomly generated unique URL and let the user immediately start sticking pins into a map. If they decide to "save" at some point, you can hit them up for account details. That's the standard way of doing things like this these days.