Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5 November 2026 (the email-only subscribe card ended)

MakerMap (makermap.lol) puts makers who introduced themselves on X on one map, shows what they build, and suggests who they should meet. This policy explains what information we hold about you, where it comes from, what we do with it, and how to have it changed or removed.

1. Who we are

MakerMap is run by Pyrean B.V., registered in the Netherlands (KvK 66494834), Keizersgracht 391-A, 1016 EJ Amsterdam. Pyrean B.V. is the controller of your personal data for the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Contact: makermap@pyrean.com, or a direct message to @verbove on X.

2. What we collect

From public posts and profiles on X

If you posted an introduction on X (for example as part of the "I'm 29, solo founder…" intro trend), we may have collected, through a third-party data provider:

• your handle, display name and profile picture;
• your intro post: its text, date and public numbers (replies, likes, reposts, views);
• your public X profile: bio, location field, website field, pinned post and follower count;
• who replied to or interacted with your intro publicly, which we use to show makers you have already met;
• products and websites linked from your bio or pinned post, and the public title, description and icon of those web pages.

When you claim your profile or sign up

• Log in with X. X tells us your X account ID, handle, name and profile picture. We ask X only for permission to read your profile and posts (users.read, tweet.read). We never receive your password and we don't store your X access tokens.
• Log in with an email code. You can also log in, or start signing up, with your email address: we email you a 6-digit code that works for 10 minutes. We keep a fingerprint of the code (never the code itself), how many wrong tries were made and when codes were sent, so nobody can guess one, plus a private note of which page your confirmed address logs in to. A new account still connects its X account once, which shows which page on the map is yours.
• Your claim post. The public post you make to claim your profile, and a one-time code in its link that ties the post to your sign-up.
• What you tell us. Where you're based, how you work, your interests and skills, who you want to meet, links to your other social profiles, your products, and, only if you choose, your monthly revenue (shown publicly as "stated by the maker").
• Your email, which you give when you sign up and confirm with the code we email you (or, if X shares your X account's confirmed email with us, that address). We use it to log you in and to tell you when makers join near you and when something new happens. You can change it, or stop the emails, any time on your profile page.
• An intro you paste in, if you import an intro post that we missed.
• Your age, which you type at sign-up. We keep it only to show that you are 18 or over.

When you buy a paid pin or a sponsor boat

• Payment. Stripe handles the payment. We never see or store your card. Stripe tells us your email, that you paid, and IDs we need to manage your subscription and refunds.
• Your boat. The website you enter, the name and line you type, the colour, and the icon we fetch from that website. For a profile boat: your handle, name, city and a copy of your X profile picture. We also note when you agreed to the terms.
• Checks. To keep boats safe, we look up how old the website's domain is and may check it with Google Safe Browsing.
• Emails about your boat, such as your private boat link, that it's live, or that you've been outbid. These are part of the service, not marketing.

To keep your profile and points current (verified makers)

• Once a day we read your public X profile to follow your location field (so your pin moves when you do), to note your follower count, and to see whether your bio links to MakerMap.
• We look for your public posts that link to makermap.lol, and read their public numbers, to count your points.
• If you add our badge to a website, we fetch that website's page once a day to check the badge is there. When the badge image loads on a site, we note that site's domain (not who is visiting it).
• If someone lands on your profile link and then claims their own profile, we note that you referred them.

When you visit the site

• Analytics. We use DataFast to count visits, see where visitors come from and which features get used. DataFast uses a cookie to recognise returning visitors. We send it events such as "opened a profile" or "started a claim", sometimes with a handle, never your email.
• Session recordings. We use PostHog (EU servers) to record how pages are used: clicks, scrolling and page changes, so we can find and fix what breaks. Anything you type into a form is masked and never recorded.
• Server logs. Our hosting provider keeps standard request logs (such as IP address, browser and time) to run and secure the site.

3. How we use it, and why we're allowed to

4. Automated processing

We use Jev, a classifier by TypeSafe that we access through OpenRouter, to read public intros and profiles. It answers set questions, such as how someone mainly works, what space they're in, who they say they want to meet, whether their location is a real place, and whether they say they are under 18. It also scores how well two makers fit, to order match suggestions. These suggestions only decide what we show on the map; they have no legal or similarly significant effect on you. If something we say about you is wrong, you can correct it on your profile page, or ask us to. When you reply to one of our emails, Jev and Claude (by Anthropic, also through OpenRouter) read the reply to sort it: which ideas and problems it mentions, and what you'd like from MakerMap. A person decides what goes on the public ideas board, and it only shows your name if you didn't ask us not to.

5. What is public

Your profile on MakerMap is public: your name, handle, picture, city or country pin, intro, products, points, rank, the makers you've met, and your suggested matches. Your email is never public. We show locations at city level at most, never an address. How often your profile, products and boats were opened (the click counts) is public too, as numbers.

6. Who we share it with

We don't sell your data and we don't share it with advertisers. We use these service providers to run MakerMap:

• Vercel: hosting, databases and file storage.
• DataFast: website analytics.
• PostHog (EU): session recordings, and counts of which connector features are used.
• OpenRouter, TypeSafe (Jev) and Anthropic (Claude): automated reading of public intros and profiles, and sorting replies to our emails.
• TikHub: a data provider we use to read public X posts and profiles.
• X: for "Log in with X", and when you choose to post on X from MakerMap.
• Stripe: payments for paid pins and sponsor boats.
• Resend: sending our emails.
• OpenFreeMap serves the map tiles and Cloudflare's cdnjs serves the map library: both receive your IP address and browser details when the map loads.

Some of these providers are located outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Where that happens, the transfer relies on safeguards such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it.

7. How long we keep it

• Your profile stays on the map until you ask us to remove it, or until we stop running MakerMap.
• A post found during sign-up but not yet claimed is kept for 7 days.
• Login sessions last 30 days.
• Payment and boat records are kept as long as tax and accounting law requires (in the Netherlands, 7 years).
• When we remove your profile, we delete it from the map, our match and profile data, and our stored copies of your X profile. Backups are overwritten in the normal course.

8. Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask us to:

• show you the data we hold about you (access) and give you a copy (portability);
• correct it;
• delete it, including removing your profile from the map;
• stop or limit using it, including objecting to being on the map at all.

Email makermap@pyrean.com or DM @verbove. We'll answer within one month. You can also complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or the authority where you live.

9. Cookies and local storage

Two more cookies exist only for staff (mm_viewas) and for our own tests (mm_e2e).

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The site still works without the analytics cookies; without the login cookies you can't log in.

10. Children

MakerMap is for makers aged 18 and over. We don't knowingly show anyone under 18: intros that say or clearly imply the maker is under 18 are left off the map, and you can't claim a profile if you're under 18. If you think someone under 18 is on the map, tell us and we'll remove them.

11. Security

We keep data with established hosting providers, use HTTPS everywhere, sign login sessions, and limit who can access stored data. No system is perfectly secure, so we keep only what we need.

12. MakerMap in Claude, ChatGPT and other AI apps

You can connect MakerMap to an AI app that supports MCP connectors, such as Claude or ChatGPT, at www.makermap.lol/mcp. You log in on makermap.lol, with X or an email code, and choose Allow. The app can then ask MakerMap for makers, meetups, products, questions and answers, and what's new on the map; fill in a meetup, a change to a meetup you host, a question, an answer, a review, a trip, a post or a change to your settings for you to check; and show it in MakerMap's own screens.

• What the app gets: what the map already shows anyone (names, handles, pictures, city pins, what people build, points, reviews, questions and answers), plus what it needs from your own account to answer you: your meetups and co-works (for one you host, who's coming and who asked to join; a co-work's invite link, which only its host and the people in it get), your trips, who you follow, your points and how many clicks your page and products got, your settings (your city, profile, products, socials, your intro post and which emails you get), the apps connected to your account, and, when you ask to pick a new intro post, your recent posts on X. Never your email address or anyone else's.
• What we get: the requests the app makes (for example "makers near Lisbon"), not your conversation with it. We count which features are used, by handle, in PostHog.
• What it can change: a meetup or co-work, a change to one you host, your answer to one or a day or place you suggest for it, a question, an answer, a vote, a review or a report on one, a follow, a trip, a new intro post, disconnecting an app, or a change to your settings is only made when you tap its button in MakerMap's screen. In an app that doesn't show MakerMap's screens, the app gives you a link instead: it opens makermap.lol with the change filled in, and it's made only when you tap the button there. Each link works once, for one day, and only for your account. Nothing is ever posted on X for you: every post opens X, and you send it yourself.
• How long: the app's access lasts an hour at a time and renews for up to 90 days. Disconnect it any time in Settings → Connected apps; it stops working within about a minute.

What the AI app itself does with what it receives is covered by that app's own privacy policy.

13. Rating cards on makers' own sites

A maker on MakerMap can put our rating card on their own product's website. It asks that site's visitors how the product is going: 1 to 5 stars and, if they like, a few words.

• What we receive: the stars, the note if you write one, the address of the page you were on, and your browser and screen size. No name, no email address and no cookie. MakerMap (Pyrean B.V.) stores it.
• Who sees it: only that product's maker, on MakerMap. Ratings from makers' sites are never shown publicly.
• On that site: the card loads one script from makermap.lol and keeps a small note in your browser's local storage there (when you answered or closed it), so it doesn't ask again. Once a day it tells us the card is on that site, without anything about you.
• Why we're allowed: our legitimate interest, and the maker's, in hearing how a product works for the people who use it. You choose whether to answer.
• How long: as long as the product is on MakerMap. Ask us and we delete a rating; the page and time it was sent help us find it.

14. Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top and say so on the site. The latest version always lives at makermap.lol/privacy.