About Makeke Maps

"Makeke" (mah-keh-keh) is Hawaiian for "market." Makeke Maps is a directory of the vendors at Hawaii's farmers markets — indexed by which market, on which date.

The problem

Yelp covers the market as a single business. Google Maps shows a pin in a parking lot. County websites publish a vendor list once and let it rot. Nobody tracks the thing shoppers actually want to know: which farms, food trucks, and bakers will be there this Saturday?

How we collect data

1. Vendors post weekly schedules to Instagram. We follow them.
2. An LLM pipeline pulls structured tuples — (vendor, market, date, products) — out of those captions.
3. A classifier rules out off-topic posts (online sales, personal news, etc.) so only actual market announcements end up on the site.
4. A human reviews everything before it goes from "rumored" to "confirmed."

Are you a vendor?

If we have your business listed and something's wrong, email hello@makekemaps.com with the correction and we'll update within 48 hours.

Want to claim your page and start submitting your own schedule? Get in touch and we'll set you up. Claimed pages mark all your future appearances as confirmed.

Run a market?

Check out our organizer page — we partner with market organizers to keep rosters fresh and route foot-traffic to your event.

Status

Makeke Maps is in preview. The vendor lists currently on the site are placeholders used to lay out the design while we onboard our first market (KCC Saturday).