How I Built an AI-Powered B2B Supplier Matching Platform (MapleBridge.io)
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Finding a reliable Chinese supplier as a North American buyer is painful. You browse Alibaba for hours, message dozens of factories, get ghosted by half, and discover the other half are actually trading companies pretending to be manufacturers. I built MapleBridge.io to solve this with AI matching instead of directory browsing. The Problem with Traditional B2B Platforms Alibaba, Global Sources, and Made-in-China are essentially directories. You search by keyword, scroll through page