I'm OCR-ing 200K+ historical maps (or at least trying). For example: https://www.threads.com/@that.map.guy.craig/post/DXA59AylJng...
This has only really become possible within the last 3 months and I'm still shocked at how good some of the new models are at tasks like this.
I'm not a crazy person, promise. I run https://pastmaps.com as a solo bootstrapped founder and this data is so valuable to my customers. It's been a dream of mine to do this as part of my map digitization pipeline and I'm so excited for the product experiences this is going to unlock.
So much to build, so little time
"So much to build, so little time" - this is exactly the solo founder condition.
The interesting thing about a niche like historical maps is that it's a content marketer's dream - deeply passionate audience, specific vocabulary, loads of long-tail search. But it's also easy to let distribution fall off when the product is this technically interesting to work on.
I'm building ad-vertly.ai for this exact problem - AI agents that handle your growth so you can stay heads-down building. Curious: are you doing any intentional distribution work for pastmaps.com currently, or mostly relying on word of mouth / organic discovery?
I love maps so much. This is so cool