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by Soupy 2mo ago
https://pastmaps.com This is my side project turned solo bootstrapped startup that I've been working on over the past 2.5 years. Pastmaps has been solely a US-focused platform since it's initial launch but I'm cur
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How one founder's bet on 'the old school web' is paying off(theverge.com)
9 points by Soupy 4mo ago|1 comments
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by Soupy 5mo ago
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
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Cmux: Tmux for Claude Code(github.com)
3 points by Soupy 7mo ago|1 comments
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by Soupy 7mo ago
I've decided to open source cmux - a small minimal set of shell commands geared towards Claude Code to help manage the worktree lifecycle, especially when building with 5-10 parallel agents across multiple features. I've been usin
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by Soupy 1y ago
Around 90% of the maps currently on the site are from the US government (USGS). The last 10% are from public institutions and libraries and this is the newest segment that I'm actively working on growing. My hope is to flip this ratio
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by Soupy 1y ago
Hey Brendan! I also would love to add Canadian maps, it's been a huge request from my users and something I've been wanting to focus on all year. A big challenge I have in bringing the service to new regions is just data access, b
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by Soupy 1y ago
whoa this is wickedly cool! and yes, georeferencing these old maps is the bane of my existence right now awesome project
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by Soupy 1y ago
"Google maps but for old maps": https://pastmaps.com This is a solo startup that I've been working on for 2 years now. It's a labor of love and I'm very lucky and thankful that it's big enough to su
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by Soupy 1y ago
Stoke | Bellevue, WA | ONSITE (hybrid) Stoke is a 5-month-old startup (founded in Feb 2025 by insuretech veterans with $4B+ in previous exits across 2 bootstrapped companies) building real-time Voice AI agents to make insurance purchases ea
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by Soupy 1y ago
I also run a small B2C company ( https://pastmaps.com ). Here's what worked for me: First 1000 users: daily manually done reddit posts. Very time-consuming and annoying, but it gets the job done. Just make sure the content dr
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by Soupy 2y ago
It's currently 60% premium subscriptions to unlock advanced features (LiDAR layers for example) and then 40% for more traditional physical map print sales. I didn't intend to get into the physical ecommerce world with this but cus
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by Soupy 2y ago
I also love David Rumsey's collection! Check out the rumsey map center at Stanford if you ever find yourself in the area, it's ridiculously cool Pastmaps was really born out of my desire for more advanced features, layers, and too
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by Soupy 2y ago
Soon! I currently only have coverage for the US but I am expanding globally in Q1 2025. Just not enough hours in the day
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by Soupy 2y ago
You hit the nail on the head - my primary use-case is genealogy research!
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by Soupy 2y ago
Thank you! It's actually a bit embarassing but my search uses the central lat,lng returned from Google's places API and then finds all intersecting maps. It's just not the right approach for a broad place based search. I&#x27
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by Soupy 2y ago
No but I love that shop! I actually introduced myself to the owner there and told him about how I also run an online map shop and he got immediately super duper weird. Lol. Cut-throat business I guess?
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by Soupy 2y ago
Vast majority are currently from the USGS, but this is going to wildly shift and diversify soon as I've been working to bring a wider variety of sources. The next wave is coming mainly from public library systems from all across the gl
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by Soupy 2y ago
I run https://pastmaps.com as a lil' solo bootstrapped labor of love. Think Google Maps, but for OLD maps. It has 185K+ fully georeferenced high-res maps covering all of America, as well as satellite, LiDAR, and 3D layers t
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by Soupy 2y ago
https://pastmaps.com I'm building Pastmaps - striving to eventually be the world's largest online collection of old maps, aerials, and photos all packaged into a public historical research platform that's as easy
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by Soupy 3y ago
I also have been building and offering my own UI on top of the USGS collection of maps (among others in the public domain) at https://pastmaps.com if anyone else finds the existing UIs frustrating like I do. This is a labor of l
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by Soupy 3y ago
Oh hey that's me! I sell maps on the internet - https://pastmaps.com After selling my last startup in 2022 and being very burned out I decided to lean deeper into my own hobby - metal detecting. This lead to me building out
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by Soupy 3y ago
Love it. The core point that I actually took away is driving home the fact that maps are not infallible and this goes against common sense for most people. I don't know if it truly led to WWI, but faulty maps have definitely caused end
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Ask HN: What percent of your users use social login vs. email in 2023?
3 points by Soupy 3y ago|3 comments
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by Soupy 3y ago
Very doable, these are called mosaics in the GIS world and it's actually not that crazy to do Really love this suggestion, I could see it making map exploration far easier since now you just need to explore by year instead of by map an
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by Soupy 3y ago
I love love love this direction. And yea, I have a basic email but I really think a super simple upload and maybe even dead-easy georeference tool for folks to contribute data is a no-brainer! I'm bumping this up on my backlog, thank y
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by Soupy 3y ago
Yea I used to use this site quite a bit but it is clunky as all hell. I found myself cobbling together my own tools or stitching 3-5 different resources together over time for my research and this eventually just led to me starting work on
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by Soupy 3y ago
Amazing, just bookmarked this!
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by Soupy 3y ago
I actually think that's a great idea! I considered doing it as part of my ingestion pipeline when starting out but honestly got a bit overwhelmed with all the options so put it on my backburner. Maybe I should take another look. I thin
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by Soupy 3y ago
https://pastmaps.com Been working on this as a new way to find, explore, and view old historical maps and aerials of my area. Still heavily in development but have been surprised by some early traffic stats (1-2K organic uniques

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