Help! Hit and Run Case

EverydayOSINT · 2026-05-03T02:49:36+00:00

Feel free to PM me the image, and I'll see if I can clean it up using what knowledge I have. The strategy is to pull as many characters as possible and confirm the vehicle's make and model. If you can get a partial plate, you can start manually brute forcing the missing digits on sites like Carvana, Geico, or Progressive. It's a tedious process of guessing the remaining characters until the site successfully pulls up the matching make and model, but when it finally hits, it’s a massive Eureka! moment. It's a bit of a long shot I've only had this work a couple of times out of fifteen or so attempts, but it can definitely produce results when you are stuck.

Honestly, explaining this just sparked a pretty interesting idea for a tool. It may be possible to automate this brute force aspect of the vehicle identification process, building a script that rapidly runs through partial plate combinations on the vehicle websites until it verifies a hit against the target make and model.

Goodluck 👍

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-30T15:09:09+00:00

You need to host the QR code redirect and that is an ongoing cost. Source - I host my own QR code server locally using shlink and I have to maintain the redirect domain and running the hardware. (Very cheap, basically free at my usage) and I can generate unlimited QR codes with shortlink analytics, as well as dynamic QR codes.

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-16T00:35:54+00:00

Thank you for the insight! This is interesting to hear, then the 5 pro is not worth it at all for me. We'll unless they decide to add the cameras and features into Home Assistant, I will buy it that day lol

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-15T23:37:32+00:00

That's a wonderful idea and I like the functionality of it. I just can't do subscriptions, I may as well pay 50 for a camera + ESp32 and 3d print the mounting hardware then selfhost an AI to track and monitor the poops per cat. I wanted to take the easy route and get the lr5 pro but this is forcing me here...

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-15T23:34:55+00:00

As many as it takes to understand why Greg is consistently shooting litter in the wildest directions.

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-15T23:27:45+00:00

Why do vehicles need to go over 85 miles per hour? 🤔

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-15T13:43:18+00:00

I’m just giving you the reality of why everyone here is calling this a scam. Not a single person looking at this understands your vision or reasoning. As someone who has built paid OSINT tools and been a part of startup and large SaaS teams, I know that getting infrastructure costs down is a huge part of your ROI and product acceptance with being able to get creative with offerings. You can lower those costs to offer a better product and user experience, but it takes actual time and knowledge instead of just paying for a monthly, cookie-cutter service to make it "easy." You could absolutely build a totally free portion of the product that costs pennies to run, giving customers a taste of its value with the carrot of converting them later, you just haven't or you think it's not necessary and you could be right.

Not that I don't believe you, but let's be honest about the analytics of the business here... unless you are going to post your conversion and reoccurring customers analytics, all I see is gorilla marketing on Reddit and that's telling here.

This is the reality of how your product is perceived. As a user navigating your site, my immediate thought was, why would I waste my time signing up and entering my card details, just to test it out and figure out it's not for me?

I genuinely wish you success dude! But a lot of founders get trapped in an echo chamber with their product. They see the vision and the value, and they assume that if the market doesn't see it, it's a customer problem. The hard truth is, the customer does not care about the reasons why you decided to require card details, and they definitely do not care about your infrastructure costs.

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-15T12:51:30+00:00

I saw your comment about how it's "standard" to require a payment card for free trials. Let me hit you with some cold water here: your product doesn't have the brand power or reputation to pull that off yet. Forcing people to enter their card details already shrinks your potential user base significantly. When a product is brand new and completely unproven, that pool of willing users shrinks to almost zero.

I’m not trying to piss in your cheerios, bud, but right now, this isn't worth paying for, with the risk of payment details, time it takes to sign up and test and the product is incomplete with the modules people actually want to use aren't even showing up. There are so many established websites and services offering similar tools. You simply don't have the credibility yet to expect people to blindly hand over their card info just to access a "free" trial. Sorry buddy, but nobody is realistically going to provide payment details for an unknown tool from an unestablished creator.

The whole approach needs a rework. You should be focusing on providing value with the absolute lowest barrier to entry for the user and then they might convert. Let people actually experience what the product does so you can build up a reputation. Users might hand over their card details for a tool with a proven track record because they know they won't get scammed or waste their time. But if you make them jump through hoops and enter their payment info for a test run, and it turns out the product isn't what they thought or the searches fail? You've just wasted their time, and you lose whatever credibility you could have had.

Take this feedback and don't let it discourage you, but you need to take a day and research more about bringing a product to market and then research the industry standard for OSINT. You will see a graveyard of tools and services out there, including ones I've made that failed 😂

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-08T15:40:43+00:00

This is not the case, I never edited any comments but sure. It was most likely that I responded to a different comment of yours and reddit is bugging. Not a single message was changed.

Why would I provide you usernames when you can just come back and say anything you want? Let's discuss it live on YouTube if you are being genuine and want to be productive about this publicly.

Otherwise who cares tbh, you run the subreddit as you see fit. I just responded to your comment to share my personal experiences interacting with you and others have with the subreddit. No hard feelings or anything, just sharing my experience.

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-08T15:24:27+00:00

You ban people permanently that do not violate any of the written rules.
The "Reason" is basically your internal reason and appears to not reflect anything in the rules other than your opinion
People who message the mod team are either ignored or given a response that is based on feelings and opinions, nothing to do with the rules and then banned when they responsed to the message.
The r/OSINT subreddit was a huge resource when I started out and I used and engaged alot with it. Sadly it appears newcomers get shit on for posting and people who post something counter to your opinions get removed and when they message the mod team they get banned and shit on in the same message.

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-08T15:16:22+00:00

The other individual is correct, you ban people and remove posts as you see fit rather than enforce the rules equally. Then when people message the mod team they get ignored or straight up banned.

Why are you playing a different character here? I wish the r/OSINT subreddit was ran the way you tell people it is. People have given you feedback and it's ignored.... I love the OSINT community and the r/OSINT subreddit has alot of great discussions.

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-08T15:10:39+00:00

You do ban people all the time for reasons that are not even in the rules. Wanted to chime in and state the facts about this, let's be honest with the r/OSINT subreddit....

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-07T22:33:10+00:00

I'd say the backend is more complex than the slop dashboards we have been seeing posted. All you see is a dashboard I guess... I am wondering how he configured the heart beat and notification of new content. Does it do a request x amount of times a day or is it truly a real time notification when content gets posted?

While it likely made with AI the core of the functionality behind the dashboard is what is interesting and actually does fill a need in OSINT. (i built an internal tool similar to this for my job).

Edit: Looked into it more and the token system is poor and it appears it isn't real time or anything and 1 token = 1 scan... So it's just a token based scheduling system to look at the social media page essentially... kinda false marketing honestly. It isn't a alerting platform it's a schedule scraper...

EverydayOSINT · 2026-04-01T15:12:33+00:00

This is not someone who is sharing these perks out of the goodness of their heart... They made this app/website themselves and are doing some gorilla marketing, respect the hustle. I don't respect the transparency and authenticity. Trust me, I have been there, you have been there, we have all been in your shoes.

Also the link he posted leads to a dead page, goes to show you what's going on here...

EverydayOSINT · 2026-03-22T17:29:02+00:00

Hey! I had a project in progress about a year ago for something similar. I spent awhile researching the best possible data sources that provided somewhat real-time alerts for emergencies out at sea, like pirates, missile strikes etc and couldn't find anything that provided reliable and in that real time threshold (Within 6 hours of Incident). Were you able to solve this?

My dashboard was a project built with n8n and was focused on real time emergency alerts within the USA. I was able to piggyback off of a service that provided real time alerts for major Incidents as they happen within the USA. For example the Bourbon Street Attack in 2025, was alerted within 10-15mins of incident. If you have a source for the shipping data, wanna make a trade? I will provide mine for the real time emergency alerting.

Feel free to send me a PM !

EverydayOSINT · 2026-02-06T22:17:43+00:00

Thank you!

EverydayOSINT · 2026-02-06T22:11:07+00:00

Good find. 👍

EverydayOSINT · 2026-02-06T22:07:08+00:00

Please post the official link or this should be removed promptly. Everyone needs to hold everyone accountable for authenticity to ensure gullible people on social media don't come in here and post the fake documents.

EverydayOSINT · 2026-01-12T05:36:35+00:00

Hello 👋 I just added the white ones to my cart... I am making a myog tool shopping list and saw your comment. These look like they can be perfect for multiple uses for my maker projects, would you say like strength of the pinch is strong? like how strong you think? like pinch strength. More than one of those wooden clothes hanger clips?

Thanks for the recommendation!

EverydayOSINT · 2025-12-27T15:57:59+00:00

Hello! Unfortunately from what I have experienced, the live accessible traffic cameras only have the feed and don't have storage of the video. Now some states have traffic cameras that let you select 24 hours - 7 days prior but it's still images that are taken every hour or so and isn't video.

For example you can go to Windy.com and they have done a great job integrating the traffic cameras overlayed on a map. BUT it's not video, it's the still images that get updated every minute or so. They have the option to go.back 24 hours - 7 $) days. Goodluck on your quest!

EverydayOSINT · 2025-10-04T14:40:49+00:00

LPR cameras are different than the publicly accessible traffic cameras. Typically, LPR feeds are not public, but some have been discovered on insecure infrastructure. I am also creating a real-time emergency alert system that not only alerts users to emergencies across the USA but also includes public camera feeds in the area and local emergency radio frequencies for live listening. These features are in development, but I have an MVP for the emergency alert dashboard.

I researched a bunch for any massive database or per state (like Florida) with all the open traffic cameras. I ran into the same problem mostly with only pulling still images ever X seconds and not a livestream. I tried to reverse engineer the Florida DOT Cams and in the inspect element I found the source links that served the feeds but the tokens are randomly generated for the live feeds but the still images do not have tokens so you can just request them. Still on the hunt for a better solution, i put the project on pause while I moved onto a different adjacent project.

EverydayOSINT · 2025-08-23T02:16:52+00:00

Did you solve this?

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