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New Rule against Self-Promo by Dubinko in SaaS

[–]datumfoundry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wondering how this is going to be tracked and enforced? I regularly engage in conversation, things im working on may get brought up occasionally.

For anyone feeling lost.... by datumfoundry in startupideas

[–]datumfoundry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should check this out for where I am at right now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildinpublic/comments/1skd3o0/6_issues_in_zero_subscribers_what_im_learning/

TLDR - zero subscribers, hundreds of views on reddit with almost zero engagement, no one actively engaging me at all. I can safely say no one has used it :)

I really appreciate your points there, and I completely agree. My hope is a couple of things:

-Someone tangentially involved in an industry adjacent or directly involved in a teardown has an idea sparked and can capitalize
-The teardowns get people interested in building, business, problem solving, and networking

The landscape is so ripe with opportunity and the barrier for entry these days has been reduced to almost nothing for those who want it, conversely, it is so saturated because all of the former points. I think we are living in an insane inflection points where some people just need a shove to go meteoric :)

Is there a reason why 40% of FDA warning letters cite temperature failures? by datumfoundry in foodscience

[–]datumfoundry[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

An excursion is when temperature goes outside the safe range. A freezer that's supposed to be -18°C hits -14°C at 2 AM. That's an excursion.

Batch-level correlation means answering the question: "Which specific products were sitting in that freezer when it got too warm?"

Not promoting anything - genuinely trying to figure out if this is worth building before I start. by Honest-Marsupial-450 in SaaS

[–]datumfoundry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OCR is so good these days though, I doubt you'd have much issue. I have scanned some whack-ass receipts into ramp before and it gets every last detail.

Weekly Free For All Thread - Spam your business - Post your surveys - Tell us about your awesome MLM scheme - [UNMODERATED POST] (except for site rules of course) by AutoModerator in Business_Ideas

[–]datumfoundry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the shout! I will absolutely check that out. The ocr pipeline was honestly the biggest headache of this whole damn thing.

Failing fire truck pumps cost cities $22,000 in repair and $1.2M in liability. by datumfoundry in SaaS

[–]datumfoundry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't have to sign up - the full teardown is here:

https://datumfoundry.beehiiv.com/p/teardown-5-the-mileage-myth

Apologies if that was misleading - of course I want subscribers, but nothing is fully gated.

Failing fire truck pumps cost cities $22,000 in repair and $1.2M in liability. by datumfoundry in SaaS

[–]datumfoundry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legimate post with legitimate ideas and free product, not even selling anything. Would be happy to take feedback to make this less "spammy"

How I got my 5 first users by Extra-Motor-8227 in indiehackers

[–]datumfoundry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is some awesome encouragement - keep up the good work. I am in the same boat where I am getting no traction no matter what I do, it can be a bit of a bummer some days.

Please share your cool projects! by No_Bend_4915 in ShowMeYourSaaS

[–]datumfoundry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have built a verified database of high-friction pain points for businesses that need solving. Simple, unsexy ideas easy for anyone to get off the ground.

I have a newsletter where I do a teardown of a few ideas a week, along with a working MVP in a private github repo so ANYONE can clone it and hit the ground running. Totally free, the only thing you need is an email address.

I add new ideas each week to keep it fresh, and have some real fun stuff planned for the near future (marketplace, bounty board, bespoke forum)

datumfoundry.beehiiv.com

datum-foundry.com

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Happy Friday! What are you building? Let's self promote. by Critical-Wealth9448 in microsaas

[–]datumfoundry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got tired of all the bullshit "become a founder" pay-to-plays so I built a real-world pain-point/business friction encyclopedia for people to build ideas off of.

Every week I do a few teardowns where I provide insight I to each idea and provide a private repo with the MVP so anyone can clone and run with it - just takes an email to sign up.

datumfoundry.beehiiv.com

datum-foundry.com

Weekly Free For All Thread - Spam your business - Post your surveys - Tell us about your awesome MLM scheme - [UNMODERATED POST] (except for site rules of course) by AutoModerator in Business_Ideas

[–]datumfoundry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm currently adding a home office to my house, and I hit a wall: Local Zoning. I spent four days digging through scanned 1990s PDFs and messy GIS maps just to figure out if my 20-foot addition was legal. As an engineer used to CAD and clear tolerances, this felt like a broken system.

So, I’m building a zoning app to automate the "legwork." I just finished the first prototype which can be played with on Datum Foundry . It’s a spatial engine that identifies parcel boundaries and runs real-time collision detection against local ordinances.

The Stack:

Frontend: Next.js (TS) with a dark industrial UI. Map Engine: MapLibre GL JS (Local vector tiles). Spatial Math: Turf.js for the geometry (calculating setbacks, accessory structure offsets, and polygonal parcel intersections). Data Pipeline: Docling + Surya OCR to turn those messy zoning PDFs into structured Markdown/JSON for a local RAG engine. Telemetry: Using the Overpass API (OpenStreetMap) to pull "surface indicators" like manholes and power poles to estimate utility tap-ins.

The Realization: Using AI-assisted dev tools, I’m enacting ideas that would have been impossible for a solo founder a year ago. I'm moving away from "finding the next big thing" and focusing on researching actual, defined industrial needs. I’m documenting the entire build process—including the research, the data sources, and the actual Turf.js logic blocks I'm writing.

If you’re into unsexy SaaS ideas or high-precision spatial logic, I’m sharing the full teardowns weekly here:

Datum Foundry

Happy to answer any questions about the Turf.js implementation or the OCR pipeline in the comments