Photograph a parking sign and know if you can park here
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You pull up, and there are four signs stacked on one pole. No parking 8–10am Tuesdays, two-hour limit except permit holders, street cleaning first Monday, tow-away zone during events. You read it three times and still aren't sure. Point your phone at it and get one answer: yes, you can park here until 6pm. Or no, not today. Everyone who drives in a city has stood in front of that pole. The cost of getting it wrong is a ticket or a towed car, so the problem is frequent, painful and instantly understood — which is exactly what a mass-market app needs. The hard part is being right. Reading the text off a sign is the easy half. The rules underneath aren't on the sign at all: public holidays that suspend them, temporary event restrictions, what "except permit" means in that district. A confident wrong "yes" costs someone a tow, and they'll never open the app again. So it has to say when it isn't sure. "Probably yes — but check, there's a holiday exception we can't confirm" is worth more than false confidence. Starts in one city with dense, confusing signage. Grows by city once the rules data is solid there.
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- Free for a few checks a month. $3.99/mo unlimited. The real money is later: once it knows where you parked and when you have to move, paying for the parking itself from inside the app is one tap away.
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Build photograph a parking sign and know if you can park here. Context: You pull up, and there are four signs stacked on one pole. No parking 8–10am Tuesdays, two-hour limit except permit holders, street cleaning first Monday, tow-away zone during events. You read it three times and still aren't sure. Point your phone at it and get one answer: yes, you can park here until 6pm. Or no, not today. Everyone who drives in a city has stood in front of that pole. The cost of getting it wrong is a ticket or a towed car, so the problem is frequent, painful and instantly understood — which is exactly what a mass-market app needs. The hard part is being right. Reading the text off a sign is the easy half. The rules underneath aren't on the sign at all: public holidays that suspend them, temporary event restrictions, what "except permit" means in that district. A confident wrong "yes" costs someone a tow, and they'll never open the app again. So it has to say when it isn't sure. "Probably yes — but check, there's a holiday exception we can't confirm" is worth more than false confidence. Starts in one city with dense, confusing signage. Grows by city once the rules data is solid there. Requirements: - Ship the smallest version that delivers the core value above, nothing more. - Pick a stack you can deploy in a day, and state the choice before writing code. - Handle the empty state, the error state and the offline case explicitly. - Pricing to build toward: Free for a few checks a month. $3.99/mo unlimited. The real money is later: once it knows where you parked and when you have to move, paying for the parking itself from inside the app is one tap away. Start by listing the screens, then build them one at a time.