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I've been wanting to build a service like this to watch foot traffic around retail businesses and restaurants. Then provide the data for investors. Kind of like
by jameslk 11y ago
I've been wanting to build a service like this to watch foot traffic around retail businesses and restaurants. Then provide the data for investors. Kind of like that company that uses satellite imagery to watch parking lots to measure patronage.
- hendzen 11y agoHedge funds are already doing this with satellite imagery. It turns out you can get a very good idea of Home Depot's revenue for next quarter by looking at how many cars are in the parking lot.
- vdnkh 11y agoThere's a startup in NYC that does this called Placemeter. Buy a camera, point it out the window, collect data
- Symbiote 11y agoThere's a link. The article says: > Thomas Richard and Godfrey Yeung, the former Placemeter interns who created the map
- obelisk_ 11y agoThe whole thing the article is about is Placemeter as far as I can tell. Your quote made it seem like they were formerly Placemeter interns who later created the map.
- rco8786 11y agoDidn't click the link, eh?
- jonknee 11y agoThat's exactly what the company here is doing.
- jameslk 11y agoYeah I just noticed that in the second to last paragraph. They definitely have a clever solution for doing this.