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For ages I have dreamed about a service where shoppers could visit flea markets and do an immediate auction if they find something of value. There would be a li
by Tichy 16y ago
For ages I have dreamed about a service where shoppers could visit flea markets and do an immediate auction if they find something of value. There would be a live stream of "interesting" items on the site, and anybody who wants to buy could immediately connect to the shopper to make him buy the item.
I guess there were too many problems with this model, and I didn't expect high interest (I was more in love with it from a tech angle, doing stuff with phones...). But I just realized that this book scanning business is actually a viable subset of that idea. If image recognition was better, it could also work for other items besides books. (Perhaps image recognition technology is actually good enough by now).