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> "I’d have to travel from store to store and spend 45 seconds cracking each card. I estimated that I could expect to make about $600 a day." Or you could make

by bobds 16y ago

> "I’d have to travel from store to store and spend 45 seconds cracking each card. I estimated that I could expect to make about $600 a day." Or you could make an app for your smartphone that uses OCR to instantly tell you whether you are looking at a winning ticket.

VMG 16y ago
or buy them directly in bulk
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- Rygu 16y ago
  But buying losing tickets means you're losing money, so you'd want to avoid that and only buy winning tickets.
- bobds 16y ago
  Wouldn't you want that app even more if you were buying them in bulk?
datac 16y ago
App might last for few days in the App Store before it gets pulled out. Either way, it will be cool to create one.
patrickk 16y ago
Your comment reminds me of the great article that was on here some time ago about the guy who used a PDA and barcode scanner to search book stores for cheap books he could sell on Amazon for a profit: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1764895 A highly recommended read.
ashbrahma 16y ago
Google Goggles can already solve Sudoku using OCR--http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/01/google-goggles-app-that-solves.html http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/01/... So what you are suggesting isn't that far fetched.