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https://pastmaps.com This is my side project turned solo bootstrapped startup that I've been working on over the past 2.5 years. Pastmaps has been solely a US-focused platform sinc…

I'm OCR-ing 200K+ historical maps (or at least trying). For example: https://www.threads.com/@that.map.guy.craig/post/DXA59AylJng... This has only really become possible within the…

I've decided to open source cmux - a small minimal set of shell commands geared towards Claude Code to help manage the worktree lifecycle, especially when building with 5-10 parall…

Around 90% of the maps currently on the site are from the US government (USGS). The last 10% are from public institutions and libraries and this is the newest segment that I'm acti…

Hey Brendan! I also would love to add Canadian maps, it's been a huge request from my users and something I've been wanting to focus on all year. A big challenge I have in bringing…

whoa this is wickedly cool! and yes, georeferencing these old maps is the bane of my existence right now awesome project

"Google maps but for old maps": https://pastmaps.com This is a solo startup that I've been working on for 2 years now. It's a labor of love and I'm very lucky and thankful that it'…

Stoke | Bellevue, WA | ONSITE (hybrid) Stoke is a 5-month-old startup (founded in Feb 2025 by insuretech veterans with $4B+ in previous exits across 2 bootstrapped companies) build…

I also run a small B2C company ( https://pastmaps.com ). Here's what worked for me: First 1000 users: daily manually done reddit posts. Very time-consuming and annoying, but it get…

It's currently 60% premium subscriptions to unlock advanced features (LiDAR layers for example) and then 40% for more traditional physical map print sales. I didn't intend to get i…

I also love David Rumsey's collection! Check out the rumsey map center at Stanford if you ever find yourself in the area, it's ridiculously cool Pastmaps was really born out of my …

Soon! I currently only have coverage for the US but I am expanding globally in Q1 2025. Just not enough hours in the day

You hit the nail on the head - my primary use-case is genealogy research!

Thank you! It's actually a bit embarassing but my search uses the central lat,lng returned from Google's places API and then finds all intersecting maps. It's just not the right ap…

No but I love that shop! I actually introduced myself to the owner there and told him about how I also run an online map shop and he got immediately super duper weird. Lol. Cut-thr…

Vast majority are currently from the USGS, but this is going to wildly shift and diversify soon as I've been working to bring a wider variety of sources. The next wave is coming ma…

I run https://pastmaps.com as a lil' solo bootstrapped labor of love. Think Google Maps, but for OLD maps. It has 185K+ fully georeferenced high-res maps covering all of America, a…

https://pastmaps.com I'm building Pastmaps - striving to eventually be the world's largest online collection of old maps, aerials, and photos all packaged into a public historical …

I also have been building and offering my own UI on top of the USGS collection of maps (among others in the public domain) at https://pastmaps.com if anyone else finds the existing…

Oh hey that's me! I sell maps on the internet - https://pastmaps.com After selling my last startup in 2022 and being very burned out I decided to lean deeper into my own hobby - me…

Love it. The core point that I actually took away is driving home the fact that maps are not infallible and this goes against common sense for most people. I don't know if it truly…

Would love to hear some realworld stats from actual projects. Also interested to hear the breakdown of usage between the different major providers such as Google, Facebook, Apple, …

Very doable, these are called mosaics in the GIS world and it's actually not that crazy to do Really love this suggestion, I could see it making map exploration far easier since no…