Lost and Found

43 points
1/21/1970
2 days ago
by walz

Comments


marysol5

>When something turns up at a stadium or an airport, staff photograph it, log it, and wait. Hundreds of places use one software tool for managing lost items, and I scraped their archives: thousands of accidental portraits of lost stuff.

Where? What Software? What Archive?

So many photos of peoples lock screens with clearly visible faces...

a day ago

ChrisArchitect

scraped from....where? The Lost & Found systems are all public? Sorry I haven't had to dig something out of a lost & found that wasn't a cardboard box under a front desk or whatever...

2 days ago

spelk

It is scraped from Pixit. They sell lost/found, evidence + seized item management systems. [1] The listings are public; it was cool OP turned this into a mini art piece.

[1] https://www.pixithq.com/

2 days ago

marysol5

Is there really enough market for an actual software solution like this?

I worked alongside the lost&found office at an old job, we just had a spreadsheet and a book...

a day ago

happytoexplain

>Hundreds of places use one software tool for managing lost items, and I scraped their archives

Am I not understanding your question? It's one system - and either their archives are public on purpose, or their endpoints are simply unsecured.

2 days ago

axus

Picture of a lost iPhone, with a message to call the owner at a phone number. Guess taking pictures was in the job description, and returning lost property wasn't.

2 days ago

RankingMember

Walzr's stuff is a fun portal into an earlier era of lighthearted fun internet projects. Keep it up buddy. Bop Spotter is probably still my favorite.

2 days ago

bobbiechen

He's right up there with Neal Agarwal (neal.fun) and Nolen Royalty (eieio.games) for me. I recently got to interview Nolen on keeping the internet fun and creative for my blog: https://digitalseams.com/blog/nolen-royalty-on-making-things

2 days ago

jmclnx

I was thinking this was directory "lost+found", but it is about "lost and found" at places like airports.

2 days ago

russfink

Go ahead and cut a notch out of my expertise card, but in all my years playing with UNIX, I’ve never used that directory.

2 days ago

stevewodil

You don’t use it, the system might in edge cases

2 days ago

jmclnx

I have had items put there a few time on an fsck. Not often but it has happened.

2 days ago