When Pursarth Tuladhar set out to find his first few customers for a tech startup he had just launched, he didn’t expect to stumble upon a new mission. It is one rooted not in digital innovation, but in analog charm.

To attract those early users, Pursarth printed a handful of flyers and planned to post them on community bulletin boards around San Francisco. But first, he needed to know where those bulletin boards were.

“I figured there must be a list online,” he said. “I Googled. Nothing. I asked on Reddit. Still nothing. I even tried ChatGPT. No luck.”

Rather than give up, Pursarth decided to create the list himself, and better yet, to map it.

Armed with curiosity and a bike, he began canvassing the city, neighborhood by neighborhood.

“I’d schedule days to target specific areas,” he

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