garbagescout blog

Now then…

OK, I’m making the code for Garbagescout available for sale.

What you get:

• email parser - receives the email and puts its contents in the right places;
• geocoder - tries to translate street names into latitude and longitude;
• UI - the server-side code that generates the HTML you see;
• maps scripts - the javascript behind the Google Map

I’ll also help you out getting it all set up.

The code is licensed to you under the terms of the GPL. Be sure you understand the terms you’re agreeing to! The only further stipulation is that the site you create can’t be a site for scouting garbage in New York City. I know that’s vague, so I’m relying on your honesty.

The code itself is not the most beautiful stuff in the world, but it’s clear and commented. I basically banged this out in a month, and the code could be improved in several places.

The price is $300 for non-commercial use, which means you can not profit from the use or sale of the code I sell you, except spiritually. It’s $1000 if you’re going to use the code to make money, make it part of a for-profit web site, or try to sell it (hopefully after making some improvements). Again, here I rely on you to be honest. This code will only be useful to you if you are a programmer.

Feel free to contact me with questions. It’s jim eat garbagescout doubt com.

I just deleted 529 pieces of spam! If your comment was among the spam, please accept my apologies. You can email me at “jim” @ the name of this site.

You may have noticed, there are ads. You may also notice that they’re mostly for ringtones and online poker. In this way, they match the attempted comment spam on this wiki.

Is anyone against the ads?

Want to buy one? This site reaches thousands of cheapskates.

This is what you’d call a soft launch. The email address for posting is sf@garbagescout.com, and the format of the email is still a picture, along with text like description @ address, for instance, I don’t know, tambourine @ 1540 Haight St.

At the suggestion of GarbageScout user Swerzzz, there is now a email-to-a-fiend form on each detail page, like this. Yes, now not only are our streets full of weird stuff people have discarded, you can email pictures of it to your friends.

By the way, thanks very much to the two users of GarbageScout with whom I am not personally acquainted. You are helping keep it going while I promote like crazy and try to get more users.

This will be the development blog and garbage discussion site for garbagescout. The Alpha is now up, but still too rough around the edges to show anyone. Today I’ll open up the home page and try to start getting some people to post. It’s exciting. I hope this project goes somewhere.