Richard Sam

I somehow forgot we already aggregate votes for media outlets too. Not just politicians and individual articles. You can actually see how people rate BBC, Fox, GB News, NBC etc. and view their charts over time.
So I m finally giving that feature a bit more love.
Also feels like the perfect place to start building out the Home screen properly: a mix of politicians, news, media outlets, trending votes and other stuff instead of just one endless type of content.
Turns out sometimes the best new feature is remembering the features you already built

See for yourself - download Votap from the App Store!

It was a week of refactoring: one response shape across every surface, the structure behind it pulled into one place, and the bugs that turned up while I was in there.

The shape. /ocr/fields, /ocr/markdown and /ocr/text now return the same four keys. values is your data, exactly the schema you asked for and nothing else. cells is a flat map keyed by path, one entry per value, carrying box and quad (both always present, normalized 0 1000), verified, review, and the raw evidence behind that verdict. review is the summary: declared, returned, boxed, verified, flagged[], by_reason. image is the source size, for turning the normalized boxes back into pixels. Full shape with a worked example: https://space-ocr.com/docs#post-...

The problem is you usually don't feel this until you've been burned a few times or watched enough shortcut-takers flame out. When you're starting, the loud examples are the guys who juiced a launch with fake urgency, sold something half-real, and cashed out before the reviews caught up. It looks like it works.

But those wins don't stack. The founders who actually build something durable are boring by comparison they pick a real problem, tell the truth about what the product does, and let trust accumulate. Slow, then suddenly.

I think about this a lot when hunting for startup ideas, because a shady angle can look like a great opportunity right up until it isn't. That's part of why I built SoloVault to surface early market signals and turn them into things actually worth building, not just things that spike.

https://solovault.info/