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🧠 15 computers think while Mike turns wrenches
🧠 Background Brain — the shop computers think for Mike
Mike adds a car to the study queue in 5 seconds. Then he goes back to the bench. 15 shop computers spread the diagnosis problem across themselves — scraping every forum, every TSB, every YouTube teardown, every Reddit thread, every iATN report on that exact year + make + model + symptom. By lunch, the answer is waiting.
"Type in your cars · add your cars to this thing and while you're working · the computer is studying everything that could be wrong with that car · scraping every article every blog · and it comes back and it says reasonable deduction has led to this · out of 900 million people this is what it says · and you walk over and go you got the answer to my problem · it goes yes however it is a harness issue it starts with the blue wire it's being pinched by the plastic clip put on in japan by taiwan or whatever and then you're like I knew it." — Papa
💰 Background-brain-earned
LIVE · running on 15 PCs
$0
Awaiting first car in queue · every diagnosis solved without Mike's manual time = saved billable hours
💻 The 15 shop computers (live)
➕ Add a car to the study queue
📋 Cars in the study queue
✅ Answers from the brain
📡 What the 15 computers are watching
🔧 iATN forums
~480k posts
International Automotive Technicians Network · pros only · the real diagnoses
🎥 YouTube teardowns
~2.8M videos
Make-specific channels · auto-transcribed · timestamps on key moments
💬 Reddit r/MechanicAdvice
~1.2M threads
Crowd-sourced fixes · upvoted answers float to top
📋 Mitchell TSBs
~620k bulletins
OEM service bulletins · the manufacturer telling you exactly what fails
🔍 Make-specific forums
~5M threads
F-150 forum · Tacoma World · Silverado Sierra · BimmerForums · etc.
📰 Repairpal complaints
~3.4M user reports
Owner-reported problem patterns · by year/make/model
⚠ NHTSA complaints
~1.1M filed
Federal complaint database · safety patterns surface here first
🛠 Other shops' invoices
growing
SaaS Network shops contribute anonymized fix data · the moat compounds
📌 What's real on this page:
✓ Add a car · saves to queue · animates 15 computers spinning up
✓ Progress bars · animate in real-time · simulate scraping 150-300 sources
✓ Answer reveal · when progress hits 100% a diagnosis card appears with confidence %, evidence sources, next steps
✓ Earnings counter · ticks up as cars complete · simulates Papa's "$400 came in · then $700" vision
✓ Computer grid · 15 tiles · pulse animation shows which are working on which car
⏳ Real version · needs actual scrapers running on shop computers (Python + Playwright is the right tool) · ~3-4 weeks build · uses an LLM at the end to synthesize patterns into a one-paragraph diagnosis
⏳ Cost to operate · ~$0 if it runs on shop PCs overnight · ~$30/mo if you pay a cloud LLM for the synthesis step
✓ Add a car · saves to queue · animates 15 computers spinning up
✓ Progress bars · animate in real-time · simulate scraping 150-300 sources
✓ Answer reveal · when progress hits 100% a diagnosis card appears with confidence %, evidence sources, next steps
✓ Earnings counter · ticks up as cars complete · simulates Papa's "$400 came in · then $700" vision
✓ Computer grid · 15 tiles · pulse animation shows which are working on which car
⏳ Real version · needs actual scrapers running on shop computers (Python + Playwright is the right tool) · ~3-4 weeks build · uses an LLM at the end to synthesize patterns into a one-paragraph diagnosis
⏳ Cost to operate · ~$0 if it runs on shop PCs overnight · ~$30/mo if you pay a cloud LLM for the synthesis step