Man, trying to pick a visitor counter for a supermarket is a headache. Seriously. You think it’s simple—it counts people, right? Wrong. I spent six months of my life trying to figure this out, and let me tell you, I learned the hard way that 90% of the stuff out there...
Man, let me tell you about my buddy Mike. He runs a small coffee shop, right? Good coffee, nice spot. But every time I asked him how business was, he just shrugged. “Seems okay, maybe thirty or forty people came in.” Guessing. That’s a terrible way to run...
The Setup: Why Simple Traffic Counting is a Headache I needed a new project, and honestly, a distraction. A friend of mine runs a small, local hardware store—you know the kind that smells like oil and old wood. He was always complaining that he truly had no idea how...
So, the thing is, I’ve been messing around with retail tech for a while now, not just coding, but the actual stuff that makes a shop run better. This whole experiment started because my cousin opened a small clothing spot downtown, and after three months, he was...
Man, let me tell you, I was absolutely sick of hearing my buddy Bill complain. He owns this small vintage records shop, and he was convinced his ancient IR beam counter was stealing his foot traffic numbers. Sales were down, and he kept saying, “More people walk...
Man, setting up a reliable visitor counter has always been a pain. We tried standard single-lens setups before, right? Just plain background subtraction and tracking. It was garbage. Shadows messed it up, two people standing close together looked like one person, and...
