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Yupp, which raised a $33M seed led by a16z crypto in 2024 for a crowdsourced AI model picker, shuts down, saying it didn't reach strong product-market fit (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/yupp-ai-shuts-down-33m-a16z-crypto-chris-…

Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto's Chris Dixon | TechCrunch
Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

'AI tools developed at the University of Oxford for analysing ... text collections. They enable the identification of keywords, topics, and categories of terms' - particularly in crowdsourced / community archives https://github.com/Digital-Scholarship-Oxfor…

GitHub - Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools: Crowdsourced data tools
Crowdsourced data tools. Contribute to Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

pretty impressed with this crowdsourced product from a few years ago, it just got support merged into the latest product line, the old #SDRs getting again support. https://www.crowdsupply.com/fa…

Continued Support & Unified SDR Stack
As part of our ongoing development, we've decided to support the legacy Fairwaves XTRX hardware and revive a project that has been largely inactive in recent years.

How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE https://www.404media.co/how-one-guy-crowdsourced-more-than-500-dashcams-for-minneapolis-to-film-ice/

US digital rights group Holistic Resilience launched Mahsa Alert to provide Iranians with offline mapping and strike notifications, hitting 100K DAUs in days (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/iranians-dont-have-a-missile-aler…

Iranians Don’t Have a Missile Alert System, So Volunteers Built Their Own Warning Map
The crowdsourced website and app Mahsa Alert provides citizens in Iran with crucial information amid the country’s ongoing war with the US and Israel—and an internet blackout.

There are a few sites using the UK government API for fuel prices, but I suspect, based on military choices, the crowdsourced "availability" reports may actually be the thing that's critical.
(Not sure why availability wasn't part of the API, given the chaos of September 2021.)
https://checkfuelprices.co.uk

Check Fuel Prices – Find the Cheapest Petrol & Diesel Near You
Live UK fuel prices from thousands of petrol stations including Shell, BP, Gulf, and more. Compare prices for E10, E5, B7, and SDV near you using our interactive map or postcode search.

"Celebrating Seven Years of By the People"
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/03/by-the-people-turns-7/
"We turned seven during the Fall of last year and we’ve been waiting to make a very exciting announcement: Our volunteers completed one milli…

'AI tools developed at the University of Oxford for analysing ... text collections. They enable the identification of keywords, topics, and categories of terms' - particularly in crowdsourced / community archives https://github.com/Digital-Scholarship-Oxfor…

Niantic Spatial partners with Coco Robotics to integrate a visual positioning system trained on data from Pokemon Go and Ingress into a fleet of delivery robots (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/1

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.