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title: "Plant an Idea — parcel prototype"
description: "A working parcel demo: plant an idea on a real vacant storefront, agree or disagree with what others planted, and see a cited local blocker with a named next step. Built at Building for SF for 225 Bush Street."
canonical: https://innercartography.one/hyperblogs/plant-an-idea-app/
last_updated: 2026-09-12
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# Plant an Idea — parcel prototype

> A working parcel demo: plant an idea on a real vacant storefront, agree or disagree with what others planted, and see a cited local blocker with a named next step. Built at Building for SF for 225 Bush Street.

Source: https://innercartography.one/hyperblogs/plant-an-idea-app/
*Hyperblog by Michael Lopez · 2026-09-12*

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# Plant an Idea

Parcel prototype · Building for SF · one place, one graph

## 00 Which space are you standing in front of?

We are standing across from the vacant ground-floor retail at 225 Bush. Three ways in — any of them pulls the parcel record.

A sticker beside the "Retail Space Available" sign in the window at 225 Bush. Scanning it opens this page with the parcel already loaded.

**Sticker in the window**

Encodes the block and lot. No app, no account.

Type the street address. Matches against the parcel list, then pulls the record.

Nothing matching? — the tool only ever cites what's in that record.

A Gaussian splat or photo set of the space. Capture metadata carries the location, which resolves to the parcel.

Drop a scan or photo here

## 01 The parcel

City *›* District *›* Block *›* This parcel

Everything the response cites comes from here. Nothing is invented.

## 02 Who are you?

One tap. It decides which next steps you get shown, and lets the system see whether an idea has support across different kinds of people.

## 03 225 Bush · master repo

Every idea here is its own repo. This parcel is the master. Issues are the open questions; a commit is an answer somebody went and found.

local only

## 04 Ideas growing in this space

Not a vote tally. Where each idea actually is, what it needs next, and who is carrying it.

## 05 Plant an idea

I'm entering this on someone else's behalf

## 06 The graph, in the room

Every idea sits on an actual surface. Tap one to see what it's wired to. Tap a constraint to see which other ideas hit the same wall.

idea
constraint
who answers it
money

## 07 Nothing gets scrapped

An idea that doesn't work here isn't dead. It's mislocated.

Ten parcels in one district, and the same response becomes: not this address, try that one, and here's who to call.

**Every civic tool tells people no. This one tells them where.**

## 08 Export

Nothing persists on its own. Export before closing the tab.

225 Bush · spatial knowledge graph

Drag to rotate · scroll to zoom · tap a node

Agent view

1 / 1

draft

idea

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