● On the roadmap · not live yet
Watching the resale market is what we're building next.
Every registry can log your stolen bike; almost none go looking for it afterward. That gap is the reason FoundWall exists — and closing it honestly takes a source-by-source access review before a single listing is read. None of it is running today.
Status: no marketplace is scanned by FoundWall today. Reporting an item now means the record is ready when the watch ships.
Kijiji · City of Toronto · posted 2h ago
Marketplace · Scarborough · posted 5h ago
Craigslist · Quinte West · posted 1d ago
Why we're building it
Thieves don't keep what they take. They sell it — within days, on a board near you.
The listing is the moment an item becomes findable again. Catch it and you have a photo, a price, a timestamp and a location. Watching for that listing is where this product is heading — the rest of this page is the plan, written down before it ships rather than after.
Where we intend to look
The boards stolen goods pass through.
Canada resells on these. Each one needs its own access basis — terms, rate limits, what may be retained and shown — recorded and reviewed before we read a single page. None of these is being swept today; the tags below describe how open each board is, not a live schedule.
Canada's busiest classifieds board and the first place a stolen bike or mower reappears. Category and city pages are fully public, which makes it the first source we intend to bring up.
Open · no loginEnormous local volume, but listings sit behind an account and change layout often. Any pass here would be light and rate-limited, leaning on titles, price and neighbourhood — and it needs an access basis we do not have yet.
Login-gatedThinner in Canada than the US, still busy in the big metros for bikes and electronics. Public pages, so the plan is to read them city by city against your last-seen radius.
Open · no loginMostly US, growing at the border — relevant for cross-border items and drones that travel. Login-gated, so it sits behind the same access review as Marketplace and is the last one we would add.
Login-gatedHow matching would work
A match is a probability, never a verdict.
The design is settled even though the code is not. Your notice becomes a fingerprint: brand, model, colour, frame size and the city radius you last saw it in. A listing would be scored against it, nothing surfaced unless the signals stack up — and even then it is a lead for you to judge, never a conviction. The scorecard beside this is an illustration of that output.
Illustration. Frame + colour + city aligned; serial unverified — that would always be yours to confirm.
Where we stand
What we intend to build is personal monitoring on the owner's behalf: reading public listings you could read yourself, and telling you when one resembles the thing you reported missing. It will not accuse the seller, will not contact them for you, and will not decide anything is stolen — it hands you a listing, a price, a timestamp and a location, the same evidence you'd gather by refreshing the board every hour. Whatever happens next, a conversation, a marketplace report or a police file, stays your call. Every source has to clear its own access review before it goes on, and no source has cleared it yet.
What ships first
The order we'll build it in.
Publishing this before the code exists is deliberate. If any line below ever describes something we are doing without saying so here, the page is wrong and should be corrected — not the other way round.
No dates attached on purpose — we would rather ship late than claim early.
Put the record on the wall now. The watch comes to it.
A notice takes two minutes and works today: public, searchable, and reachable by whoever finds your item. Every notice filed now is one the watch can cover the day it ships.