This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle
PROVENANCE is a private, fully-offline antique appraisal and listing writer for resellers who flip on eBay, Etsy, Depop, and Facebook Marketplace.
You drop a photo of an item. It gives you back:
Everything runs on your laptop. Nothing leaves the room. $0 per appraisal after setup.
Who would pay for it? Serious resellers — people doing 50–200+ items a month. They're already paying cloud listing tools $20–$50/month. PROVENANCE replaces that with a $29 one-time license (or $9/month for model updates). At 50 items/month, it pays back in under two months. At 200 items/month, the savings are $80–$100/month, forever.
The unsolved problem: estate sales happen in basements with no Wi-Fi. Purchase costs and sourcing locations are competitive intelligence — resellers don't want them on a server. And cloud listing tools charge per-item, which compounds at volume.
Try it with zero setup: If Ollama is not installed, MOCK MODE activates automatically — the full UI runs with realistic canned responses so you can evaluate the product before installing anything.
bash
git clone https://github.com/sohaibq914/HACKTOBER_W2
cd HACKTOBER_W2
.\start.ps1 # Windows — installs deps, starts both servers, opens browser
./start.sh # Linux / macOS