Matt Jones

The dartboard

52 businesses. One dartboard. No do-overs.

Every week, one small business is drawn at random from a frozen list of 52 trades — by a public process anyone can recompute — and gets a working system built for it in the open, then handed over. It is a gift of opportunity, never a takedown of deficiency. The board below fills in one tile at a time, one episode at a time, until all 52 are scratched.

The commitment

The list of 52 below is frozen. This SHA-256 hash fingerprints it exactly — together with a public randomness beacon pulse, announced on camera before each draw, it makes every draw recomputable by anyone: same list, same pulse, same result.

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SELECTOR — built live in episode 0 · lands here Aug 2

  1. 01Chimney sweeps & inspection
  2. 02Farriers (horseshoeing)
  3. 03Beekeepers / apiary services
  4. 04Septic pumping & service
  5. 05Well drilling & pump repair
  6. 06Tree care / arborists
  7. 07Locksmiths
  8. 08Blacksmiths / custom metal fab
  9. 09Piano tuners
  10. 10Saddle makers & leather repair
  11. 11Gunsmiths
  12. 12Taxidermists
  13. 13Watch & clock repair
  14. 14Upholstery / reupholstery
  15. 15Masonry / stonework
  16. 16Fence installation & repair
  17. 17Land surveying
  18. 18Water treatment & well testing
  19. 19Excavation & grading
  20. 20Welding & mobile welding
  21. 21HVAC (rural/independent)
  22. 22Appliance repair
  23. 23Garage door repair
  24. 24Pool service & repair
  25. 25Pest control (independent)
  26. 26Auto body & collision
  27. 27Boat / marine repair
  28. 28Farm equipment / diesel mechanics
  29. 29Small engine repair
  30. 30Farmers / CSA / farm stands
  31. 31Butchers / custom meat processing
  32. 32Craft bakeries (independent)
  33. 33Food trucks & mobile vendors
  34. 34Caterers (independent)
  35. 35Wedding & event florists
  36. 36Wedding photographers/videographers
  37. 37Wedding & event DJs
  38. 38Party & event rentals
  39. 39Bounce house / inflatable rental
  40. 40Mobile pet grooming
  41. 41Dog trainers (in-person)
  42. 42Boarding kennels / doggy daycare
  43. 43Equine boarding / stables
  44. 44Large-animal / mobile vets
  45. 45Auctioneers (estate & livestock)
  46. 46Antique & estate-sale liquidators
  47. 47Sign painters & custom signage
  48. 48Monument & headstone carvers
  49. 49Portable toilet & restroom rental
  50. 50Junk removal & hauling
  51. 51Firewood suppliers
  52. 52Funeral homes (independent)

How the draw works

One pulse, one hash, no discretion.

  1. A public randomness beacon pulse is announced on camera at the close of each episode — a value nobody controls and everybody can look up.
  2. That pulse is hashed together with the frozen list’s SHA-256 hash above, so the input to every draw is fixed and public.
  3. The result indexes into the industries not yet drawn — the unscratched tiles only, so no trade comes up twice.
  4. The listing snapshot for that draw is frozen at that moment (archived URL + hash) and posted here, so the candidate set can never be edited after the fact.
  5. The top eligible business in that frozen snapshot is the draw.

Dead-draw rule: if no eligible business exists — the industry is effectively invisible online — the draw takes the next business in the same frozen snapshot; if the snapshot holds none, the next pulse redraws. No re-rolls, no discretion.

Policies

Owner-first, on the record.

Takedown

Honor on request, fast. An owner-verified ask takes it down within 48 hours, no argument: the YouTube video goes private, the /work page is pulled, the clips are deleted. The tile stays scratched with “removed at owner’s request” — the 52-chain and the draw proofs stay intact.

Courtesy ping

Every featured business is pinged before publish. The teardown works from public information only, so publish proceeds regardless — and anything shown to be factually wrong is pulled. Receipts post here.