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The story

Built from a real theft.

My bike got stolen. I did everything right — handed the police my photos and a full description and waited.

That's where they stopped. No one was going to refresh five marketplaces every day looking for it. So I did the only thing I knew how to: I built a scraper, wired it up to Claude Vision, and pointed it at Facebook, OfferUp, Craigslist, eBay, and Pinkbike.

It found my bike. I took the listing back to the police, we set up a sting buy, and I rode it home.

Nebo is that search — handed to an AI that never stops looking.

Nick — Founder
Built Nebo after finding his own stolen bike on a marketplace.
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How it started

One stolen bike. Two recoveries. One tool.

Nebo wasn't designed in a pitch deck. It was built in the middle of an actual theft — and the first bike it ever recovered wasn't even mine.

  1. 01

    The theft

    My bike was stolen. I gave the police clear photos and a detailed description, filed the report, and waited for a call that was never going to come.

  2. 02

    Where the system stopped

    There was no one whose job it was to go looking. The report sat in a queue while my bike was almost certainly already listed for sale somewhere online.

  3. 03

    So I built the search

    I wrote a scraper to pull listings from Facebook, OfferUp, Craigslist, eBay, and Pinkbike — then enhanced it with Claude Vision so it could compare my photos against every listing, not just keywords.

  4. 04

    It found my bike

    The scan surfaced a listing with a high confidence score. It was mine, posted under a different name. I took it back to the police, we set up a sting buy, and I recovered my bike.

  5. 05

    Then it found someone else's

    I pointed the scraper at a stolen-bike registry to test it on other reported thefts. It flagged one with a high match against a live Craigslist listing. I messaged the owner the link — and they recovered their bike too.

That second recovery is the whole reason Nebo exists. The same scan that found my bike could find anyone's — so we turned it into an app instead of keeping it as a script on my laptop.

Manifesto

We don't do subscriptions.

Subscriptions made sense for software you use every day. They don't make sense for a watch-list that only matters on the worst day of bike ownership.

Charging $15 a month for the privilege of being protected is a tax on fear — and we're not interested in running that business.

So the app is free. You register your bikes, we keep them on file, and the only thing we charge for is the AI scan that goes and finds one — and only when you choose to run it.

That's the deal. It's the deal we'd want.

Why this matters

Bike theft is the most under-served crime in cities.

~2M
bikes stolen each year in the US alone
<5%
are ever recovered through traditional channels
72 hrs
— the window when most stolen bikes get re-listed for sale

Numbers are illustrative and reflect public reporting; exact figures vary by city and source.

Don't wait until it's gone.

Register your bike now, so Nebo is already watching the day it's stolen.

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