How I Built an AI Towed Car Finder That Searches 200+ Impound Lots Instantly

It Started at 2am in Austin Picture this: It's 2am on a Saturday in Austin, Texas. I walk out of a venue on 6th Street and my car is just... gone. No sign. No warning. Just an empty parking spot and that sinking feeling in your stomach. What followed was three hours of pure frustration. I called Austin's tow hotline — busy. I Googled "where is my towed car Austin" and got a city website that looked like it was built in 2003. I called three different impound lots. One didn't pick up. One said they don't have a database search. The third told me to call back during business hours. At 5am, sleep-deprived and furious, I finally found my car at a lot on the south side of town. $285 to get it back. And as I drove home, the engineer in me couldn't stop thinking: why is this so absurdly hard? I'm Ty — I'm an AI Software Engineer at Microsoft by day and I run Stringz Technologies on the side. That night in Austin was the moment TowJI was born. The Problem is Worse Than You Think Here's what I d