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Issue Nº 4 · "Five in one listing"

Wednesday May 20, 2026 · 7 AM ET · 46 active subscribers · Diamond Slate debut

The first PixelIQ-branded Diamond Slate. Five named pieces in a single mid-Michigan listing — and the era windows + backstamp tells for each. The Wishlist section ships with 6 PixelIQ-enriched watch-list items from the May 5 reader thread.

  • Headline find: Kellie's Blue Moon · Lansing · Cybis porcelain magnolia, Lladró Angel of Peace #6131, mint-green Hamilton Beach mixer
  • Diamond Slate: Nippon hand-painted · Fenton hobnail · Spode Blue Italian · Depression-era cobalt · Chateau Chambord (French ornamental)
  • Want Ads: 12 reader-submitted hunts across mid-Michigan
  • Wishlist watch-list: Rotary phone · Singer sewing machine · HAM radio · Butter churn · Cuckoo clock · Manual flip-top toaster
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Issue Nº 3 · "Wednesday's paper, Thursday's doors"

Wednesday May 13, 2026 · 7 AM ET · 28 active subscribers

The week the scout pipeline first ran end-to-end. Issue 3 covered the mid-Michigan corridor with full Classifieds by bureau and the first Diamond Slate proof-of-concept (single-find format — Diamond Slate expanded to five-find from Issue 4 forward).

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Issue Nº 2 · "The aggregator angle"

Wednesday May 6, 2026 · 7 AM ET · 14 active subscribers

The week the multi-source aggregation pitch landed. Issue 2 introduced the editorial frame — we're a publishing layer above every major listing site, not another marketplace. Reader response set the May 5 thread that became Issue 4's Wishlist.

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Issue Nº 1 · "A weekly paper for the hunt"

Wednesday April 29, 2026 · 7 AM ET · 7 founding subscribers

The launch issue. Mid-Michigan bureau opens. The first Wednesday paper went to seven founding readers — Rita's friends, the early waitlist signups, and the people Bots knew personally. Every section that ships in current issues was prototyped here: Classifieds, Want Ads, Editor's Note.

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