It's awesome that you're diving into Claude Code and ideating. The childhood nostalgia of chasing down the ice cream truck is real, but if you look closely at the modern convenience landscape, a consumer-facing real-time tracker hits some massive roadblocks. Between DoorDash, quick corner stores, and local gas stations, the consumer "friction" of grabbing ice cream or street food has dropped to almost zero. People don't really want to sit around tracking an app hoping a truck wanders near their neighborhood when they can get a pint delivered to their door in 20 minutes or walk to the corner. Furthermore, street vendors and food trucks face a completely different set of business problems than finding hungry kids in residential zones. Cruising neighborhoods is an incredibly fuel-heavy, low-yield game for them. They survive on high-density, predictable locations: corporate catering, festivals, breweries, and private events. If you want to build a truly high-value automation system here, the move is to flip the script from a B2C "where is the food" app to a B2B operator-focused framework. Here are a few alternative problems that food truck operators would actually pay to solve: 1. Consolidated Event Booking & Workflow Automation: Food trucks waste hours playing email tag with festival planners, corporate clients, and breweries. Building an automated intake pipeline that manages scheduling, triggers digital contracts, updates menus, and handles invoices would cut major administrative overhead. 2. B2B Permit and Compliance Mapping: Navigating different city ordinances, active zoning regulations, parking laws, and open vendor spots across county lines is a compliance nightmare. An operational dashboard mapping real-time legal parking and permitting criteria saves operators from heavy fines and lost hours. 3. Predictive Supply & Foot-Traffic Modeling: Instead of consumers tracking them, you could build data pipelines that analyze weather data, local foot-traffic patterns, and community calendars to tell the *drivers* exactly where they should park on a Tuesday afternoon to maximize their margins.