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Hey HN. Coding sucks! serious Im mediocre at best but I love data science and AI. So we built Canopi for coding newbs like me. What makes Canopi awesome is you

Hey HN. Coding sucks! serious Im mediocre at best but I love data science and AI. So we built Canopi for coding newbs like me. What makes Canopi awesome is you can share your data with people and they can use it in their projects but cant steal it. We're early days but the roadmap is awesome. Imagine safely sharing realtime data sources, connecting public data. Building your own AI and deploying to production. AI is no longer developer driven, its now democratised and by boosting diversity its now less biased. Please have a play with the frontend proto, share your feedback and watch this space!

tastroder 6y ago
Hey, nah, coding is fine. But since you ask for feedback: I tried to visit your submission on mobile, please link to something that doesn't ask me to create an account and instead shows me what I'm getting for that. Without that I usually assume I'm getting weekly marketing emails. Since you make some bold claims in your pitch: do you have technical resources that address bias and data extraction from deployed models in your application?
- adamFeral 6y ago
  Hi Tasroder. Approximately 70% of the world use some form of visual thinking. However if like me, a person is a strong visual thinker and mentally atypical, coding can be quite challenging. With Canopi, I've attempted to rethink how we work with data. Conceptualising it so it is not longer tabular or nested KVP. I'm sorry you assume I will market to you. I'm not intending to. I didn't think they were bold claims. 'Technical resources that address bias and data extraction' is quite vague. Can you please ask your question more explicitly? Thank you.
  - tastroder 6y ago
    Hi, sure, I didn't want to dismiss the idea itself. The no code approah just isn't for everyone I guess. Most major cloud providers have some level of abstraction for ML modelling these days which is why I was curious to check yours out as well. Hence please take my main point to be the plea for something that shows what your platform is doing without exposing data. :-) As for the other questions, your pitch text made claims like "you can share your data with people and they can use it in their projects but cant steal it." as well as, I assume, the mere existence of these tools having some impact on bias. Both data extraction from models deployed in the wild and model/data bias have been topics of discussion in ML research over the past few years and I was wondering if your tooling did anything specific to tackle those aspects. PS: Are the icons like "view_quilt" on your home page huge? On mobile chrome I could read halfway down the page before those loaded in and was a bit confused about the placeholder text. PPS: On your homepage in a real browser now (Firefox on Linux, recentish version), you somehow managed to disable text selection there.
    - adamFeral 6y ago
      dude just check out https://app.canopi.app https://app.canopi.app
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tastroder 6y ago

Hey, nah, coding is fine. But since you ask for feedback: I tried to visit your submission on mobile, please link to something that doesn't ask me to create an account and instead shows me what I'm getting for that. Without that I usually assume I'm getting weekly marketing emails. Since you make some bold claims in your pitch: do you have technical resources that address bias and data extraction from deployed models in your application?

adamFeral 6y ago
Hi Tasroder. Approximately 70% of the world use some form of visual thinking. However if like me, a person is a strong visual thinker and mentally atypical, coding can be quite challenging. With Canopi, I've attempted to rethink how we work with data. Conceptualising it so it is not longer tabular or nested KVP. I'm sorry you assume I will market to you. I'm not intending to. I didn't think they were bold claims. 'Technical resources that address bias and data extraction' is quite vague. Can you please ask your question more explicitly? Thank you.
- tastroder 6y ago
  Hi, sure, I didn't want to dismiss the idea itself. The no code approah just isn't for everyone I guess. Most major cloud providers have some level of abstraction for ML modelling these days which is why I was curious to check yours out as well. Hence please take my main point to be the plea for something that shows what your platform is doing without exposing data. :-) As for the other questions, your pitch text made claims like "you can share your data with people and they can use it in their projects but cant steal it." as well as, I assume, the mere existence of these tools having some impact on bias. Both data extraction from models deployed in the wild and model/data bias have been topics of discussion in ML research over the past few years and I was wondering if your tooling did anything specific to tackle those aspects. PS: Are the icons like "view_quilt" on your home page huge? On mobile chrome I could read halfway down the page before those loaded in and was a bit confused about the placeholder text. PPS: On your homepage in a real browser now (Firefox on Linux, recentish version), you somehow managed to disable text selection there.
  - adamFeral 6y ago
    dude just check out https://app.canopi.app https://app.canopi.app
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