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Ask HN: How does the software you build make the world a better place?

14 points by KDJohnBrown 6y ago

giantg2 6y ago
People can retire, go to college, or invest for some other goal. The company is involved in community service and charity to a degree. My contribution is indirect since I don't work on the investment systems themselves.
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giardini 6y ago
It makes money for me and I can do what I want with that.
- KDJohnBrown 6y ago
  Cash rules everything around me.
danbolt 6y ago
People are entertained a little more and I'm not spending programmer hours on something like a robocall.
mars4rp 6y ago
I work on a web app that let people file their CA taxes for free. it only has 200K users per year. but hey that is a couple millions intuit doesn't get.
- MH15 6y ago
  How are you funded? Also, thank you for doing something to hurt Intuit.
  - mars4rp 6y ago
    I work for CA government :)
logicslave 6y ago
People are delighted by the more accurate ads!
- KDJohnBrown 6y ago
  “The best minds of my generation are busy thinking about how to make people click on banner ads.” — Jeff Hammerbacher
  - giardini 6y ago
    “The formerly best minds of my generation are busy thinking about how to make people click on banner ads.” FTFY
Jugurtha 6y ago
We're a tiny one-stop boutique specialized in machine learning. Our clients are exclusively large organizations because only they can afford our services. Recently, we started building our "MLOps" platform (https://iko.ai https://iko.ai) to reduce the overhead of doing machine learning and the proverbial technical debt that makes makes ML projects so likely to fail and so expensive. This will hopefully lower the barrier to entry as people will be able to use this to deliver value without being in large organizations. I have been asked time and time again by people I know personally who have small companies how they could hire us to use machine learning, and I was embarrassed time and time again to make them understand they couldn't afford it. There are many ways to "democratize" the field. Some publish books and courses, others create libraries and frameworks, and we made a system to lower the operational hurdles.
- KDJohnBrown 6y ago
  So you are making the world a better place by providing high end analysis of data to large corporations?
  - Jugurtha 6y ago
    My comment was more than the first two sentences you are referring to. Here it is again. I wrote: >Recently, we started building our "MLOps" platform (https://iko.ai https://iko.ai) to reduce the overhead of doing machine learning and the proverbial technical debt that makes makes ML projects so likely to fail and so expensive. This will hopefully lower the barrier to entry as people will be able to use this to deliver value without being in large organizations. >I have been asked time and time again by people I know personally who have small companies how they could hire us to use machine learning, and I was embarrassed time and time again to make them understand they couldn't afford it. >There are many ways to "democratize" the field. Some publish books and courses, others create libraries and frameworks, and we made a system to lower the operational hurdles. My point was that the usual hurdles of a machine learning project and the inefficiencies made it almost exclusive to large organizations that could afford it, and we're solving that by building a platform that eliminates these hurdles to make it possible even for small companies and individuals to benefit from and use machine learning without hiring expensive teams or consulting companies such as ours. This dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and the "activation energy".
CoffeePython 6y ago
It makes learning vim fun[0] and it gives an open-source creator $250/mo[1]. Also it helps me out by giving me extra income that has helped pay down debt. [0] https://www.vim.so https://www.vim.so [1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/#gold-sponsors https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/#gold-sponsors
xueyongg 6y ago
https://resubae.kinobi.asia https://resubae.kinobi.asia In Kinobi.asia, We create a service where users can create their own CVs. We handle the formatting, so that you can focus on your content. Our vision is to empower the individuals in SEA region to land into jobs of their dream. While the service is referral code protected, do chat me up if you love to check it out and use it!

14 points by KDJohnBrown 6y ago

People can retire, go to college, or invest for some other goal. The company is involved in community service and charity to a degree. My contribution is indirect since I don't work on the investment systems themselves.

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giardini 6y ago

It makes money for me and I can do what I want with that.

KDJohnBrown 6y ago
Cash rules everything around me.

danbolt 6y ago

People are entertained a little more and I'm not spending programmer hours on something like a robocall.

mars4rp 6y ago

I work on a web app that let people file their CA taxes for free. it only has 200K users per year. but hey that is a couple millions intuit doesn't get.

MH15 6y ago
How are you funded? Also, thank you for doing something to hurt Intuit.
- mars4rp 6y ago
  I work for CA government :)

logicslave 6y ago

People are delighted by the more accurate ads!

KDJohnBrown 6y ago
“The best minds of my generation are busy thinking about how to make people click on banner ads.” — Jeff Hammerbacher
- giardini 6y ago
  “The formerly best minds of my generation are busy thinking about how to make people click on banner ads.” FTFY

Jugurtha 6y ago

We're a tiny one-stop boutique specialized in machine learning. Our clients are exclusively large organizations because only they can afford our services. Recently, we started building our "MLOps" platform (https://iko.ai https://iko.ai) to reduce the overhead of doing machine learning and the proverbial technical debt that makes makes ML projects so likely to fail and so expensive. This will hopefully lower the barrier to entry as people will be able to use this to deliver value without being in large organizations. I have been asked time and time again by people I know personally who have small companies how they could hire us to use machine learning, and I was embarrassed time and time again to make them understand they couldn't afford it. There are many ways to "democratize" the field. Some publish books and courses, others create libraries and frameworks, and we made a system to lower the operational hurdles.

KDJohnBrown 6y ago
So you are making the world a better place by providing high end analysis of data to large corporations?
- Jugurtha 6y ago
  My comment was more than the first two sentences you are referring to. Here it is again. I wrote: >Recently, we started building our "MLOps" platform (https://iko.ai https://iko.ai) to reduce the overhead of doing machine learning and the proverbial technical debt that makes makes ML projects so likely to fail and so expensive. This will hopefully lower the barrier to entry as people will be able to use this to deliver value without being in large organizations. >I have been asked time and time again by people I know personally who have small companies how they could hire us to use machine learning, and I was embarrassed time and time again to make them understand they couldn't afford it. >There are many ways to "democratize" the field. Some publish books and courses, others create libraries and frameworks, and we made a system to lower the operational hurdles. My point was that the usual hurdles of a machine learning project and the inefficiencies made it almost exclusive to large organizations that could afford it, and we're solving that by building a platform that eliminates these hurdles to make it possible even for small companies and individuals to benefit from and use machine learning without hiring expensive teams or consulting companies such as ours. This dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and the "activation energy".

CoffeePython 6y ago

It makes learning vim fun[0] and it gives an open-source creator $250/mo[1]. Also it helps me out by giving me extra income that has helped pay down debt. [0] https://www.vim.so https://www.vim.so [1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/#gold-sponsors https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/#gold-sponsors

xueyongg 6y ago

https://resubae.kinobi.asia https://resubae.kinobi.asia In Kinobi.asia, We create a service where users can create their own CVs. We handle the formatting, so that you can focus on your content. Our vision is to empower the individuals in SEA region to land into jobs of their dream. While the service is referral code protected, do chat me up if you love to check it out and use it!