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Among all these feel-good stories, how about one with a bit different ending? During my masters, I created a ML library that dealt with noise in dataset [1]. I
by shihab 3y ago
Among all these feel-good stories, how about one with a bit different ending?
During my masters, I created a ML library that dealt with noise in dataset [1]. I implemented bunch of papers, but unlike your usual research code, I spent a long time obsessing about it's API, performance, created documentation, CI- the whole shebang. But then, like avg research code, I moved on and promptly forgot about it.
One day about a year ago the cofounder of a very new, small startup working on something similar texted me about the project on linkedin. We chatted for a bit, but as a guy who thinks he's too cool for linkedin, I next logged in and saw his last message about wanting to collaborate about 3/4 months after the fact.
Well they raised $25 million dollars a few months ago :(
[1] https://github.com/Shihab-Shahriar/scikit-clean https://github.com/Shihab-Shahriar/scikit-clean
- 93po 3y agoif it makes you feel better, it's really common to have "almost" moments like this in life. i had a project circa 2007 that was very successful and working great and making decent money ($300/month, which was a lot for me). i was a young stupid fresh college kid and blew it off to do other stuff. several years later someone started the same premise but stuck with it and now surely makes a million+ per year off it. (i dont want to be too specific but it was a website to help people make purchasing decisions for a specific thing in an interactive way and made tons off referral links)
- mpeg 3y agoIf it makes you feel any better, I got contacted like a decade ago by these two super friendly guys, who wanted some advice on how to handle infosec/devops in their fast growing startup I happened to be travelling to San Jose as I had just started working in a company based there, and they were based in the YC offices in Mountain View so they invited me to come over for drinks at this nearby bar. They were very casual about it so I took it to mean they were there with other people, so I showed up slightly later (as they said "we'll be there from 4pm") and it was just the two of them waiting for me. We had a couple drinks and I basically talked myself out of a job by emphasising that I had just started a job and it would be awkward to leave it, plus they didn't really need me and they were doing just fine. Said "let's keep in touch" but, you know, life got in the way and didn't really. Their startup was valued at $5b on their last raise :)