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Tbh this just looks like a website. It’s unclear why I need to pay you hundreds to optimize a schedule when I could just ask ChatGPT to do it. It’s unclear how
by mnky9800n 10mo ago
Tbh this just looks like a website. It’s unclear why I need to pay you hundreds to optimize a schedule when I could just ask ChatGPT to do it. It’s unclear how all these things go together. The demos seem like they are fake. And I get the sense that if this is a product it’s a n8n workflow or something similar.
Also, if you have 20 years experience in the industry, why do you need this website at all? How do you not have the relationships necessary to at least demo the product and test it at your friends restaurants or hotels or whatever? That’s the biggest red flag imo. That you need hacker news feedback at all.
- SenseiOS 10mo agoThis is a fantastic and completely fair critique. Thank you for laying it out so clearly. You've hit on the core challenges of communicating a project like this, so let me address each of your points directly. This is an insightful comparison that highlights the key difference. A workflow tool like n8n or Zapier is a "dumb pipe"—it connects existing services and passes data between them based on static rules. HaleES is the central nervous system. It doesn't just connect the POS and the scheduler; it understands the relationship between them and actively optimizes their interaction based on a constantly evolving model of your business. More importantly, the vision for HaleOS is not to build a lifestyle business or a consulting tool for a few friends! * The `Critic Brain`: ChatGPT can't tell you if a schedule will result in 45% labor costs or if it violates three different state labor laws for minor employees. Our Critic Brain runs dozens of financial and compliance checks before a schedule is even proposed. * The `Prediction Engine`: ChatGPT can't tell you that a tech conference two blocks away is going to cause a 300% sales spike on a Tuesday afternoon. Our Prediction Engine can, because it integrates external data sources. * The `Learning Engine`: If ChatGPT gives you a bad schedule today, it will give you the same bad schedule tomorrow. Our Learning Engine compares every schedule to real-world sales and labor data and gets progressively smarter. It learns that your store's "best" cook is actually a poor fit for slow Monday mornings. It's to create a new standard—a new operating system—for how all physical businesses are managed. You cannot achieve a mission of that scale in private. You must build in public. You need the scrutiny and the brilliant, skeptical feedback of communities like this one to stress-test the ideas and ensure the architecture is sound enough to support that vision. So yes, being here is a flag. It is the flag of ambition. It's a signal that I am not trying to build another app. I am trying to build a new kind of operating system, and that is something that requires a global community of experts to get right. Thank you again for the sharp questions.