StephenSmith

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by StephenSmith 3y ago
We make cameras for home builders that help them manage their construction sites. Our primary selling point is our AI detection of subcontractors - so we focus more on software than our hardware. https://bedrockwireless.com
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
Subcontractors are businesses, if they're paying people to wander around on site, they have big problems. It's more about the fact that GCs struggle to get accurate schedules around when their subs will show up, the subs are in to
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
Anything that makes the GC more efficient is going to be a win for the future homeowner. This might get more problematic for remodels, but we primarily work with new home builds. The GC can often bill it down to the homeowner as antitheft,
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
You're not wrong. We have custom boards inside to handle the AI compute and power, but we mostly do assembly. If a software startup assembles a bunch of open source hardware together and packages it as a product, would you say they don
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
We're working on this solution. Most housing projects have a semi-permanent dumpster, but GC's often have problems with people dumping in their houses' dumpsters, causing them to pay for more refills on their dumpster, which
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
We make the whole camera system because we couldn't find anything on the market that allowed us to do the AI we wanted. The value for the customer is all in the AI tracking and security detection as well as the ability to just login l
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
We don't track port-o-potty use, just if they move. Vandalism is at an all time high on construction sites, tipping port-o-johns is a common teenage prank and the GC needs to know if and when this is happening on sites (and hopefully
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
It's less about tracking how long they're there and more about when they showed up. We do the former because we can, but the GC really wants to know if and when their subs are showing up without having to be on site 24/7 wai
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
We occasionally get the homeowner to buy our product to monitor their GC - the GC always hates this. This in-turn leads us to recommending that the GC (if they're the buyer [most common]) to never share it with the future homeowner as
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
I guess I would say that subcontractors are more like hourly workers (who are time tracked meticulously in almost all industries) - not salaried like software engineers, who would deserve the respect and absence of tracking.
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
We make a camera system for construction sites. Using computer vision, we can identify when and for how long subcontractors show up as well as notify our customers of unwanted behavior on site. https://bedrockwireless.com/
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
The long term strategies you suggest almost certainly are the long-term answer. But that's just it, those solutions may take years. San Francisco may not last that long.
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
From the maker of the truckla!
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
My school still made me take it in 2011... for a Mech-E.
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
Many will be surprised to hear they're based out of a small town in northern Minnesota! That Midwest/Canadian accent you get from a cheery digikey customer service rep is unmistakable! I've had wonderful luck with calling Dig
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
Could keep the units that aren't changing and only change the ones that are.
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
Does this mean third party apps like baconreader will break?
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
Very cool! Any advice for someone who would want to replicate this endeavor?
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
Cool, thanks for the response. Have you talked to a UI person about this? I wonder if it would be better to load it in chunks? The rolling text might be considered distracting. Though, I'm no expert.
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
This is fantastic. Really useful, but why do all of these AI tools have to roll out the text? Surely it's generating it fast enough that we could just be presented with the answer? I'm over this gimmick.
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by StephenSmith 4y ago
Elon is an investor in the company trying to kill Twitter
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by StephenSmith 4y ago
Having messed with 3D printers since before the iPhone came out, I can confidently say My MK3 is the best printer I've owned in terms of value. I can only imagine that they've improved upon this story with the MK4.
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by StephenSmith 4y ago
It clearly has four wheels. How is that still a bi-cycle?
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Ask HN: Is clickwrap really the best way for users to accept a service contract?
4 points by StephenSmith 4y ago|0 comments
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by StephenSmith 4y ago
https://www.healthcanal.com/nutrition/potato-diet
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by StephenSmith 4y ago
Does anyone know how this compares to something like the NVIDIA Jetson Nano? https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-...
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by StephenSmith 4y ago
Is there a version of this product that tells the site to block all cookies automatically? It seems this just answers whatever is easiest to keep the site running.
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by StephenSmith 4y ago
Ran them on fleet laptops. They broke. All. the. time.
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by StephenSmith 4y ago
Why does this not line up well with the linked data, I wonder?
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Ask HN: What Happens to an MFN, No Cap, No Discount Safe in Early Liquidity?
1 points by StephenSmith 4y ago|0 comments

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