morsanu

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Ask HN: World news aggregator similar with TechMeme
2 points by morsanu 3y ago|3 comments
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by morsanu 4y ago
Arbitrary deadlines are only valuable as checkpoints to review work done and plan ahead. Using them as a timeframe to finish some tasks shows that you don't really understand estimates.
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by morsanu 5y ago
I'm browsing HN everyday, but only once. I look at the first page, open the titles that seem interesting in new tabs and that's it. Sometimes I go into the comments and read some opinions about some topic. I also read the good tit
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Digital Transformation: Automatic Counting in the Plastic Industry(countthings.com)
2 points by morsanu 5y ago|0 comments
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An Australian Hatchery Uses Automation to Count Crayfish(countthings.com)
2 points by morsanu 5y ago|0 comments
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by morsanu 5y ago
Of course we are trying to promote our business, writing some case studies is one way to do it. But I shared this here not because I thought we will get clients from HN (probably we will be getting some competition instead) but because I th
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by morsanu 5y ago
We iterated through different ideas and numbers. It's not an easy task, I can tell you that. We also try to have a good variety of choices: enterprise license, yearly, monthly or even packages of 24h. And we also have some free demo co
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by morsanu 5y ago
Our CEO is from the US.
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by morsanu 5y ago
It really depends on the city and the type of business. Bucharest wages are higher. Btw, we are not an outsourcing company. Everything is done in Romania: development, sales, management.
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by morsanu 5y ago
If you have the skills, you should definitely try it. We have a full team working on this for about 7 years. Constant improvements to our algorithms, new challenges, new technologies. A ton of other functionalities besides counting (e.g. fo
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by morsanu 5y ago
I'm working on this from Romania. Everything is ok.
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by morsanu 5y ago
Thanks for the idea. Getting the app in front of companies that need it is one of our challenges.
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by morsanu 5y ago
No, it's actually a pretty good question. We are a custom ML & computer vision software company and about 7 years ago we got several requests in a short time period for counting items in images. We thought it was a great idea for a
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by morsanu 5y ago
We are working on this product in-house for 7 years now. We are an internal startup from a company that does custom computer vision and ML software. No mturk, no tricks, a lot of work in ML and in UX as it is not a very straightforward task
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by morsanu 5y ago
Besides the cost cutting, keep in mind that the employees that don't have to manually count are not getting fired. They are providing more and better client services.
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by morsanu 5y ago
After you complete the challenge, I'll give you the correct answer. Hint: not that many.
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by morsanu 5y ago
For most of our clients, we get to 100% accuracy. For some more difficult scenarios, a lower accuracy is ok for estimations (e.g. estimating the crop in agriculture). It's also super easy to correct mistakes or to add items that are no
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by morsanu 5y ago
Yes, we should be able to count them if they are visible in the picture. Please email our support with a couple of sample images. We are also doing classification for some of our templates/clients.
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by morsanu 5y ago
Our app is mostly targeted to businesses. Besides counting, we also have a ton of other features (e.g. forms, reports, integrations, etc).
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by morsanu 5y ago
It really depends how much time they are losing while manually counting. For most, the price is not high, the employees doing the counting can now focus on other more valuable tasks. We also have pack of 24hour licenses that they can activ
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by morsanu 5y ago
You are totally right. We usually work with businesses that have a counting need and we create a new template for their use case.
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by morsanu 5y ago
Hi, there! I'm one of the project managers at CountThings, I'll try to respond to comments here but I guess you can AMA.
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A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls(countthings.com)
586 points by morsanu 5y ago|225 comments
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We use AI to help the vaccination process(countthingsqanda.com)
2 points by morsanu 6y ago|1 comments
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Count Covid19 vaccine vials from images in seconds with your mobile(countthingsqanda.com)
3 points by morsanu 6y ago|0 comments