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Thanks for the pointers. The pricing is free for now. In the future we’re guessing it will be a typical freemium pricing model. There is also a totally self-hosted version that peo…

I'd be happy to hear more about these use cases you have in mind, either here or over email.

It's a reasonable concern. Many apps we won't be able to handle at first can easily be handled by our approach with more work. For some capabilities, we will have ways of filling g…

Like Access, we do aim to make development much easier, and in-house tools are an obvious first market. However, there are a lot of aspects of Dry (involving access permission, dat…

You actually do not have to understand the software underneath. The point is for that to be invisible to the developer.

We'll probably be posting a technical whitepaper and/or more technically-oriented video to the website soon. I was the founder of SkyPhrase, a natural language processing startup t…

This isn't a snarky response, but a sincere question: how would you have titled the article or expressed our mission? It's difficult to come up with something that's clear and capt…

Yes, in a sense, all computing is AI. Alan Turing was explicit in his writings that he was trying to create machine intelligence and that he saw Turing Machines as a formalization …

To do some advanced customization of how an app looks would require some javascript, but if they are happy with the UI we provide by default, then they could build some nontrivial …

Our approach is very model-driven. Three differences/innovations with respect to that work are that 1. the models we use have a few additional elements that lead to a much wider ra…

But I understand your reaction. I personally love AI and started working on it during the "AI winter" when everyone told me it was career suicide. I've been to AI conference where …

Even if you are correct about doing it with rules and a constraint solver, rule-based systems and constraint solving systems are all AI methods. Constraint solving especially is st…

I agree that figuring out exactly what you want is a lot of work. Our platform only helps there in that it makes it faster to iterate through different guesses at what you might wa…

The idea is that in many cases how an edge case is handle is up to the person requesting the software. So unless you build an AI that can read minds there needs to be an easy way t…

Yes. We have an event language where you basically can say "IF X happens do Y".

Yes, any company that's serving a lot of web pages would be tempted to put ads on their pages. As the article and our website state, we are doing several things to preserve people'…

It's a good point. Our actual platform is all https. Our home page is just a static page. But you're right that it's bad optics for a platform intended to be privacy friendly to no…

Re AI, check out the thread where I explain how we don't use training models or conventional machine learning. We use very deterministic.

Every developer I know has a friend or family member who wants them to write some software for them. The friends and family think it will take a few hours, but it really takes us w…

So you wanted the headline to be more dry?