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ssimoni

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About ssimoni

founder/ceo of bbot (acq by doordash)

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    Comment #46991410

    Seems like we should form major open source repos and have one with ai maintainers and the other with human maintainers and see which one is better.

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    Comment #41296747

    Hilarious. The article tries to go even one step further past the loss of hype, by making an additional argument that ai might not be in a hype cycle at all. Meaning they conjectur…

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    Comment #28754136

    I think the reason to not follow successful people online is that they did not get successful by following successful people online. Meaning - they have a big online presence post-…

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    Comment #24551762

    I feel your pain. The flat cents make small online transactions hard to do. If you can add a 30 cent transaction cost at checkout then you are just paying 2.9 percent on the cart p…

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    Comment #20585251

    Bbot | Application developer (js and python) | Remote or Pittsburgh Bbot makes smart ordering. It's a no app, no sign up way to order at restaurants. We help restaurants and hotel …

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    Comment #20083130

    Will this work with stripe elements not just stripe checkout? I'd like to upsell my connect accounts this feature.

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    Comment #19404514

    You should be close to your customers. My cofounders and I coded most of the MVP in the bay because we all happened to be living there, but then we started going to tradeshows and …

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    Comment #19196854

    This is somewhat relevant if you are interested in underactuated robots in production. One of our customers, Tokyo Kitty [1], a nightclub in Cincinnati uses two underactuated robot…

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    Comment #16668838

    Bbot (bbot.menu) - food and drink delivery system for bars and restaurants. 20% facebook, 20% email, 60% anonymous ordering only (most prefer to not get an account to drink a beer …

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    Comment #15531529

    Small nit from article - "You don’t build a nuclear power plant (or even a dam) without a plan for what to do if it goes critical." Reactors going critical is a good thing. From wi…

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    Comment #14250393

    It is very nice to have first mover advantage. Many web and mobile application companies today do not have first mover advantage. This was a good talk to listen to if you have quie…

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    Comment #13808964

    This soon-to-be Vegas robot looks cool! In the meantime, if you want to try a robot server in San Francisco, my friends and I installed one in Folsom Street Foundry in SOMA. The ba…