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Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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Post by WorkerBee28474 »

m3kw9 wrote: post #239
pyrrhotech wrote: post #151

I've been building algorithmic trading models for the last 4+ years. After trading them successfully with my own capital for more than a year, I launched https://grizzlybulls.com as an alternative to the traditional hedge fund monetization path. Since launching in January 2022, we've significantly outperformed the market with lower volatility and reduced max drawdown: Model - Return - Max drawdown S&P 500 (benchmark)…

Real test is when you have a down market. Everyone one looks like a genius in a bull market

The parent comment says they launched in Jan 2022. Jan 2022 to Jan 2023 was a down market.

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Post by sdwr »

OisinMoran wrote: post #120

I've been working on a social link sharing site called lynmki that allows you to follow a subset of someone's interests rather than having to follow everything they post. E.g. Someone posts lovely examples of typography, and also about events on in their city but you live halfway across the globe so just want the typography. I'm focussing on smaller circles, avoiding "algorithmic" feeds (aware sorting by reverse chro…

I started on a similar link gatherer at http://sdwr.ca

#1 use right now is making looping clips from youtube videos, but I want it to function as a semi-shared way to organize bookmarks

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Post by bbor »

jawns wrote: post #75

You know how sometimes the gift you really want is cash or a gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts that you can open and admire? Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry,…

I mean... this is kinda... fraud... I guess not in the legal sense. Gift fraud. Christmas fraud!

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Post by smallmancontrov »

stoniejohnson wrote: post #156
digging wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like a very difficult social challenge though.

ding ding ding

Plausible deniability can often short-circuit bullshit rituals. White lies are social lubricant. Come on, this isn't very advanced grass-touching here. I don't know if it will work, but I like the idea and admire the attempt.

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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Post by bbor »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #151

I've been building algorithmic trading models for the last 4+ years. After trading them successfully with my own capital for more than a year, I launched https://grizzlybulls.com as an alternative to the traditional hedge fund monetization path. Since launching in January 2022, we've significantly outperformed the market with lower volatility and reduced max drawdown: Model - Return - Max drawdown S&P 500 (benchmark)…

Just popping in to say:

1. Love the name, not enough Pyrrhonists on hacker news these days! The OG.

2. Love the website, your design skills are killer. I hate that entire industry and even still my monkey brain went "oo I want to see the Euphoria index, sign up!"

3. This is kinda quintissential AI. Not to distract this thread from the valuable topic of non-trendy projects, but this is a great example of why we need to reclaim "AI" as a much more general term. I mean "algorithmic trading" could be a synonym for "human-like problem solving"...

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Post by abroun_beholder »

My own photogrammetry pipeline because I'm fascinated by the tech (automatically create 3d models from photos). There are also a huge number of commercial applications but I haven't addressed one well enough yet.

https://beholder.vision

So far I've built a first pass of the pipeline using C++/CUDA and used it to power a SaaS and desktop photogrammetry app (free for personal non-commercial use). Got some useful feedback from the initial release of the desktop app back in January and I'm hoping to spend some time iterating to improve further later in the year (currently contracting to generate some funds).

It's possible that some deep learning generative AI network will take over all 3d model generation from photos tasks in the future but I'm hoping/betting that a) classical techniques will give higher resolution, more accurate results for a while yet and b) even if deep learning matches in accuracy and resolution it will always be possible to get better efficiency for big chunks of the pipeline using classical techniques.

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Post by koolba »

westcort wrote: post #76
jawns wrote: post #75

You know how sometimes the gift you really want is cash or a gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts that you can open and admire? Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry,…

This is brilliant

Is it? It just seems wasteful and unnecessery. Even gifts cards are pretty stupid for anyone that has access to a credit card. It’s strictly worse than having the actual cash for all but the unbanked (including kids).

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Post by ozim »

rwieruch wrote: post #228

In one week we have our anniversary for CloudCamping - a property management software for campsites. It is targeted for the European market at the moment, mainly the german market, because there is not much digital infrastructure in this space yet. In a nutshell: campsite administrators can create and configure their campsite and enable guest to book a place online. [0] https://www.cloud-camping.com/

Not to be negative but reasons campsites don’t have it are going to be your problem.

1) it is additional hassle for them with no obvious upside as they most likely have their organic traffic

2) they are not that great business - even if - then they most likely don’t want a database that tax authorities could see that they are.

Both reasons seem like lots of those places wouldn’t pay for service. But feel free to prove me wrong by having great business.

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