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Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
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Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
#42I don't know that we're looking for a co-founder at this point -- we have a team of three that should pretty well cover our needs. But we'd really love to find a good graphic artist for icons, layout, etc.
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Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
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Yes, but for transcriptions of hour-long material like podcasts, interviews, speeches, essays, long emails. So it would be more like castingwords.com but faster and cheaper because of speech recognition.
I'm working on speech stuff as well but geared towards telephony. Its a hard task.How far along are you?
You mean like Twilio or lavarockhq.com? I know it's hard but I consider that an advantage. But I'm still brainstorming, exploring existing solutions, and working on a very basic demo to see if it can be done with open-source software.
Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
#44I live in Southern New Hampshire (Nashua, NH), on the border with MA. Anyone in the area looking for a hand, or at the very least someone to talk to about their project?
I'd be happy to talk to you about my project.
I'm based out of Seattle, but with the magic of the internet, I don't think that would be a big problem.
Would you be available to talk on Skype sometime?
Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
#45Looking to do a startup, doesn't matter where ping me with details.
You should check out my company:
www.transactor.com
Also, take a look at my post about the type of person I'm looking for.
If you are interested, please feel free to shoot me an email and we can setup a time to talk.
-Scott
Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
#46I don't know that we're looking for a co-founder at this point -- we have a team of three that should pretty well cover our needs. But we'd really love to find a good graphic artist for icons, layout, etc.
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Ah, that's not actually our project -- that's an old(er) site of mine that I use for client work, etc. The front login never got completed.
The comment there was a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's for some old JS that once upon a time faded in / faded out a "coming soon". Bleah.
Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
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I'm working on speech stuff as well but geared towards telephony. Its a hard task.How far along are you?
You mean like Twilio or lavarockhq.com? I know it's hard but I consider that an advantage. But I'm still brainstorming, exploring existing solutions, and working on a very basic demo to see if it can be done with open-source software.
Not like either except for the speech component. Yours can be done using the speech open src sft but the accuracy will be bad unless you buy or make a good acoustic model. Very painful.
Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean like Twilio or lavarockhq.com? I know it's hard but I consider that an advantage. But I'm still brainstorming, exploring existing solutions, and working on a very basic demo to see if it can be done with open-source software.
Not like either except for the speech component. Yours can be done using the speech open src sft but the accuracy will be bad unless you buy or make a good acoustic model. Very painful.
Yes, but the acoustic model (or models if you account for male/female and different accents) can be improved with all the input that the service gets over time. The bad accuracy can be fixed by human intelligence using Amazon Mechanical Turk.
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Maybe, but I don't qualify for all points, especially number 6 -- I'm a terrible snob and will avoid the Windows platform whenever I can. Also, I don't see the need for Transactor Code Agent if you have good version control (e.g. git).
Okay, maybe I was wrong. I'm terrible at developer matchmaking :D As an unrelated point, what's the startup scene look like in Seattle? I'm looking to start-up and willing to relocate, but my wife hates San Fran, so unless I can find a SV suburb that's more midwestern (read: strip malls and yards) then I have to look elsewhere.
Seattle is not really Midwestern. I would say, if anything, it's more European. I'd say it's a nice place to live. My wife and I are both from WI and we like it here.
Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, maybe I was wrong. I'm terrible at developer matchmaking :D As an unrelated point, what's the startup scene look like in Seattle? I'm looking to start-up and willing to relocate, but my wife hates San Fran, so unless I can find a SV suburb that's more midwestern (read: strip malls and yards) then I have to look elsewhere.
Seattle is not really Midwestern. I would say, if anything, it's more European. I'd say it's a nice place to live. My wife and I are both from WI and we like it here.
Eh Midwestern was probably the wrong word to use. We're in Phoenix now, which is basically just urban sprawl. She dislikes SF because it seems too foreign compared to the thousands of strip malls and subdivisions we have here.