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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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http://kitex.tech We're building a new type of wind turbine that generates energy using significantly less material, making it much cheaper to install. We do this using huge fixed wing kites made of carbon fibre, and drone technology.

How is this different from GoogleX's project?

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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https://cowritestory.com

CoWriteStory is a platform that let users cooperate to develop a story collectively. Users can start a story with a paragraph or more and other users can continue the story line that they like. Users have the opportunity to expand their favorite branch of story or create a new branch with different story line. Writers can get feedback from users via voting and comment system and get reputation and badges for their contribution to the community.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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https://signalbox.ai/

An out of the box platform to make deep learning easy. It has a drag and drop interface, connectors for common databases and blueprints for common tasks.

SignalBox is being used for: Forex trading, Genome visualizations, customer segmentation, large recommendation systems, fraud detection, realtime anomaly detection, bot detection and geo-dataset market prediction.

As well as the general platform I'm getting some much larger customers onboard where we build out their entire data environment - HDP deployments alongside SignalBox instances work great.

We are profitable, have some great customers on board, and are growing rapidly - and most importantly making our customers happy! :) Please reach out if you would like to work together!

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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post #19

Corinthian Robotics - robots that do housework I'm building an inexpensive, autonomous robot that take cares of your laundry. While you're at work, it will wash your clothes, fold them, and put them away.

I'm throwing money at the screen but nothing is happening

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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http://www.askscip.com/ Priceline for Uber and Lyft. Location and price comparison for your ride within walking distance. Since transportation is usually a top 5 expense for most people, and more people give up their car for ridesharing services, saving 10% on your rides could save you hundreds of dollars every year.

How are you checking the prices? Via API ?

If so, I'd be concerned about getting banned by Uber/Lyft.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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post #26

RadBots ( http://radbots.com ) We build tools for bots. Monetization, Bot-to-bot communications, Persona temporal key/value store, and more fun stuff coming out. :)

I'm interested in everyone having their own personal bot, and a professional bot, and they talk with each other behind your back finding opportunities to collaborate without violating privacy or confidentiality as they are all sandboxed.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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post #11

http://kitex.tech We're building a new type of wind turbine that generates energy using significantly less material, making it much cheaper to install. We do this using huge fixed wing kites made of carbon fibre, and drone technology.

How is this different from GoogleX's project?

I'm glad you asked ;)! The short answer is that we are going to become the first company to succeed in putting two kites on one line, which is much more efficient but of course more complex to pull off. We will achieve this by iterating much faster, learning from the community and taking advantage of the explosion in drone technology.

Makani is a very cool project but we think we can improve on it further!

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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https://www.traccar.org/

The company is based around Traccar open source GPS tracking system. Providing SaaS and professional services to our customers. We develop everything from back-end to mobile apps.

Although we don't use any machine learning at the moment, GPS tracking is a great area for it. If we get funding, that can be one of the directions for future development.

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