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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by ChrisPodlaski » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:07 PM UTC

elastic_church wrote: post #50

ChrisPodlaski wrote: post #41

Oort - the cloud, in space. We are building an orbital communications network and linux based satellite operating system that lets you program your small sat in widely used programming languages, and gives you access to unprecedented, low latency compute and storage on orbit, and enables uninterrupted connectivity to the ground.

yeah you're gonna have to define low latency here what are you doing differently to solve the predictable latency problem? having all the processing happening in the compute cluster so that there isn't enough back and forth to the ground to notice?

Yes!

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by lowglow » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:08 PM UTC

fudged71 wrote: post #37

lowglow wrote: 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.

Me too! You should come out to our next Hack Day on Sunday if you're in the bay area. We have a ton of hackers into bots, ai/ml, etc. https://www.facebook.com/events/103581416857634/

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by lowglow » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:09 PM UTC

conjectures wrote: post #47

lowglow wrote: 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. :)

What are bots in this context? What is this context? Couldn't figure out from your landing page.

Technically any agent, but our focus is on any bot that has some human interface - chat/voice.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by merqurio » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:12 PM UTC

pfraze wrote: post #44

https://beakerbrowser.com/ A peer-to-peer Web browser. We let users create and host unlimited sites from their own devices. We think the technology can support thick hostless applications, which eliminates data silos and makes every application forkable from the browser. No blockchains, just an improved variant of BitTorrent called Dat [1]. We've been quiet the last 2 months but our 0.7 release is coming up, and we'r…

Sound a great alternative the actual centralized model. Any guess if other browsers would be interested in adopting Dat ?

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by Grustaf » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:20 PM UTC

contingencies wrote: post #56

Grustaf wrote: 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.

Interesting area to work in. There's huge interest in renewables here in China and a great deal of windy Himalayan mountain peaks that have been covered with wind generators here in Yunnan province (far southwest China) in the recent past. Also solar and hydro is everywhere. Lots of e-vehicles too, everything from golf buggies to cop cars to buses to taxis to bicycles to cars to old-person mobiles to tractors. Also c…

We're actually in talks with a fellow Scandinavian that lives in Yunnan right now!

When I lived in Shaolin a long time ago I did spend some time exploring Yunnan, the mountains are amazing, some of the most stunning views I've ever seen. This was more than 15 years ago and there seemed to be very little interest in electrical vehicles or renewable energy, I'm happy to hear things have improved!

SkySails have been exploring pulling large ships with kites, but I don't think it's very practical for trucks, then it makes more sense to go via electricity. Apart from the impracticality, there are also pretty subtle reasons of efficiency. They did use kites to pull vehicles in Ancient China though!

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by pfraze » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:25 PM UTC

merqurio wrote: post #64

pfraze wrote: post #44

https://beakerbrowser.com/ A peer-to-peer Web browser. We let users create and host unlimited sites from their own devices. We think the technology can support thick hostless applications, which eliminates data silos and makes every application forkable from the browser. No blockchains, just an improved variant of BitTorrent called Dat [1]. We've been quiet the last 2 months but our 0.7 release is coming up, and we'r…

Sound a great alternative the actual centralized model. Any guess if other browsers would be interested in adopting Dat ?

Actually I think there is a good chance of that, if we can demonstrate interest. I know for a fact that Mozilla is looking for decentralization tech.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by alehul » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:34 PM UTC

Haul will be a city marketplace of local retailers' stock with on-demand delivery, offering an alternative to shipping.

The goal is to offer products more reliably and quickly than Amazon or individual companies' online stores while charging less than the user would've paid for shipping. Each city will have a separate marketplace with immediately deliverable inventory. The model largely prevents against counterfeits, enables delivery within an hour, and more.

We also have plans with some retailers to offer an alternative to lugging bags around after shopping in-store, via using "HaulHome" at checkout to have your purchase delivered home within a timeframe you specify.

Would love to receive input from the community here!

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by mars4rp » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 11:59 PM UTC

ryanx435 wrote: post #57

mars4rp wrote: post #33

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 reputatio…

so this is actually a relatively large market for adult themed material based on this idea and there are several different versions out there, each with its own focus. I think the biggest one is http://www.bearchive.com/~addventure/ which is a better version of the original addventure http://www.addventure.com/ there are other, non-adult, versions as well but they don't see as much traffic. *i just realized i definit…

it doesn't necessarly need to be adult themed. /r/WritingPrompts/ subreddit has more than 10.5 millions subscribers!

* sorry about that, do you want me to write to your boss ?:D

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by xetorthio » Wed, Apr 05, 2017, 12:01 AM UTC

Meekro wrote: post #42

xetorthio wrote: post #5

https://sherloq.io We detect and stop online hate speech, harassment and other kinds of cyberbulluying, allowing companies to have toxic free discussions and environments.

I tried your demo and it worked great! I tried saying similar things to see if it was just word matching, for example: "You should crawl under a rock and die." -> offensive "You should join a rock band, that music is to die for." -> fine My only complaint with the demo is that you keep trying to refresh the result as a I type, and I quickly overwhelm whatever rate limiting you have in place and get a "please wait bef…

That is good feedback! Thanks! We are still exploring selling ideas. We are currently integrating Sherloq with the coral project, which will allow companies like The Washington Post use our service. We are also exploring online games and integration with big social networks, where we can help the companies moderate content generated on their Facebook page, for example. Also we are trying to contact Clever, that will allow us to offer this service for schools. As I said, lots of possibilities. Currently trying to get as much feedback from as many users as we can.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by dilemma » Wed, Apr 05, 2017, 12:32 AM UTC

pfraze wrote: post #44

https://beakerbrowser.com/ A peer-to-peer Web browser. We let users create and host unlimited sites from their own devices. We think the technology can support thick hostless applications, which eliminates data silos and makes every application forkable from the browser. No blockchains, just an improved variant of BitTorrent called Dat [1]. We've been quiet the last 2 months but our 0.7 release is coming up, and we'r…

This is exciting. Let people host their own Instagram profile on their phone.