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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by arielcamus »

Microverse.

We are launching a tuition-free and remote software engineering program based on ccollaborative and project-based learning.

Our mission is to train 1 million software engineers by 2030.

Not everyone can afford to spend thousands of dollars or was born in the right place to get access to a college degree.

On the other hand, most people don't have the superhuman willpower to learn alone from home watching videos online for 8 hours a day during a year.

We use Collaborative Learning (e.g. Pair programming between students) to create a learning experience that is as supportive (e.g. Mutual accountability) as a traditional learning experience (e.g. College or bootcamp) and as scalable and affordable as online learning platforms (e.g. Coursera, Udacity).

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by diggan »

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…

Oh, that's interesting that you've applied to YC. How would the business model look for beaker browser?

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by karthik248 »

xetorthio wrote: post #69
Meekro wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Disqus integration would work well for blogs and articles.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#104

Post by J-dawg »

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.

This is an awesome idea. I remember reading about kite-based propulsion systems for large ships a few years ago, do you see any overlap with that area?

How do you deal with the possibility of the kite breaking free of the tether, or breaking up in the air? I guess it could be quite dangerous if there's a populated area downwind.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by android521 »

arielcamus wrote: post #101

Microverse. We are launching a tuition-free and remote software engineering program based on ccollaborative and project-based learning. Our mission is to train 1 million software engineers by 2030. Not everyone can afford to spend thousands of dollars or was born in the right place to get access to a college degree. On the other hand, most people don't have the superhuman willpower to learn alone from home watching v…

great. Let's turn programming into a blue collar job. Increase supply so that we all get paid 7$ per hour.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by SmellTheGlove »

android521 wrote: post #105
arielcamus wrote: post #101

Microverse. We are launching a tuition-free and remote software engineering program based on ccollaborative and project-based learning. Our mission is to train 1 million software engineers by 2030. Not everyone can afford to spend thousands of dollars or was born in the right place to get access to a college degree. On the other hand, most people don't have the superhuman willpower to learn alone from home watching v…

great. Let's turn programming into a blue collar job. Increase supply so that we all get paid 7$ per hour.

That's short-sighted. Eventually, things that are highly skilled become less so, and eventually integrated into the baseline running of society. At some point in history, the fact that you can read and write would be a big fucking deal, but it isn't today. At some point in the future, making the machines do things will be in everyone's skillset to some degree. This just seems like a step in that direction.

To use an example, this sort of thing has about as much impact to data engineering as someone coming to the table with Excel skills does - they both generate some lines of code to work with data, but we're not working on the same level of issues. Doesn't mean I don't want to raise the floor, though, that has value to the whole organization.

EDIT: To be clear, I'd never heard of Microverse until 10 minutes ago. I have nothing to do with them, but I think it's a cool idea.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#107

Post by dankai »

dankai wrote: post #9

https://plan.university - plan.uni A free course schedule planner for college students, platform to connect with people within classes and soon the way graduates will find the job they are uniquely qualified for. Write me at kaiser@plan.university if you think your college/university would need plan.uni as well :)

If some of our competitors (like the ones who visited us already) read this, reach out to us! It'd probably make sense for us to join forces.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by laxk »

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…

You should crawl under a rock and d-i-e. -> fine.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by kleer001 »

kbyatnal wrote: post #78

https://www.60secondseveryday.com , the fastest way of keeping track of your memories. You get a phone call every night and record your 60-second response to the question "How did your day go?". From there, your response is archived into your private online journal and displayed alongside your photos, twitter posts, check-ins, etc from that day. Soon, you'll start getting Flashback emails (ex. "Here's what you were d…

It seems useful, but I can't really tell how. What problem are you solving and who has it?

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by kleer001 »

ParameterOne wrote: post #92

ParameterOne/Drop# We are going to send out a "one time use" Sim Card sticker to registered voters that you can stick on your regular sim card and Vote in the next election from your phone. Great for absentee ballots, disabled community, lazy people :-)

is it recyclable?
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