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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ecesena »

graystevens wrote: post #32
admiralEyebrows wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm interested! How did the proof of concept turn out? Any chance you could make to order...

I personally really liked how the PoC went – I plan on doing a full write up in the next couple of days, which will outline what I did, start to finish. Here is an example of the sticker/skin and the finish. Excuse the slightly 'off' cut on the corner – I'm looking to produce a highly accurate template for each of the various models. https://imgur.com/FfQ3XQs

If I can give you a recommendation, set up a waitlist before you publish your blog post.

We just went through this process with Solo (mentioned in another comment): blogging, waitlist, kickstarter. HN has been great, we hit the front page four times. KS however is penalized on HN, so building a waitlist will be increadibly useful.

Best of luck!

edit: grammar

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

ai_ia wrote: post #40

I am working on Primer. Basically a bot that makes it much easier to learn "difficult things" on your own. Here is a screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/E5Kw54P The screenshot has changed a lot by now though. I have been working on this, alone, for last almost two year. I have iterated more than 15 times. One time, I was trying to do non-linear twine[0] based interface. Was pretty complicated. Right now, this is the ver…

It looks good. I noticed further down it does try to understand your answer, and detects a wrong answer which is impressive.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by solarkraft »

ankit219 wrote: post #53

I am working on Blubyn - an AI powered travel agent helping users book flights and hotels quickly by personalizing results. Here is the link: http://onelink.to/blubyn (app only - available on both iOS and Android) Being an avid traveler, it has always bothered me that travel experience has remained almost the same over the years. We scout 50 websites to figure out where to go and what to do, where results/posts are s…

Could you elaborate on the "AI" part of it?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by tnolet »

I’m working on https://checklyhq.com, an API monitoring and site transaction monitoring SaaS. The coolest thing about it is discovering the many subtleties in the product offerings in the pretty huge and abundant monitoring market and how customers value them.

The technical stuff is cool too, and actually much trickier than many would expect, but I find customer development and support much more rewarding as I’m signing up the first customers.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ai_ia »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #73
ai_ia wrote: post #40

I am working on Primer. Basically a bot that makes it much easier to learn "difficult things" on your own. Here is a screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/E5Kw54P The screenshot has changed a lot by now though. I have been working on this, alone, for last almost two year. I have iterated more than 15 times. One time, I was trying to do non-linear twine[0] based interface. Was pretty complicated. Right now, this is the ver…

It looks good. I noticed further down it does try to understand your answer, and detects a wrong answer which is impressive.

Thanks Man. Well, it detects wrong / right answer when you use predefined responses but when you use text reply then it just states what is correct, so that you can figure out where you went wrong.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by bwb »

I am working on Execution.com - We are showing businesses what meetings cost in terms of time/money at their organization, as well as a lot of analytics to help them improve meeting culture. And, we are trying to see what the best companies are doing so that we can give companies the tools to improve the effectiveness of meetings.

https://execution.com/free-meeting-stats/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ankit219 »

solarkraft wrote: post #74
ankit219 wrote: post #53

I am working on Blubyn - an AI powered travel agent helping users book flights and hotels quickly by personalizing results. Here is the link: http://onelink.to/blubyn (app only - available on both iOS and Android) Being an avid traveler, it has always bothered me that travel experience has remained almost the same over the years. We scout 50 websites to figure out where to go and what to do, where results/posts are s…

Could you elaborate on the "AI" part of it?

Sorry, saw this late.

There are a few AI components here:

1. ML based recommendation engine to suggest flights, hotels, activities/experiences, and even destinations based on profile (social data, interaction data, and booking data) and clusters based on certain components. (Currently works well for flights at 85% accuracy - top five results, for hotels, we are at 52% in top 10 results)

2/ Voice + NLP engine to handle more intuitive queries. One aspect of travel inspiration is that when people google, they dont ask the question they have. Like for a question like 'Where can I go for a beach trip next weekend' becomes a search query of 'Top beaches in US' or 'Top 10 exotic beaches'.

3/ 80% of the trip planning effort is spent on just finding the relevant info cos it is way too scattered. There is a way it can be made more concentrated, when we scrape more data from existing blogs, and create a graph network of information to serve a more relevant and contextual answer to the queries. Initial thoughts only on this, since we are still solving this. (Example would be, let's say you are planning a trip to Thailand, the product should be able to give contextual info keeping your preferences in mind. If you are an adventure lover, focus would only be on those activities, if you like a secluded beach to relax, you will be given those answers.)

3rd is the most complex and requires a lot more effort. This is not the same as itinerary building (cos that is the part of experience). We just want to take away the frustrating bits away from the planning part.

Apart from these, the usual features, like fare prediction, flight delay prediction, deals info, are also on the roadmap.

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