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Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by davehcker »

Shameless self-promotion here; but I think it meets your requirements.

Hexafarms (https://hexafarms.com/ )- an indoor farming startup which can match a throughput that will enable us to grow food in the urban pockets at an efficiecy between 10-200x (depending on what you're meauring).

The website is a bit flashy and not very detailed. Also it is only this month I'm gonna be working ~full time hours on it. Here's why it's radical:

* A empty single-floor 2000 sq. ft. space can produce ~200k KGs of produce. Hence also the idealization of distributed and small farms and not those 10-storey robot driven ones. * Possibility of growing 'crafted-produce', say low-sodium lettuce for diabetes, bitter and juicy lettuce for kids (apparently they like it), very high oil content mint plants so you get same amount of mint oil from half the weight. * All of this greatly affects (and positively) the current supply chain. * It's heavily data driven. And this is not just because it's cool. Think of it as openAI GPT, but for X produce.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by iameoghan »

davehcker wrote: post #21

Shameless self-promotion here; but I think it meets your requirements. Hexafarms ( https://hexafarms.com/ )- an indoor farming startup which can match a throughput that will enable us to grow food in the urban pockets at an efficiecy between 10-200x (depending on what you're meauring). The website is a bit flashy and not very detailed. Also it is only this month I'm gonna be working ~full time hours on it. Here's why…

That's exactly the kind of stuff that I'm into. I'm not an authority but that sounds hella radical.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by iameoghan »

mabil wrote: post #4

Semco [1] It is not a new company but they are still miles ahead when dealing with transparency, work-life-balance and many others well being attributes for its employees and future generation. I would love to see and know more radical companies in terms of methodoligies and personal evolution as examples as well, not only tech. [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_compan... edit: clarification

I remember seeing them before - thanks for reminding me about them.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by iameoghan »

eappleby wrote: post #16

A little on the nose, but check out RADiCAL ( https://getrad.co/ ). 3D Motion Capture from your phone. It's already pretty useful in the entertainment world, but once they bring down their rendering times, the possibilities are pretty exciting.

That's pretty cool - thanks for sharing.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by iameoghan »

axaxs wrote: post #12
tornato7 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's online-only, chatbot-driven, no sales associates in offices to visit. You just snap some pics on your phone and you're insured.

Personally, I find these companies dreadful. I tried it just to see and got flustered by the 5th question or so(renters). Typically, I just call a company, choose a coverage amount, and am done in all of 2 minutes. Wing, or Wing Alpha, is another that attempted this, to do number porting via chatbot texting back and forth. No thanks.

Out of curiosity would you classify yourself as a digital native or a non-native?

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by iameoghan »

replwoacause wrote: post #14
tornato7 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's online-only, chatbot-driven, no sales associates in offices to visit. You just snap some pics on your phone and you're insured.

My experience with them was really positive. Metromile is another good example of a company like this.

Oh wow - metromile sounds really interesting. Any others like this?

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by iameoghan »

milkytron wrote: post #6
karanke wrote: post #2

Some companies I'd put on the list: 1) Okta – Single Sign-On as a service 2) Snowflake – Cloud-native data warehouse as a service 3) Crowdstrike – Cloud-native security as a service

My company uses Okta now, and it's been the only SSO service I've used that's truly SSO. Every other SSO service I've used only worked for certain accounts, or only for first party company accounts, or for specific things. Okta is the SSO that actually does what SSO stands for, and I've been loving it because I don't have to think about it.

I'm a N00b - what makes this so special?

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by iameoghan »

i24543 wrote: post #7

BluWave-AI [1] applying ML to modernize power grids. Not flashy, but revolutionary behind the scenes work. [1] https://www.bluwave-ai.com/

What makes it revolutionary? Sounds amazing btw but I would already expected grids to be using ML for surge detection etc. Is it not the norm?

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by majewsky »

davehcker wrote: post #21

Shameless self-promotion here; but I think it meets your requirements. Hexafarms ( https://hexafarms.com/ )- an indoor farming startup which can match a throughput that will enable us to grow food in the urban pockets at an efficiecy between 10-200x (depending on what you're meauring). The website is a bit flashy and not very detailed. Also it is only this month I'm gonna be working ~full time hours on it. Here's why…

Link that works: https://hexafarms.com/

Do you have any images of how the setup would look? Also:

> A empty single-floor 2000 sq. ft. space can produce ~200k KGs of produce.

Per which unit of time?

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