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Re: Startup School 2017 First Lecture

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Post by bootload »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #36
bootload wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" it would be interesting to have a diff tool for videos" videoA -> transcriptionA | V videoB -> transcriptionB | V diff

That seems too granular, as an additional 'uh' or 'and' would cause a sentence to be seen as different. It might work well if you can first pair up the similar sentences from A and B, using word-level edit distance, or mapping to a lower-dimensional space using sentence embedding?

"seems too granular,"

Probably right. I used the term diff as a concept not implementation.

Re: Startup School 2017 First Lecture

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Post by throwathrowaway »

dang wrote: post #5

Something else that's just out is the list of future speakers: https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-online-first-lec... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14045559 )

The startup school's About page says there are office hours every week

> Class Office Hours will also be held each week to give live advice and feedback to the class.

but that schedule only has office hours planned for weeks 2, 5 and 9. Is one an update of the other? Are there any office hours the first week?

Re: Startup School 2017 First Lecture

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Post by Baeocystin »

nhorob67 wrote: post #15
BukhariH wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't mind me asking. What's your business?

Farm accounting software. Boring to most, exciting to me! Just maybe that's a key

Now if you could expand that to John Deere hacking software...

Re: Startup School 2017 First Lecture

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Post by jaoued »

xiaoma wrote: post #35

I was wondering what the acceptance rates were for this MOOC. I understand it's difficult to deal with large numbers of applicants and that it's just not feasible to give every single applicant personalized feedback. From the other side, I've been working on my goal for much of the past year and a half if I include collaboration attempts with offline businesses in my market that ended with job offers but no collab. I…

We've applied along with 50k applicants (http://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-online-registrati...) and we are in this batch along with 3000 other startups coming from all corners of the world (startup founder track).

In our case, we've built MyAppConverter about three years ago, starting from native iOS to native Android code conversion and now building an online mobile application porting platform. We've applied and we feel so privileged to have been selected because it costs us nothing except our time we have to put in (watching lectures, online group sessions, tutor/advisor sessions and assignments). We do not have to move to SV (as yet) and yet benefit from shared valuable experiences amongst YC fellows as well as from other entrepreneurs.

Re: Startup School 2017 First Lecture

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Post by tim333 »

ChajusSaib wrote: post #8
inputcoffee wrote: post #2

This is an interesting talk, but it is substantially similar to the previous one that was already out there. Which makes me think: it would be interesting to have a diff tool for videos, but it diffs a representation of the content not specific video frames. Customers might include all the students of Udacity, Coursera, EdX and Startupschool.

Could you link the other one, thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYhVcO4WgI

transcript: https://genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-start...

Re: Startup School 2017 First Lecture

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Post by elmar »

jaoued wrote: post #44
xiaoma wrote: post #35

I was wondering what the acceptance rates were for this MOOC. I understand it's difficult to deal with large numbers of applicants and that it's just not feasible to give every single applicant personalized feedback. From the other side, I've been working on my goal for much of the past year and a half if I include collaboration attempts with offline businesses in my market that ended with job offers but no collab. I…

We've applied along with 50k applicants ( http://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-online-registrati... ) and we are in this batch along with 3000 other startups coming from all corners of the world (startup founder track). In our case, we've built MyAppConverter about three years ago, starting from native iOS to native Android code conversion and now building an online mobile application porting platform. We've ap…

That is a 6% acceptance rate, I had no idea so many people apply!

Re: Startup School 2017 First Lecture

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Post by mattfrommars »

nhorob67 wrote: post #19
dawie wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a big fan of "lifestyle" businesses. Why are your margins so low, if you are the only employee?

I've had a consultancy do all the development so far. They are good, but not cheap. Hoping to bring that in-house later this year.

Want to build an outsource agency?

Re: Startup School 2017 First Lecture

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Post by Void_ »

jaoued wrote: post #44
xiaoma wrote: post #35

I was wondering what the acceptance rates were for this MOOC. I understand it's difficult to deal with large numbers of applicants and that it's just not feasible to give every single applicant personalized feedback. From the other side, I've been working on my goal for much of the past year and a half if I include collaboration attempts with offline businesses in my market that ended with job offers but no collab. I…

We've applied along with 50k applicants ( http://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-online-registrati... ) and we are in this batch along with 3000 other startups coming from all corners of the world (startup founder track). In our case, we've built MyAppConverter about three years ago, starting from native iOS to native Android code conversion and now building an online mobile application porting platform. We've ap…

Hey man, we're in the same group (62), can't wait to learn more about your business!

At first I thought everybody got in, but now I see I was pretty damn lucky with my product Median (www.median.tech), since I'm solo.

This MOOC is just the best, I didn't expect there would be so much community around it. As a solo founder, I'm very grateful be in a group with other founders from all around the world.

Re: Startup School 2017 First Lecture

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Post by jaoued »

Void_ wrote: post #48
jaoued wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've applied along with 50k applicants ( http://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-online-registrati... ) and we are in this batch along with 3000 other startups coming from all corners of the world (startup founder track). In our case, we've built MyAppConverter about three years ago, starting from native iOS to native Android code conversion and now building an online mobile application porting platform. We've ap…

Hey man, we're in the same group (62), can't wait to learn more about your business! At first I thought everybody got in, but now I see I was pretty damn lucky with my product Median (www.median.tech), since I'm solo. This MOOC is just the best, I didn't expect there would be so much community around it. As a solo founder, I'm very grateful be in a group with other founders from all around the world.

That's really cool. We've built the first online mobile application porting platform.

We currently offer two options: Self-Service Option (99$ USD) (recommended if you have in-house Android experts): You use our UI porting platform to port your entire iOS UI elements (storyboard and xib) to native Android UI (xml). Before you purchase this, you get to view it online (we use appetize.io to let our customer to view online the Android UI output before purchasing the Android source code). We offer this at 99$ USD per porting session. The output you pay for is a full Android UI source which you can start from (to edit in Android Studio) to complete manually the app and get the final Android application. That means you can hire any expert Android developer to do this manual work, yet still saving you some time, effort and money. If you are looking at this option, it is a self-service. Just login to myappconverter.com and upload your iOS storyboard project and follow the instructions. We do offer 15 days free support on our UI output products. Fully Managed Porting Service Option (Starting from 3000$ USD) (recommended if you don't have any Android experts): You really want to use our accredited experts engineering team at MyAppConverter to take the UI Android and complete the work to deliver you a full working Android application. In this case, once your upload your entire iOS project, you ask us for a free/no-obligation quote. For that quoted price, you will get a full working native Android app and its Android source code. The way we work is that you will be receiving a series of apks for you to test and you report all issues/bugs through our bug tracking portal; you will typically get the first UI based apk, then the next one will be including some logics and more functionalities, until the final apk represents the fully working & tested app on Android. On average, the porting timeline is around 3 to 5 weeks. We tend not to take porting projects in excess of 5 weeks work to minimise customer delivery risks. This is the full turnkey option and yet fast, efficient & price competitive. We have both our in house resources also a handful carefully selected and accredited freelancers. Let me know if you need further information.

The UI porting is around storyboard and xib . We port this instantly with our porting tool to native android.

We are three co-founders based out of London and Casablanca.

Median looks really cool.

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