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It's a constraint solver. You can find the community version at https://github.com/TimefoldAI/timefold-solver
... and usage examples at https://github.com/TimefoldAI/timefold-quickstarts
We also have an overview of our open source solver here: https://timefold.ai/open-source-solver
I read the entire article once I recognized the name. Geoffrey is synonymous with OR/Constraints solvers in my mind. I once had to tackle an issue in this domain and wound up using OptaPlanner after weeks of research. It had the most intuitive API and the best community support by far. It's a bummer to hear that OptaPlanner was killed, but it sounds like ultimately it led to something greater, so there's a silver lin…
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Very few VCs would not agree to a wage if the founder needed it. It probably wouldn't be as high as market rate though. If you've got an independently weathly founder then both parties typically prefer equity only. Traditional seed investors may not agree anything beyond minimum wage. It depends though.
Sounds like a nightmare and a good way to go into personal bankruptcy. Unless, I guess, you had a job where you accumulated ~M of savings, which is very very few people.
It entirely depends on your personality and circumstances, it's certainly not for everyone.
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That is true. I think a guy wrote a book about this in the 19th century.
A friend of mine wants to know the author and the name of the book...
Offered without comment, except that better ebook examples are surely available somewhere:
[0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/wag...
[1] https://archive.org/details/KarlMarxCapitalVolumeI-III/Karl%...
I’m glad things went well for you and that you managed to regain control of your life’s work.
Interesting story but what I don't get is this > Founders might get a wage to avoid personal financial stress How do you make a living as a founder if you don't get a wage? Is that really a norm? > but then also need skin in the game, typically by investing personally And also this. Does it assume that you will invest your savings or what exactly?
The majority of successful founders are already wealthy. Those who aren't, have a pretty high chance of going personally bankrupt in the process
Also irrespective of the project itself, amazing wife!
Geoffrey, thanks for sharing your story with us. OR sure is a weird niche. Good enough algorithms for solving these problems have existed for decades1, but we still see low adoption and your 95% estimate of the companies not optimizing their operations rings true. Similarly to you, I spent a short while trying to sell VRP optimization with an API business model, and what dawned on me was that most companies do not ha…
If nobody does something in a whole industry perhaps it's because it's not a differentiating factor. Do you have a link to the Swedish company? It just sounds like typical "software engineers know better" story where they go bankrupt after a few years because turns out the important bits are in other parts of the business.
A recent example of "knowing better optimisation experts" I know of in my local area are with garbage trucks. A expensive company was hired to optimize - yet they apparently forgot some real world factors, like with snow and ice not all the trucks can go everywhere, some roads too narrow, etc. with the result of chaos and the workers fighting succesfully to be allowed to continue influence their working schedule, they sucesfully managed without the external experts.
People do inefficient things. And they also do it for years, thinking it is a universal law. But usually an expert from the outside will still not know better how to do things.
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Sounds like a nightmare and a good way to go into personal bankruptcy. Unless, I guess, you had a job where you accumulated ~M of savings, which is very very few people.
Sure, but in some cases it's also a great way to become very very wealthy. It entirely depends on your personality and circumstances, it's certainly not for everyone.
In very very very few cases, sure. Also, the wealth isn't the only or at least not the biggest motivator for many people trying to build their startups. But I get it - my money my rules disguised under show me how motivated you are to carry this through.