Or perhaps require webcam and do eye tracking?
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Or perhaps require webcam and do eye tracking?
Is there a way to detect this approach?
But not sure how applicable to agencies it is so YMMV.
If I needed more dense data viz (ex a datadog-like system) I'd probably go with something D3 based
Aside from the obvious question of "how are you different/better?" I'm most curious to know why you're going so broad initially. You've got everything from legal to devtools to gaming. Seems like the opposite of a wedge/beachhead approach. Why?
Regarding the monthly scale mentioned in article–we are way beyond that now.
A lot of really smart people worked on this and it was fun to watch unfold.
- In my chipotle bowl, it can tell if I had brown rice vs white rice
- In my In-n-out, it can tell if I got it protein style
It struggles with accurate weights/volumes but I'm excited about where this is going.
1. Analyze calories/macronutrients from a text description or photo
2. Provide onboarding/feedback/conversations like you'd get from a nutritionist
My stack is Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, OpenAI APIs. I chose Rails because I'm very fast in it, but I've found the combination of Rails+Sidekiq+ActionCable is really nice for building conversational experiences on the web. If I stick with this, I'll probably need a native iOS app though.
Vendor stack is: GitHub, Heroku (compute), Neon (DB), Loops.so (email), PostHog (analytics), Honeybadger (errors), and Linear.
My hypothesis is that, if you could drive traffic to your site and offer a fast checkout experience, there's probably multiple ways to monetize that. Driving the traffic is the hard part.
Here's a pro tip + feature you should implement: Shopify has a semi-hidden hack where you can link directly to checkout of a product if you know the variant ID. You could add a BUY NOW button to your site without forcing the user to navigate the original site or checkout flow. Example: https://hapaboardshop.com/cart/42165521907955 (it also supports quantities and coupon codes)
A word of caution: more products isn't necessarily better. I definitely found there to be a long tail of really bad shopify stores and products. IMO it's better to curate or audit the stores you index–otherwise you risk your site being littered with kitchy t-shirts or drop-shipping garbage.
I think you could get consumers to subscribe to discounts/deals at nearby restaurants and I think you could get restaurants to offer discounts one-time or during non-peak days/times. I tried to do this in the past using card issuing services (like Stripe's) but it was clunky with debit cards. The ability to do this via credit would make this a lot easier.
I live in a California town called Arroyo Grande ("big creek")
Couldn't the why be due to (at least in part) these innate gender differences?
"Requires NodeJS"
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I lead engineering for a product group devoted to deeply understanding jobs & job seekers–and then surfacing the best candidates to employers. One of our teams was a YC startup acquired in 2017. If you're looking to work remotely at a large tech company with a genuinely positive mission and great work-life balance, then please keep reading.
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This could be a way to do the right thing while lowering your risk of being charged with violating some antiquated hacking law.
But also talk to an attorney before doing that.
I lead engineering for a product group devoted to deeply understanding jobs & job seekers–and then delivering the best candidates to employers. If you're looking to work remotely at a large tech company with a genuinely positive mission and great work-life balance, then please keep reading.
I currently have several engineering roles open across 4 teams, including:
- 2 Engineering manager roles
- 4 Senior fullstack software engineer roles (4+ yoe)
- 2 Staff/Principle engineers (10+ yoe)
I encourage anyone here who is interested to email me directly: edungan@indeed.com
Tech stack: React, Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring), PostgreSQL, Redis, ES, AWS, k8s, Elasticsearch
I currently have several engineering roles open across 4 teams, including:
- 3 Engineering manager roles
- 2 Senior fullstack software engineer roles
- 1 fullstack software engineer (junior to mid-level)
- 2 Staff/Principle engineers
I encourage anyone here who is interested to email me directly: edungan@indeed.com
Tech stack: React, Ruby on Rails, Java (Spring), PostgreSQL, Redis, ES, AWS, k8s, Elasticsearch
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