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There was a great ML presentation at RustConf yesterday where a couple of guys broke down building a classifier using Python and Rust. It really demystified the process.

Like a scene straight out of iRobot.

I like it. There was a thread on here recently about an ex-googler going freelance on toptal.com and earning $2,000 USD per hour. That still looks more individually focussed though.

I know what you mean about the team thing though. After 15 years in IT in London, Sydney, Copenhagen and San Francisco, there are definitely some teams I'd like to work together with again to build something great.

Busy with koalasafe.com just now, so not in for helping launch it.

Hehehe, yeah admittedly the "actually" part was exaggerated, but it definitely hit a nerve. There is this sort of tacit understanding hardware kickstarters are often late, but obviously not all, as all the good folk who have posted their own on here have shown.

Thanks mate. Admittedly we don't typically test with those browser when we push changes. :|

It's probably the number one question we get asked now rebootthesystem, by people in our network who considering KS. It's a catch 22. Aim too low, you can't deliver (unless you get additional capital... which might be the point), aim too high, people don't believe you'll get there, project fails.

It's because of these incompatible goals that projects will keep going to low and keep posting eulogies on HN.

I know what you mean. Around the time of our campaign these guys [1] were on every major news website in Australia (paid ads, not stories). Their marketing budget must have been huge. I've heard Sony launches stuff under different names too just to test the market.

It does have one positive side effect though - more people come to the platform.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nonda/get-your-macbook-...

For us, it started on OpenWRT blogs, scouring Alibaba and seeing who got back to us. Later it was email lists and the network of our accelerator.

If I was going to custom design, i'd be going to maker meetups in your city, or applying to something like Hxlr8. There are also supplier/customer places that do matchmaking with additional services for a fee (HWTrek for example). I didn't use any.

Also, if you can find a Kickstarter of someone who did something at all related, ask who they used. Lots of creators are very happy to tell you!

Bad ghost blog! Very bad! Thanks for heads up mgraczyk, now a smoother 40kb of viewing pleasure.

Agree zrgiu - we were able to avoid the hardware design aspect, but the projects you mentioned certainly couldn't - that is their whole point of existing.

Thanks! The vetting was a process of of evaluation really. From initially being responsive, to shipping us demo units promptly, providing assistance when we had problems etc. When it came down to actually placing the order, we felt they'd already put in enough effort that it was genuine business relationship.

Wrt getting ripped off, we were advised very early on: "If you make anything in China, it will be copied". It's for that reason our software on the box is a very thin layer. The smarts are in the cloud and on the smartphone apps.

Government to sell-off playgrounds - kids don't play outside anyway. Proceeds to be used to build digital parks inside Minecraft.

http://daily.koalasafe.com/

Got picked up by a few places in Australia.

In Sydney (GMT+10), it's already the 16th, so I feel like we've had to wait a whole extra day because we've been so fixated on the "15th of April"

I hope they refer to that as the "Zoolander" policy at UPS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_EacLppMW0

Fascinating. Now THIS is a museum.

There was obviously scope for personality in the commenting...

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And a nice reminder of the other big players of the day:

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