Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
by jcims on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:49PM
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Have you tried selling your recipe parser to retailers like Kroger. Many of them are firing up features to order online and they’ll have pickers pull your order together so you can grab it later.
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Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
by mtlynch on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:38PM
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I think there's a bit of a delta between where my service is and what they'd need. There would have to be logic to do fuzzy matching from the parsed ingredient to the items in their inventory that customers can purchase. There are competitors in this space that are already far ahead of me in terms of building shopping lists from ingredients, so it would be difficult to compete with them. My idea was to start with smaller developers who prefer my service's improved accuracy and more liberal licensing terms.