alexschiff

Have you looked at Structure Sensor before? (structure.io) - it's $399

Check out Structure Sensor (structure.io) if you haven't yet. Full disclosure I work for the company that makes it :)

This is already happening with some of the low-cost mobile 3D sensor accessories out there (like Structure Sensor). Having it built into the phone is obviously where a lot of people want to see things go but there's definitely a prosumer class popping up that were priced out of traditional 3D scanners previously.

Occipital - Multiple Openings - San Francisco, CA or Boulder, CO (Full-time)

Interested in working with mobile devices for large scale SLAM?

Occipital is equal parts science lab and software startup, on a mission to bring spatial computing to everyday life. Last year, we launched Structure Sensor: (http://structure.io, http://kck.st/16BkwuO). It was the first 3D sensor for mobile devices, and it was one of the top funded Kickstarter tech projects of all time. Today, Structure Sensor (and the associated Structure SDK) are reinventing the way people practice medicine, create visual effects for TV shows and movies, and much more.

We’re giving regular mobile devices a superpower — the power to capture and understand their real-world surroundings. Structure Sensor and SDK isn’t the first product we’ve launched: we’re also the company behind RedLaser (acquired by eBay) and 360 Panorama. We have a record of taking computer vision technology on the frontier of “possible,” and then being the first ones to make it consumer-ready on a smartphone or tablet. We know mobile.

We just announced our Series B from Intel Capital, Foundry Group, and Shea Ventures (http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/29/occipital-raises-13m-series...), and we’re putting gas on the fire to accelerate.

Current openings:

* Computer Vision Engineer

* iOS Engineer

* Business Development Manager

* Electrical Engineer

* Developer Evangelist

* Firmware Engineer

If you’re interested, drop me a line at [email protected]. Make sure to include a fun fact about yourself, preferred Starcraft 2 race, or favorite so-bad-it’s-good movie.

Occipital - Multiple Openings - San Francisco, CA or Boulder, CO (Full-time and Internships)

Interested in working with mobile devices for large scale SLAM?

Occipital is equal parts science lab and software startup, on a mission to bring spatial computing to everyday life. Last year, we launched Structure Sensor: (http://structure.io, http://kck.st/16BkwuO). It was the first 3D sensor for mobile devices, and it was one of the top funded Kickstarter tech projects of all time. Today, Structure Sensor (and the associated Structure SDK) are reinventing the way people practice medicine, visual effects, and many other industries.

We’re giving regular mobile devices a superpower — the power to capture and understand their real-world surroundings. Structure Sensor and SDK isn’t the first product we’ve launched: we’re also the company behind RedLaser (acquired by eBay) and 360 Panorama (8M+ paid downloads). We have a record of taking computer vision technology on the frontier of “possible,” and then being the first ones to make it consumer-ready on a smartphone or tablet. We know mobile.

We just announced our Series B from Intel Capital, Foundry Group, and Shea Ventures (http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/29/occipital-raises-13m-series...), and we’re putting gas on the fire to accelerate.

Current openings:

* Computer Vision Engineer

* iOS Engineer

* Business Development Manager

* Developer Evangelist

* Electrical Engineer

* Firmware Engineer

* Finance

* Operations/logistics

* Product Manager, Hardware

If you’re interested, drop me a line at [email protected]. Make sure to include a fun fact about yourself, preferred Starcraft 2 race, or favorite so-bad-it’s-good movie.

Occipital - Multiple Openings - San Francisco, CA or Boulder, CO (Full-time and Internships)

Interested in working with mobile devices for large scale SLAM?

Occipital is equal parts science lab and software startup, on a mission to bring spatial computing to everyday life.

Last year, we launched Structure Sensor: (http://structure.io, http://kck.st/16BkwuO). It was the first 3D sensor for mobile devices, and it was one of the top funded Kickstarter tech projects of all time. Today, Structure Sensor (and the associated Structure SDK) are reinventing the way people practice medicine, visual effects, and many other industries. We’re giving regular mobile devices a superpower — the power to capture and understand their real-world surroundings.

Structure Sensor and SDK isn’t the first product we’ve launched: we’re also the company behind RedLaser (acquired by eBay) and 360 Panorama (8M+ paid downloads). We have a record of taking computer vision technology on the frontier of “possible,” and then being the first ones to make it consumer-ready on a smartphone or tablet. We know mobile.

We just announced our Series B from Intel Capital, Foundry Group, and Shea Ventures (http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/29/occipital-raises-13m-series...), and we’re putting gas on the fire to accelerate. Current openings:

* Computer Vision Engineer

* iOS Engineer

* Business Development Manager

* Developer Evangelist

* Office Manager

* Electrical Engineer

* Finance

* Operations/logistics

* Product Manager, Hardware

If you’re interested, drop me a line at [email protected]. Make sure to include a fun fact about yourself, preferred Starcraft 2 race, or favorite so-bad-it’s-good movie.

Chiming in as another Occipitalite here — we're hiring for much more than just CV!

Other openings:

* iOS

* Electrical engineering + firmware

* Finance

* Operations/logistics

* Product management (for hardware, specifically)

* Developer evangelist

* Biz dev

* Office manager/people ops

If you're interested in any of these, give us a holler! You can either email Dustin, or my email is [email protected]. Make sure to include a fun fact about yourself, your favorite "so bad it's good" movie, or preferred Starcraft 2 race.

I wonder how important (and difficult) it's going to be to have a desktop app for this. Everyone I know that uses Slack, Hipchat, etc. has the desktop app.

Do you plan to offer one / is that possible?

A lot of young interviewees think it's not their place to ask these questions. At least from my own perspective as a founder/CEO, as long as it's not combative, I think much more highly of people I interview who show the maturity to think about these things.

I'm the founder, so I'm biased, but I use Fetchnotes for storing most things like this: links, things to check out (books, music, movies, apps, restaurants, places etc), ideas, resources, random thoughts, knowledge/trivia I come across, reminders/tasks and a ton more.

We built it to be simple, lightweight and flexible. Just add a hashtag to a word in a note, and it groups that thought with anything else with that hashtag. Involve another person? I just @-mention their username, email or phone number, or I can send them a link to the note. There's no system to learn — when you want to find something, just click on the tag you used.

Specifically for things I learn, I have a #randomfacts tag that I add things to when I come across an interesting piece of trivia (mostly from articles or audiobooks), and a #thoughts tag for things I think of on my own.

Check it out at www.fetchnotes.com and let me know what you think! I'm at [email protected]

Nice find, hadn't seen that article. With their release of Food and Hello, they definitely are looking at being a suite of tools rather than just one. I'm most interested if they're actually going to release a to do list app, as they've hinted at for 2 years.

Hey! Alex from Fetchnotes here — we actually JUST released a new web app that is way faster. Check it out and let me know if it's still giving you trouble: www.fetchnotes.com

Fetchnotes - Cambridge, MA. Interns and full-time. We make your notes and to do lists better, not just better organized.

We have a really simple and effective product for keeping track of reminders, ideas, etc., but what I think is really exciting about our business is the R&D we're doing to automate those things or find relevant context/information.

For example, you write down a book you want to look up, and we show you where you can find it. You have a grocery list, we let you know when you're within a block of a store that has those items. The possibilities are endless, and there's just as much product strategy that needs to be determined there as there is code. But we believe that productivity software can do so much more than empower the procrastination they do today.

Looking to add engineers with experience in mobile development (Android in particular), JavaScript (we use Angular, but experience with another framework like Backbone or Ember will suffice), machine learning and natural language processing. As far as NLP goes, we're doing some really unique things that involve more statistics than typical NLP toolkits, so a good stats background will be helpful.

Backed by TechStars Boston and a group of fantastic angel investors and venture capitalists, we're a young, close-knit and energetic team of 6 who believe that simple products, engineered properly, can make a big impact on people's lives. We hang out after work frequently, have dinner together at least weekly, and are genuinely friends (not just co-workers). After big releases, we'll usually take the day off to do something fun like laser tag or kayaking. I believe in hiring people that I want to work with over the course of a career, not just for a particular role today. At the end of every interview I ask myself, "In 10 years, will I regret not having had the opportunity to work with this person?"

Also, we were #2 on Hacker News last year when we accidentally called 2,000 people bitches: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557813

Sound interesting? Send your Github and a little about yourself to [email protected]. If you want to learn more about us, check out angel.co/fetchnotes or kareer.me/discover/fetchnotes.

The problems that the author mentions are behavioral problems not problems with to do lists in general. Nothing is stopping someone from adding priority, context, etc. To do lists in their simplest form are just a way to get it out of your brain and in a real-world format so you don't forget them.

It's actually a really interesting time for people building software in this space: http://alexdschiff.com/post/58069189811/chaos-in-consumer-pr.... Lots of shut downs, fundraises, acquisitions and chaos that is consolidating user bases in one of the most fragmented industries around.

I'm writing an essay on the subject right now, and I think the biggest problems with productivity software come down to these three things:

1) It's not just your to do list. Most tools try to make arbitrary distinctions between what is a "to do" vs. what is not when the way that most people operate — and this is often a shocker to people that are into productivity — is just "I need to write SOME thought down for SOME reason LATER." For example, people might make a "note" that is just "Local Natives" - the name of a band. But isn't that representative of a task, "Check out Local Natives"? The lines are blurry, and while most people keep track of tasks in some way, they don't really "do" task management consciously.

2) No one is getting social right. On the one hand, there's Evernote, which deliberately ignores social, and then there's email, which is a great way to send things to people but a terrible way to keep track of things for the recipient. In the middle there are collaboration tools, but any project manager can tell you getting everyone to adopt a new system is heinous. IMO, you need to start with and build around the individual first (like Evernote), but tightly integrate a social layer to get those notes and to do's to other people on top of it.

3) Now what? The author makes an important point about context. Note-taking apps and to do lists have incredibly rich data about people that can be leveraged to actually help deliver that context and guide people through the next step. The next generation of productivity software will be less about helping people stay organized and more about actually helping them execute and get things done.

Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder and CEO of a company in this space called Fetchnotes. We're gearing up to release a new version with the above 3 things at the heart of our approach. If you're interested, get in touch: alex(at)fetchnotes(dot)com.

Are you using Ghostery or something else that blocks Mixpanel and other things like it? We noticed a bug surface like this when people use those add-ons.

Looking forward to your application! Already a good impression by finding one of our bugs :)

As long as the rest checks out, I don't see a problem with it. Shoot me an email at [email protected] and we'll chat.

Fetchnotes - Cambridge, MA. Interns and full-time. We make your notes and to do lists better, not just better organized.

We have a really simple and effective product for keeping track of reminders, ideas, etc., but what I think is really exciting about our business is the R&D we're doing to automate those things or find relevant context/information.

For example, you write down a book you want to look up, and we show you where you can find it. You have a grocery list, we let you know when you're within a block of a store that has those items. The possibilities are endless, and there's just as much product strategy that needs to be determined there as there is code. But we believe that productivity software can do so much more than empower the procrastination they do today.

Looking to add engineers with experience in mobile development (Android in particular), JavaScript (we use Angular, but experience with another framework like Backbone or Ember will suffice), machine learning and natural language processing. As far as NLP goes, we're doing some really unique things that involve more statistics than typical NLP toolkits, so a good stats background will be helpful.

Backed by TechStars Boston and a group of fantastic angel investors and venture capitalists, we're a young, close-knit and energetic team of 6 who believe that simple products, engineered properly, can make a big impact on people's lives. We hang out after work frequently, have dinner together at least weekly, and are genuinely friends (not just co-workers). After big releases, we'll usually take the day off to do something fun like laser tag or kayaking. I believe in hiring people that I want to work with over the course of a career, not just for a particular role today. At the end of every interview I ask myself, "In 10 years, will I regret not having had the opportunity to work with this person?"

Also, we were #2 on Hacker News last year when we accidentally called 2,000 people bitches: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557813

Sound interesting? Send your Github and a little about yourself to [email protected]. If you want to learn more about us, check out angel.co/fetchnotes or kareer.me/discover/fetchnotes.

The first paragraph was all it took to convince me to send this to our design team.