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SEEKING FREELANCER | United States | Remote

I'm bootstrapping a project and looking for someone that can quickly build a CRUD iOS app using Swift, VisionKit and invoke REST APIs for backend integration. Its a basic app for a web application with the following features:

1. User Login + FaceID (no need for signup, password reset, etc)

2. CRUD operations on an item

3. Ability to take pictures and upload

4. Ability to run Vision operations like Text detection, OCR, etc on the image.

5. Upload data to backend via REST API including background upload.

6. Publish app to iOS app store

API will be provided for login and CRUD operations.

You'll be working with me (backend developer) to make it as close to production ready and publish to app store.

If you are interested please respond with rate and approximate start date and time required to build, my email in profile.

Edit: formatting

Nextnav (no affiliation) is trying to do something similar. https://nextnav.com/

Edit: not affiliated with the company

For backend this might help https://feathersjs.com. I’m not affiliated with them, just a happy user.

I don’t do AI professionally but as a hobby, so this may not be the best way. But the way you described, it seems the user maybe taking the picture a bit further away and there may be other objects in the frame. So you may want to look into some sort of segmentation or have bounding box. This could help the user make sure they are looking at documents for the correct machine.

I think something like detectron2 [1] could help. It is Apache2 license, so commercial friendly. That said the pre-trained weights may not be commercial friendly, so you’ll want to check on that.

Also fast.ai course [2] is a good starting point to understand the basics. If you are pressed for time, just go through Lesson 1.

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2

[2] https://course.fast.ai/

Edit: added fast.ai, grammar

Not sure if there is any policy prohibiting it, but you could try Upwork or fiverr. After they join you could hire them as a contractor.

I believe op means Intro to Large Language Model

https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?si=XQQ3p92ajuQYOyqN

I find going to conferences helpful. I went to a few and found potential customers and more importantly other businesses that became new sales channels.

Depending on your personality you may or may not want to setup a booth. I’m a technical founder and not comfortable approaching people, so having a booth and people wanting to find out more about my SaaS helped establish new relationships and sales.

+1 to file a complaint with CFPB. Chase closed my account and for two months I was visiting local branches and calling them, and nothing happened, just end less calls and explaining the situation again.

I filed with CFPB, and situation resolved automatically in about two weeks.

I had posted a bit more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013206

Since you already know react, you might want to try https://reactnative.dev

As someone else mentioned the difficult part is generating the marketing materials and the app review.

You could also try PWA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app

Edit: add PWA

Microsoft, I have a wireless sculpt keyboard + mouse. The mouse scroll wheel stopped working 2 years in. I called MS support and they sent me a full replacement (keyboard + mouse) at no cost.

Chic-filla - made an online group order for about $60, they forgot to include an item of <$10 value. Called and they gave a refund for the full order.

Not op, but I would be interested in seeing it.

In the US, 911 calls are automatically routed to nearest PSAP [0] which has a real number. In the event a user originated 911 call gets disconnected, the number 911 agent calls you from will be a local number. For this reason phones and networks cannot block incoming calls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_safety_answering_poin...

If that happens to you CFPB[0] is your friend.

Chase closed my account because I deposited a valid check, but chase fraud dept closed my account with close to 13k in it.

I made a lot of trips to the bank, countless hours on the phone and what I found is different departments don’t communicate or share data. Every time I call or go to the bank the first agent would say a check was mailed and I should wait for it in the mail, but wouldn’t give me an ETA. After I insist they never mailed anything, I get transferred around and finally someone says they have not received the requested document - which I had submitted in person at a local branch.

This process repeated few time and got escalated to their “executive office” twice - which restarted the process. It felt like I would never get my money and after two months found out about CFPB and filed a complaint. About 3 weeks later chase magically found all the documents and mailed a check for the balance.

[0] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/

Our family of four is on an international vacation right now, peak season for the destination.

I checked all - direct airlines, kayak, Google flights, etc. I had specific dates and most online quotes were between $8,000 - $12,000 for cheapest economy ticket. 8k tickets had more stops/duration.

A local travel agent found a comparable ticket with good duration and stops for $5,500 for all of us. And I paid $600 for seat selection since we were traveling with kids and didn’t want to risk sitting apart.

Thanks!

Thanks for the display tip. I hadn’t considered that.

Thanks!

I’ve a Linux desktop for ML training and love the machine. But I also travel and keeping the machines in sync is difficult, so I primarily work on my laptop.

Unfortunately I’m sole developer and need most projects open for demo, etc.

Thanks! I hope to use this one for a long time too.

Thanks! I already have a Linux box for half the price for ML training, but I travel a bit so need a laptop

Thanks!

Thanks!

What I’m wondering is, what happened to those people whose work were replaced by steam or electricity - Were they able to quickly up-skill?

With AI it maybe good in macro terms but what about the folks impacted by it? Will it be possible from them to find another job without significant training/education?

I apologize if this is obvious, but are both the model and checkpoint (as referenced in getting started section in readme) Apache 2.0? Can it be used for commercial applications?

File a complaint at CFPB [1].

Long story short, I deposited a valid check, but chase fraud dept closed my account with close to 13k in it. I made a lot of trips to the bank, countless hours on the phone and what I found is different departments don’t communicate or share data.

Every time I call or go to the bank the first agent would say a check was mailed, after I insist they never mailed anything, I get transferred to someone else that says they have not received the requested document - which I had submitted in person at a local branch. This process repeated few time and got escalated to their “executive office” twice - which restarted the process.

It felt like I would never get my money and after two months I filed a complaint at CFPB. About 3 weeks later chase magically found all the documents and issued a check for the balance.

I’m not sure what is going on at this bank but they should not be allowed to treat customers like this. Just read this from the linked news article

> Victims said Chase would not review surveillance video because the amounts were below $5,000.

Why wouldn’t chase review videos if amount is less that $5000?

1. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

You could try moonlight work, they seem to have some python jobs available. I like it better than Upwork and Fiver.

Another option could be to freelance as a code reviewer, I've never tried it but it seems interesting [1]

[0] https://www.moonlightwork.com/ [1] https://app.pullrequest.com/signups/reviewer

Can you share some examples of what makes payments in India ahead of US or Europe?

I recently hired and working with someone for PCB design/manufacture low volume of IoT devices. As other threads mentions, you can always find folks on fiver and upwork.

Hardware academy is also good, where you can ask questions and meet other folks who build electronics products.

https://predictabledesigns.com/academy/

Happy to talk and give pointers, email in my profile.

Edit: I've no affiliation with hardware academy