karthikvellanki

I'd throw Snap in the mix as well. Spectacles were not really a failure because it was never meant to be a mass market success. I think they're iterating in public. It's much better to do that, than stay secretive for years together and then launch an underwhelming product like Magic Leap. Snap has the AR capabilities and is the closest to getting people to wear hardware on their head in a casual setting.

Built a basic plug and play developer portal and API gateway at the beginning of the lockdown.

You can expose your APIs to third party developers by adding your endpoints, choosing the type of authentication and setting rate limits.

The app takes care of provisionimg API tokens and tracking requests. The documentation is auto generated from the swagger file.

GitHub: https://github.com/karthikvellanki/tunnel

Demo: https://shrouded-eyrie-25569.herokuapp.com/

For compute intensive applications, doesn't compute time far exceed the network latency?

If compute time is what makes up the bulk of the response time, moving the server to the edge won't really reduce the response time significantly.

Your co-worker's observation is actually more obvious than we think it is.

Since states in India are essentially divided based on linguistic grounds, he would have been exposed to two Indian languages at best - the regional language in his town and Hindi (if the dominant language in the town is not Hindi already).

In the Bay Area you'll find people from various states of India.

There are specific use cases for which chatbots are great. Lemonade insurance is great application of a chatbot.

What could have been a traditional application form has been made significantly better by a contextual chatbot. It's also definitely better than talking on the phone.

I guess the meta learning is, if the answers are discrete values and the follow up questions are contextual, chatbots can be great.

I've never understood the Venezuala argument about Bitcoin. When someone is buying Bitcoin with a volatile currency (like the Bolivar), it means someone else now has that volatile currency. The volatile currency doesn't suddenly dissappear and take it's problems with it. How is this different from buying dollars or euros with the volatile currency. Am I missing something?

Texting being more common than calls is a pretty bad example. Texting is more popular because it allows asynchronous communication. Calls require both participants to be connected at the same time, which is a big hassle.

Thanks so much for the elaborate response.

We have the product on a live server now, so we'll probably keep it up and running for people to get a feel of it without having to put in the effort to set it up.

Gobble went through various iterations/pivots in their seven years of existence. One of the iteration was an Etsy for food - which didn't work.

As you said, they are currently operating on the Ikea for food model.

Can't find the thread, but Segment started after the ShowHN post got a great response.

Wouldn't gaming and e-sports be a decent application of AR?

Anyone know why Apple hasn't acquired one of the existing self driving car startups.

If a company known to be old and slow like GM could overpay and snap up Cruise, what's stopping Apple from opening their warchest to acquire one of the many other self driving car startups that have made decent progress?

I don't think Zipcar owns the cars. Their model may not be as low touch as Turo or Getaround where you can just list your car. But the cars on the Zipcar platform are owned by other people that have lent it out to Zipcar through a more thorough process.

Shipbob seems to be alive and kicking. They switched their focus to businesses early on.

I don't know if they operate in wherever you're located.

This may be semantics but technically Lyft was the first to come up with the Uberx model of anyone becoming a driver.

Could you elaborate on the other ways that 'nerds' could be wrong?

I think it boils down to tradeoffs. For example- The best option (custom solution) may cost you 100k and drives max productivity. But if Asana (a more one size fits all product) costs you 20k and drives about 70% of max productivity - Asana might be the better option if the additional 30% productivity is not worth 80k.

If you lived in a deflationary regime, what incentive would you have to work? You'd rather just sit on your wealth and do nothing. There would be no economic output.

My guess is assuming Airbnb takes 10% of the total booking cost - the additional 3% spread would mean a 43% increase in revenue