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what're the implications of this? are they solving a meaningful problem here? why deploy agents on digitalocean

thanks for the options! at enterprise scale, is twilio still the most reliable? happy to try other options but i want to abstract out the cpaas layer as much as possible and focus on building performing agents.

reliability and scalability is critical to me

How was this done? anybody know what technology EA used?

Great story! Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/cjz3hd/how_ja...

thank you. do you happen to know the rate that they charge for the participant + the research firm's fee on average?

Thanks. Pretty interesting, but are the users they source mass market folks or bespoke? Can't seem to figure it out on their website. curious because if my startup solution is highly specialized, getting feedback from Joe won't provide insights.

agreed. i've found CVS self-checkout to be the best of all retail stores i go to

RFID tags are ~10c (Impinj) and are getting cheaper each year. they're widely used in apparel stores. think it'd be tough to justify attaching them to low value items in a grocery store. self checkout prob more effective using computer vision

Can someone more educated on the microbiome please explain why research in this area has barely progressed over the last decade? maybe i'm wrong but i can't find any new treatments for gut health. like someone else mentioned, my digestion has materially changed for the worse since taking a long bout of antibiotics 8 years ago...wondering why there's no treatment.

Combination of 1) short-term business thinking (save $1 today = $1 more of EPS) and 2) fear of competition building AI products and taking share. thus rush to use first usable platform (e.g. openAI).

Psychology and FOMO plays interesting role in walking directly into a snake pit.

Exactly. I think one could argue that "gains" have yielded more successful startups. e.g. Amazon/DoorDash - driving to the store was "fine", but ship to home = way more convenient Uber - Waving down taxi is "fine" experience, but on demand transportation = way more convenient Slack - communicating through email is "fine", but async messaging = more real time and productive

Thanks for the thoughtful questions! Sadly our model is still in the process of being trained (utilizing GDS transaction data) and we can't provide you with any metrics that would validate the viability without being actively deceptive. However, we can say that the data we have seen, coupled with the fact that both Hopper and Google have existing flight price ML models, that there is something here.

As you can see from the link we've submitted, we have a landing page that is purposely built to help gauge user demand for our product. Getting sign ups is our core metric and focus to gauge user demand as we train our model in parallel.

Would love to stay in touch and keep you updated on our model's progress. Feel free to sign up for our mailing list at the posted link or PM me.

Good question. Gas will be a key input into any future model that we build, but given we are in the initial stages of building out our app, we are not baking in gas prices into our model.

Hey all, my team and I are developing an app that uses machine learning to predict price drops in flight prices. We then use these predictions to sell tickets cheaper than the market rate. Happy to answer any and all questions and would love any feedback.

I don't think this makes sense to do. Shopify is great at developing software to help merchants sell online. They have successfully built a relationship with the merchant side of the market...but what is there advantage on the creating a business on the retail customer side? At the moment, Shopify only services the merchants. This being said, it is still possible to build a business on customer side, but the question is...would it make sense?

I'd say it wouldn't make sense to do this. Shopify has no relationship with the retail customer. To build it, they'd have to build traffic from scratch. They'd have to not only build a unique customer brand, but also have to figure out a way to drive traffic, which would likely be through aggressive marketing (Facebook / Google ads), which wouldn't be economical. Secondly, what would Shopify build a brand around for customers?

Amazon's brand is built on the promise of not only providing the cheapest prices, but also the convenience of 2 day shipping (achievable only through scale), amazing customer service (and lenient refunds, again achievable only through scale). This being said, what would Shopify's "brand" promise be?

Curation of their favorite products? Who says that Shopify is qualified to curate?

All of these factors make it hard for me to believe that they'd enter and create a serious business from a unified e-commerce site that'd compete with Amazon.