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Comment · 1 year ago
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
Comment · 1 year ago
Nextnav (no affiliation) is trying to do something similar. https://nextnav.com/
Edit: not affiliated with the company
Comment · 2 years ago
For backend this might help https://feathersjs.com. I’m not affiliated with them, just a happy user.
Comment · 2 years ago
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
Edit: added fast.ai, grammar
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
I believe op means Intro to Large Language Model
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
+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
Comment · 3 years ago
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
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not op, but I would be interested in seeing it.
Comment · 3 years ago
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...
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
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.