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There is something of a resemblance, certainly. Nothing like a little healthy competition.

Google is very unfocused. I've heard very a capable serial entrepreneur say "Google competes with everyone.” I understand his consternation. But I certainly don’t feel like Google has solved this problem for me when I’m fumbling around in Android Gallery.

I am very familiar with that process myself. :)

While a cached intermediate for offline use is a very real possibility, providing top quality service without use of our server system would not be feasible with the current device market. Server-side we can use hardware that is optimized for this kind of processing, without being constrained by device or browser limitations. Without that the service quality would degrade sufficiently to tarnish our product’s image and turn people away.

One example of this is the one you provided: the quantity of training required for accurate answers. If we need to keep this metric tight, relying on random ARM processors and sandboxed single-threaded javascript is not the way.

Datalba’s CEO is in the process of collecting early test users, and has been receiving large quantities of test media for use with the prototype from several of them.

Yes, there are many opportunities in the enterprise market for this. The immediate interest is in bringing a quality service to the world that many people will benefit from. The needs of enterprise customers are largely a subset of that goal, and the parts that aren’t can be handled in a given contract or agreement.

We have been working with and building on the latest in deep learning research, and have become quite proficient with designing and building these technologies.

While we will undoubtably be exploring payed options, I fully expect that to make this product a real success that there needs to be as few barriers to access as possible for the user. Degrading accuracy based on a paywall, the most seemingly economical choice, would alienate the majority of users before they have a chance become highly engaged.

Additional value-adds such as auxiliary services could be monetized, but so far we have managed to collect a number of expressions from consumers that this leads to a very ‘pushy’ presentation. While more market data is needed, it is clear this is territory that should be tread lightly.

The remaining option that is most clear is to monetize in ways that don’t directly make demands of our customers. It would be possible to produce very sophisticated market data from the information our service will collect, something that our partners are likely to find very valuable.

Customers who are not using our cloud storage service for storing content and who are concerned about security and privacy may have the option to have only metadata stored on our system. Once the images and other content have been processed the needed metadata has been largely collected, and can index remote storage. The media does need to be stored somewhere accessible to be searchable.

A browser extension is planned, but only as one of several clients including a phone app and a website.

Your diving headlong into an incredibly sticky issue. This is one of the core fears the public has been chewing on a long time... that the sharing of medical information would become so streamlined that nearly minimal effort would be required to profile an individual.

Great job! Weaving through the math, diagrams and code like this is a great setup.

You might consider adding a little more force and excitement into the writing, to keep people engaged. Maybe a joke. You'll catch a wider audience that way.

"There are a number of things to note about a... " <- This paragraph needs to be rewritten for clarity. The text is disjointed and redundant. The diagram above it should probably be made with a larger, clearer font and rearranged a little.