mbeissinger

Our driving force is to make this technology as accessible as possible to as many people as possible. We believe that machine learning will be a huge new way that people interact with computers going forward to better their lives.

Lobe will always let you train custom machine learning for free on your computer. We hope this becomes a vibrant ecosystem, and the business model around the edges can come later for value-add services.

I don't see a way to edit the title -- is that possible for someone who isn't OP?

We also want to bundle some examples with future releases so you can have data to start, great suggestion!

We believe there are several advantages of Lobe over tools like Google AutoML :) Lobe is making the entire process of creating custom machine learning accessible, from creating your dataset to training and playing with your model, to integrating it into apps:

* Easy to use - no coding, cloud configuration or machine learning experience required.

* Free & private - train for free on your own computer without uploading your data to the cloud. No accounts required.

* Ship anywhere - available for both Mac and Windows. Export your model and ship it on any platform you choose.

AutoML requires paid accounts with high friction setup and is focused on just training a model on your data. You would have to pay and retrain your model manually every time you want to make an iteration. Lobe gives fluidity with iterating and providing feedback to your model through Play.

No catch! We are first and foremost trying to make this technology accessible to as many people as possible, and we want to grow an ecosystem around it. Business models around that can come later.

Yep we are starting with image classification for this initial beta launch, but plan to expand to more data types and problem types in future releases! The vision is to make a tool usable by anyone to build custom machine learning

I would love to see a video of that!

Hey Markus from Lobe here :) all images and labels stay private to your computer, we don't ever see any of it. We only collect some generic app usage data for telemetry if you opt-in to sharing analytics after installing Lobe.

Hi, Markus here from the Lobe team. The Lobe app is free and you will always be able to train for free on your computer! Our goal is to make machine learning accessible to anyone.