morsanu

Arbitrary deadlines are only valuable as checkpoints to review work done and plan ahead. Using them as a timeframe to finish some tasks shows that you don't really understand estimates.

I'm browsing HN everyday, but only once. I look at the first page, open the titles that seem interesting in new tabs and that's it. Sometimes I go into the comments and read some opinions about some topic.

I also read the good titles I missed during the week in the newsletter on Saturday morning.

I keep up to date about new technologies and directions, I think that helps me adding context to my managerial decisions.

Of course we are trying to promote our business, writing some case studies is one way to do it.

But I shared this here not because I thought we will get clients from HN (probably we will be getting some competition instead) but because I thought it's an interesting application of technology that people would enjoy reading about.

Maybe we don't see things the same way but even learning about the manual process of counting pearls was interesting for me.

Our CEO is from the US.

It really depends on the city and the type of business. Bucharest wages are higher.

Btw, we are not an outsourcing company. Everything is done in Romania: development, sales, management.

If you have the skills, you should definitely try it.

We have a full team working on this for about 7 years. Constant improvements to our algorithms, new challenges, new technologies. A ton of other functionalities besides counting (e.g. forms, reports, integration). A lot of work on the backend, UX. Also, a lot of sales and marketing involved.

I'm working on this from Romania. Everything is ok.

Thanks for the idea. Getting the app in front of companies that need it is one of our challenges.

No, it's actually a pretty good question.

We are a custom ML & computer vision software company and about 7 years ago we got several requests in a short time period for counting items in images. We thought it was a great idea for a product and kind of started our journey as an internal startup.

We are working on this product in-house for 7 years now. We are an internal startup from a company that does custom computer vision and ML software.

No mturk, no tricks, a lot of work in ML and in UX as it is not a very straightforward task.

Besides the cost cutting, keep in mind that the employees that don't have to manually count are not getting fired. They are providing more and better client services.