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Amazed to see such good colors on even cardboard items (like that pokemon pog). Isn't the water supposed to fade paint layers?

I totally agree with you. $117,000 is not even significant...

To become one.

Since I started reading HN a couple years ago (yes, reading. I don't feel confident enough to comment) I learned so many things. Now I use code almost everyday in my day job as a UX designer. I work in tech, so it only makes sense I understand as much of it as possible.

Also, it's a hobby of mine to build things. Since I joined HN it's been quite a journey : got myself a RPi and played around with it, build a couple dynamic websites on my own server, taught myself Ruby on Rails (that's what the hackers use at my startup) and so on.

thanks guys !

That might be a strategy of theirs. Hit the early adopters hard with a high price, then reduce the cost fast for the masses.

This is a pretty good summary of what needs to be done right here.

"The studios clearly prefer we use them" : what do you mean ?

I find it interesting that Netflix is such a success, despite the availability of many great films.

As the presence of great films on the platform may suggest, it's a long shot to assume that they're more interested in creating their own -great- content than simply offering you great content. But given the unavailability of a single legal platform to rule them all, the bet on original ideas propelled with data and smart marketing was and is still the best one.

IMO, if Netflix had all the content in the world, they would probably stop creating their own.

There is a time-to-market distortion with this excitement over bot platforms.

On the one hand major messaging actors (Facebook, Slack, Kik, WeChat and Line) are competing over their IM platforms. On the other hand, they are competing over who gets the best bots (thus, the developer market). No unsupervised AI is reliable, yet everyone is fighting over who gets there first.

I think the company that will seize this market has not been born yet. Thoughts ?

We are based in Paris and the entire team is French (some of us work remotely). We could either translate it into English or more "rare" languages (ie. where text-based training sets are rare)

If your French is not too rusty, feel free to check out hellojam.fr

Promising ! This could be an interesting way to stimulate startups from around the globe. Last time I felt this way was when I discovered Stripe Atlas.