Hope my founding team read this post! The bar to run a company is so high these days that you can't settle for anything mediocre!
Also, if you have a product market fit in 2021, consider yourself lucky and focus on scaling it. It is getting very difficult to find a niche where you can scale as you would in 2013.
This is the problem in many emerging economies in SE Asia. Just because many people are struggling to arrange their daily meals, Governments get into socialist mode and taxes anything which does not classify as bare necessity.
Sadly, it is a vicious loop and these economies are not modernizing enough at a rapid pace despite so much talent waiting for an opportunity.
I agree with you 100% and if you analyze the comments on HN everytime Google decides to mess around with their IM, I have seen similar sentiment around Gtalk.
I was a regular user of Gtalk during college days 10 years ago and was pissed when they merge/transition them into hangouts.
It is a poor product management decision driven by Google's philosophy of capitalizing the next big trend in the internet industry ignoring the preferences of their users.
Honestly, we the lesser mortals do not know what goes behind the closed doors when cheques like $1.5 billion are written.
People said the same thing when Microsoft valued Facebook at $15 billion. Now, in the hindsight, it seems so funny that people frowned upon those valuations.
Power of having many consumers engaged on your platform is too much in digital age.
Quite a pointless article!
What Micromax founder says is true, their users do not expect a lot from these phones and the idea is to empower the next billion by bringing them closer to information.
If you try to use these phones without being a part of the next billion, i.e. people who earn less than $200 per month, you won't have a great experience.
Came across this article just as my training model overfitted!
The type of AI that philosophers, media, government officials associate may not even come yet so much fuss and paranoia.
Experienced multiple times working on applied AI projects. Real-world datasets are messy and labeling them is an expensive task.
Enterprises are also not sure how to measure the RoI of their AI projects, especially since the accuracy is the mid-80s at best and someone needs to take ownership to teach the machine and improve the accuracy continuously.
Great - wonder how do you guys hold sway amidst tough competition from Amazon and Google for text analysis solutions?
It's a tough world out there for startups in this space.
Hehe! You will be surprised how often this happens in best of the companies.
A large fintech startup I work with had 5 GPU servers lying around idle before the CTO realized that they only need them while training the Machine Learning models and not during inference stage.
It's good but considering auto-reply feature of Gmail and integration with other apps like Calendar and Hangouts, I wouldn't pay for any such solution.
Of course, assuming the organization use Gsuite else, maybe x.ai fits the bill.
Very classic one is x.ai or Amy or whatever they call it now. They overhyped their capability of building a smart assistant for reading and replying to emails and ended up being an average service that sort of works.
Earlier, they kept telling me that I have jumped their queue and will soon get access. Now they ask me to upgrade the plan to keep using it. Complete BS!
Sendy's templating engine is a mess, best that worked for me is to design the template in Mail chimp, export it as HTML (Mail chimp provide this as free of cost) and then, use sendy for sending mails.