We're building an AI moving company! WHAT? Well, this article hopefully explains why we think moving is the single most powerful commercial moment in a person’s life. When you relocate, your housing, finances, daily routines, and spending habits all reset at once.
Amazon built the Everything Store. We’re building for the Everything Moment, using AI to bring transparency and trust to one of the most broken, chaotic industries out there.
While I don't like the blog title, many things said in there rang true for my company (MoveAI.com). We are building an AI-powered moving concierge that can orchestrate your relocation experience end-to-end.
We initially were developing a system that we had hoped could handle everything and eject any workflow issues to a human so the operations team could kick the machine. We were hoping to avoid an interface all together on the customer side.
After a few versions and attempts at building this system, we moved towards a traditional app where we focused on building a product people wanted and automate parts of it over time. But even the parts we automated needed an interface for customers to spot check our work. So we found a great designer.
...Before we knew it, we were building a traditional company, with some AI. The company is doing well and people love what we're building, but it's different than we imagined.
We still believe in the long term vision and promise of the technology, but the article is right, this isn't going to be an overnight process unless some new architecture emerges.
In the mean time, we're focused on helping people get from A to B easily using whatever means necessary, because moving f**ing sucks. If you're moving soon or know anybody who is, we'd be happy to help them. -P
Cool to see my hometown finally pulling in tech. Feel like Amazon coming to town and the VT investing in CS grads in the area is going to pay dividends long term.
Move AI automates the moving process. You have a busy life. ...and now that life needs to be somewhere else. Talk to us for 30 minutes and we'll handle everything for you, down to the smallest detail.
We are building a mobile app with a web-based admin backend. We use AI (vision & LLM's) to solve several time-consuming problems and to ensure a magical experience.
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Happy to discuss my strategies over a 15 min call if you’re up for it. I’ve gotten decently good at figuring out what to look for when evaluating them.
I was there. Paying off student loans like a mf’er doesn’t leave a lot left over. Now I have no loans so it’s easier to save, however when you’re in a hole, the best thing to do is fill the hole.
Read about designing on a grid. For the fastest cheat, look at UI kits or dribbble for inspiration. Search for the purpose of your page and then just copy the design. For 30 minutes that’s the best you can do.
This is an issue with getting feedback on designs too. Wonder if there is overlap in the problem space.
If you present pixel perfect designs for feedback, feedback is less specific because users think the product is finished. However, when it’s a pencil sketch, users become critical and critique everything because they don’t think anything is set in stone. I try to present LoFi everything until final sign off.
Speed, so I can prove it out quicker. Building this on my own, after work, will take me a while. Wouldn’t need much to prove it out. Maybe $250k. I can do product design and engineering myself. Would be nice to hire a contractor to handle a few things I’m weaker at.
Thank you Google search… This is not the question I asked.
It’s a large, stale market with incompetent competitors and no technology. I feel confident the idea will work and scale. The people with an anti-gun sentiment are not my customers.
Globally there’s nothing stopping this idea from interfacing with governments or other buyers abroad but initially the market is US.
We realized we were calling each other too often asking where the other is and just decided to let tech solve the problem. Now I can push a button and see how far away from home she is.
If I decide to do something sketchy, I can turn off location temporarily and just lie to her about what I was doing if she checks while I was crime-ing. Same as the pretech way. :-P
I recently came across a video of a police officer in a high speed pursuit shooting out of his car window one handed into oncoming traffic. I remembered the title of the video I found. I remembered it happened in New Mexico and that the police officer was moved to detective since this was his 3rd gun fight in 2 years out of the departments total of 4. I was trying to pull it up to show my fiancé how nuts this cops behavior is.
No amount of searching for this video on google could find this video. 20 minutes. I was infuriated. My brain started going to dark places. Is this censorship?
No. Google sucks now. Somehow. They killed the golden goose.
I fired up Bing. Typed the title of the video and found 100 copies instantly.
I now use Bing. And it’s not bad. Generally I can find what I’m looking for. It’s like a slightly worse version of what Google used to be. But it’s an infinitely better version of what google is now.
I also use Brave search engine but that’s worse than bing still.
If you’re looking for interesting party conversation, try opening with “I recently switched my search engine to Bing.” The conversation goes to fun places and most people will agree that Google has gotten much worse.
Amazon built the Everything Store. We’re building for the Everything Moment, using AI to bring transparency and trust to one of the most broken, chaotic industries out there.
Would love your thoughts!