The 8th prior founder joined Roboflow recently, though they are the first to have a $100M+ prior exit.
(ex) Founders are joining Roboflow because you have autonomy, your impact is compounding, and we're so early.
If you're quick, you'll be first 30. DM to write your own job.
ChatGPT Hackathon Demos w/
@trychoma
,
@replit
:
🔩 ChatGPU - Connect to a GPU + NVIDIA SMI
🪄 PromptWizard - Access top prompts like for games
📊 MLFlow Assist - See/deploy ML Flow experiments
🇺🇸 Political Action - Send custom emails to legislators
Thrilled to share Roboflow has raised a Series A to continue democratizing computer vision.
Computer vision is an inflection point technology - like the PC or mobile phone - every industry needs. Developers are driving that future.
Elated to share news on our 2.1M seed round, co-led by Lachy Groom and Craft Ventures.
We've already seen 20k developers use Roboflow for everything from counting fish to accelerating cancer research.
Every industry will be rewritten with computer vision
#1
on HN right now: How Facebook's Segment Anything Model (SAM) rewrites computer vision
@swyx
and I breakdown what SAM is, its impact, and how to use it on his podcast
Roboflow's supported by great investors including YC, David Sacks, others. David's been thoughtful, pragmatic, even keeled, helpful. YC is awesome.
we also use Rippling. I aim to emulate Parker's customer centricity and speed.
I know. nuanced tweets aren't 🌶️. back to building.
Segment Anything 2 is here!
Roboflow users have applied SAM1 to 4.9M images in the last 30 days alone.
and SAM 2 only gets better:
🎥 Video tracking
🖼️ Dataset of 51k videos w/ masks
🤝 Apache-2 license
🎯 Better zero shot accuracy
✍️
@nikhilaravi
et al
⬇️
when we built in 2021, we didn't realize we were building the first viral multimodal app
fast forward to '23, and what took 48hr to build is rebuilt in 5min on stage. 500x engineer with roboflow's tools.
enjoyed
@aiDotEngineer
. great conference
@swyx
Last night,
@MountainDew
ran a Super Bowl commercial offering $1 million to whomever can tweet the exact number of bottles in this commercial.
This is a perfect place to use computer vision.
👇 Here's how
all the interns of today are the leaders of tomorrow, and they won’t forget how you treated them & spoke of them as they climb the ranks, just know that.
Scraping public data is legal.
This is a huge ruling, and a tiny startup bested LinkedIn. Twice.
9th Court says:
👤 Public data (like public profiles) can be scraped
⛔ Data requiring login is not public
❌ LinkedIn cannot interfere with public scraping
our team has been eagerly awaiting GPT-4 multimodality, GPT-4 Vision ("GPT-V" 🫢)
🟧 i'll save you reading 192 HN comments. some neat use cases / limitations in first testing
🏡 Home Assist - SmartHouse via ChatGPT
🔌 Plugin Writer - Plugin for...writing plugins
📑 InfoBot - Create collaborative wiki pages
🌐 MultiOn - Prompt to take action on any site
✈️ ExpediaGPT - Expedia in 100 lines of GPT
🤳 GPT4Images - StableDiffusion + ChatGPT for comics
This is really scary: one of the most popular open sourced self-driving car datasets has been missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians and dozens of cyclists for years, and nobody has noticed.
This is how people get run over.
years after the batch, YC still finds ways to get you to ship early and often @ YC Launch Live
in 5min, we built a video processing pipeline that streams from a webcam to CLIP, assesses similarities, and displays matching frames — running locally
code:
Fun moment from last week's YC Launch Live
@roboflow
put together a live demo of a realtime CV pictionary game *on stage* using a dozen lines of code and half a dozen clicks on their workflow builder
Latent Space Hackathon
🍣 DALLE2 to improve DoorDash menus
🐶 CLIP interrogator for automated Instagram caption writing
🎤 GPT3 to summarize/search podcasts
💬 Real time Whisper/GPT3 conversation
🐉 Dungeons & Dragons infinity
🎬 Auto clip Mr Beast videos to any moment
one of my favorite design decisions about
@cruise
is they turn on the windshield wipers not for it to see, but for its human passengers to feel more comfortable
🏥 CallADoctor - Asks a doctor for second opinion
👥 GPWe - Collaborative ChatGPT
🌎 OmegaGPT - Create collective action
👾 BotOrNot - Adversarial Turing Test as a game (by
@swyx
!)
🐥 TwitterGPT - Twitter social circle and topic summaries
⠕ ReplitBuild - Prompt to app on Replit
⭐️ supervision is
#2
on GitHub trending
we write open source tools for repeatable parts of computer vision.
things superheroes would do for you:
- converting annotation formats
- SAHI for tiled inference on small objects
- slicing / dicing model detections
and now we…
@Suhail
hey, suhail, i work on roboflow
you can use foundation models to prompt/label for you. if they fail, you can use SAM + yourself to label. or, you can pass to an outsource team. ex vid i made for you:
I can onboard you now here:
The first time we applied to YC, we were rejected without an interview.
Two years in, 50k devs build with us, the Fortune 100 rely on our tools, and YC recognizes roboflow as a Top Company.
Join us as we keep climbing this new leaderboard:
Congrats to the 2022 YC Top Companies!
This year, we also launched the YC Breakthrough Companies list to highlight the fast-growing companies that have received between $15M-$300M from YC:
We're open sourcing the Roboflow Inference Server: our battle-hardened solution for deploying computer vision models to prod, built upon lessons of serving 100Ms of calls
📖
🎥
👾
> pip install inference
in the car for eight hours; welcoming friends and strangers to call my Google Voice: 515-423-0540
can talk:
💻 remote YC
🌽 how 2020 corn yields are looking
🏒 hockey analytics
🥇 optimal Catan strategies
🧠 GPTeam - Long term memory for agents
🗣️ ChadGPT - Interact + post on Nostr
🩺 Citation Needed - Validates medical claims with PubMed
🐕 Robot Dog - Using Meta's SAM + ChatGPT to navigate
💲Gandalf - FP&A analysis on GSheets
🌦️ What The Hail - Use weather context in prompts
Computer vision is accelerating cancer research, protecting endangered species, and making board games more fun to play.
And we’re still in the “pets .com” era of machine vision.
@MayaBodnick
🎯
debate was the most formative part of my education — and helped pay my tuition.
kritiks weren’t negative value. reading Zizek and Wilderson was thought-provoking.
but 67% (!) of rounds ignoring the resolution is less educational, especially the aff.
thanks for writing.
seated next to someone that is visually impaired on my flight.
We're trying out computer vision models (CLIP, BLIP2, docTR) to describe photos. also what GPT-4 vision will likely do. He's blown away at accessibility capability compared to screen readers.
The future is awesome.
The night time data science class I've been teaching with
@GA
at
@GA_DC
graduates tonight.
This thread will share their final projects. (DM if you'd like to be connected to a student to discuss)
The 2017 Nature paper on using machine learning to identify cancerous skin lesions from Stanford PhDs is now a high school hackathon project with
@replit
and
@roboflow
.
Started:
Going:
for the first time ever, neither brad nor i received any votes in Roboflow weekly employee recognition
and i could not be happier about this accomplishment
"Starting a programming language is like starting your own religion. In the beginning, everyone kind of ostracizes the weird guy way too obsessed with an outsider concept." -
@StefanKarpinski
Huge congrats, Stefan, and the whole Julia team. Wow.
We're excited to announce
@josephofiowa
, co-founder and CEO of
@roboflow
, as a speaker! He's presenting a talk called: Your LLM Can’t See (Yet): Foundation Vision Models
Join him Oct 8 - 10 in SF, or watch free online!
I'm happy to review your YC app. DM me.
We applied twice. The first time, we didn't get an interview. The second time, we joined the S20 batch.
The biggest difference (I think) was clarity in our writing. I'm no expert, but I'm happy to have a once over your app.
Snap CEO
@evanspiegel
: “I could use this!”
We built a tool for you to play chess with (or against) an AI Grand Master
#DisruptSF
We use computer vision to understand the state of the board in real time. Your phone shows you the next move.
Signup
VC making small talk “oh, grew up in Des Moines? I’ll invite my colleague that did too. might know them”
“we don’t all know each other you know”
colleague’s first question, “oh, Nelson? you know Grant Nelson? we debated against each other”
classic
I'm amazed
@mybinderteam
keeps costs to $0.03 / user / day. []
They empower open science and lower (nearly eliminate) the barrier to trying data science. Educators and practitioners alike should love them. Try it: