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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.
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#1
on HN: a hacker in New York is using roboflow to drop hats onto strangers below
the internet is beautiful
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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.
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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
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yes!
@evanspiegel
, Snap, Q2 2023
Yeah your product is cool, but are your customers' CEOs bragging about it on their earnings calls?
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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.
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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
⬇️
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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
- 120,000 players per week
- 7 requests per second
- Using OpenAI Clip
Lessons learned in multimodality by
@josephofiowa
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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
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VCs talk about value add
this quarter,
@DavidSacks
and the
@craft_ventures
Executive Briefing Center introduced us to a $325k land
Craft++
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back in my day, this was a seed round, and we were happy with it.
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ChatGPT has been a lot more helpful than Google on the farm today
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supervision has been trending on GitHub 6 days in a row
if you've not tinkered with computer vision, there's no time to get started like the present
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Students in Germany built their autonomous racing vehicle with Roboflow
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In 2015, I asked my boss at Instagram why he seemed to treat me so well
“In tech, you could be my boss next year”
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.
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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
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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
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🏡 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
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4,986 images (33%) of 15,000 in the Udacity open source self-driving car dataset had errors 😬
Relabeled and released. Safer streets. 🚗
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.
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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:
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pretty sweet to see tools our team work on have similar awareness to other open source libraries i love
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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
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@Austen
max value, not cash, minimal time: use the rear facing camera in your Zoom setup with Continuity or Camo Studio
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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
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a compilation of GPT vision experiments are trending:
- chat with your webcam:
- zero shot classification:
- distillation:
more here:
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🏥 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
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⭐️ 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…
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@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:
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📚 Find/summarize papers for any topic arxiv/SciHub by
@space_colonist
😵💫 Safety nightmare - Enable GPT to execute any terminal command
🗓️ Event planner - Ideate, plan, execute events
📝Diagram - Create eng diagrams from descriptions
🎼 Music - Creates playable MIDI chords!
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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:
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24hr following GPT-4V API release @ roboflow:
• new DAU record
• GPU quota exceeded
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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
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Segment Anything is incredibly powerful.
@roboflow
is the first fully hosted way to label with SAM. even fog! ☁️
@josephofiowa
@MetaAI
@roboflow
some smartass on the orange website asked: "sure SAM sounds great but does it handle FOG?"
@braddwyer
be like:
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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
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Roboflow is in the YC Summer 20 batch.
We're enabling every developer to use computer vision, without machine learning expertise.
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I hate when you get to the breakroom and all the food is taken
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🖼️ Image manipulation - Prompt to OpenCV methods
👀 VisualGPT - Use webcam to capture photos + visual Q&A w/BLIP
🛠️ CodeBot - Create code, send PRs (created a PR Chroma is going to accept!)
☎️ SMS - Twilio plugin for texting (send/receive)
📈Vizly - Data viz and Q&A w/ CSVs
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Palmer is a real one. comes to CES to walk the floor and see new tech; tag says “engineer”
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Another advantage Uber has over cabs: opportunities for all.
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🧠 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
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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.
Next on “Sacks on SaaS”, Roboflow founder/CEO
@josephofiowa
will join me to talk about the future of computer vision.
@getcallin
Thursday 3pm PT.
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@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.
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In the 2017
@kaggle
state of data science survey (n=16,000), the most used ML technique cited was logistic regression at 64%.
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can't name a single movie or TV show i've been anticipating more than this drop. 90min of computer vision gold
over 200 hours of work compressed into a 90-minute video
the football AI tutorial is finally out!
link to video:
↓ key takeaways
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still surprises me that caring (yes, giving an f) is a competitive advantage. and it’s one you can completely control
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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.
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Roboflow on the HN front page for inspiring others' content!
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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
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You: I bet getting around DC is hard on crutches
Me, an intellectual:
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"I'm huge in Japan"
It's somewhat surreal to see our customers send us presentations they're giving from all around the world.
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Seems like a good time to remind everyone which sweatshirt I wear when grilling
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Today
@matthewbrems
and I gave a talk at
#PyDataDC
on how
@FiveThirtyEight
creates their elections forecasts.
See:
🛠️ How
@NateSilver538
does it
📈 Bayesian stats 101 example notebook
✨ Build a
#Bokeh
dashboard
Slides, code:
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"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.
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"Pork tenderloin is a sandwich. Iowa is my kind of place." - Zuckerberg
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Let’s See.
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!
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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.
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Chipotle won't serve
#GMO
food, but the bigger story is the pro-science response
@VanceCrowe
http://t.co/7vHeGmXPib
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it's common to underestimate the quality of AI that originates from cornfields in Iowa.
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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
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currently on GitHub trending -
⭐️ 15 state-of-the-art computer vision models notebooks, tutorials, and videos.
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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
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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:
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