Readit Newsmorsanu commented on How product teams should set deadlines dana11235.medium.com/how-... · Posted by u/dlevine
Arbitrary deadlines are only valuable as checkpoints to review work done and plan ahead. Using them as a timeframe to finish some tasks shows that you don't really understand estimates.
morsanu commented on Ask HN: Do you consider Hacker News to be a positive/useful use of your time? · Posted by u/throwawaynay
I'm browsing HN everyday, but only once. I look at the first page, open the titles that seem interesting in new tabs and that's it. Sometimes I go into the comments and read some opinions about some topic.
I also read the good titles I missed during the week in the newsletter on Saturday morning.
I keep up to date about new technologies and directions, I think that helps me adding context to my managerial decisions.
Nobody cares that this is just an ad? It's got too many paragraphs of bullshit filler for something that's basically "they're taking pictures and counting the pearls using machine learning".
Of course we are trying to promote our business, writing some case studies is one way to do it.
But I shared this here not because I thought we will get clients from HN (probably we will be getting some competition instead) but because I thought it's an interesting application of technology that people would enjoy reading about.
Maybe we don't see things the same way but even learning about the manual process of counting pearls was interesting for me.
How did you come up with the pricing strategy. I imagine some big companies might pay more if they can save lot of money with this.
We iterated through different ideas and numbers. It's not an easy task, I can tell you that.
We also try to have a good variety of choices: enterprise license, yearly, monthly or even packages of 24h.
And we also have some free demo counting template, you don't need a license while using them. Including one to help people involved in the vaccination process: https://countthingsqanda.com/?p=1587
Is not it something anyone can do for free using image J with a bit of scripting.
If you have the skills, you should definitely try it.
We have a full team working on this for about 7 years. Constant improvements to our algorithms, new challenges, new technologies. A ton of other functionalities besides counting (e.g. forms, reports, integration). A lot of work on the backend, UX. Also, a lot of sales and marketing involved.