I don’t do AI professionally but as a hobby, so this may not be the best way. But the way you described, it seems the user maybe taking the picture a bit further away and there may be other objects in the frame. So you may want to look into some sort of segmentation or have bounding box. This could help the user make sure they are looking at documents for the correct machine.
I think something like detectron2 [1] could help. It is Apache2 license, so commercial friendly. That said the pre-trained weights may not be commercial friendly, so you’ll want to check on that.
Also fast.ai course [2] is a good starting point to understand the basics. If you are pressed for time, just go through Lesson 1.
Yep, that's the one I meant - sorry, should have linked.
His series on making a GPT from scratch is also great for building intuition specifically about text-based generative AI, with an audience of software developers.
I find going to conferences helpful. I went to a few and found potential customers and more importantly other businesses that became new sales channels.
Depending on your personality you may or may not want to setup a booth. I’m a technical founder and not comfortable approaching people, so having a booth and people wanting to find out more about my SaaS helped establish new relationships and sales.
Definitely. I'm also more a technical founder profile than not, and it takes real work for me to try to "sell", which is ironic, right? I (obviously) love this app, but to try and actively "sell" it someone directly. Gasp.
I've been making headway on that front too, though. A lot of content Alex Hormozi has been producing on sales + lead-gen has been really helpful to me on both a tactical level as well as a mindset level about these sorts of things.
This gets back to what I consider to be part of the "spiritual" side of the entreprenurial journey: facing my fears, slaying some dragons, etc.
+1 to file a complaint with CFPB. Chase closed my account and for two months I was visiting local branches and calling them, and nothing happened, just end less calls and explaining the situation again.
I filed with CFPB, and situation resolved automatically in about two weeks.
Microsoft, I have a wireless sculpt keyboard + mouse. The mouse scroll wheel stopped working 2 years in. I called MS support and they sent me a full replacement (keyboard + mouse) at no cost.
Chic-filla - made an online group order for about $60, they forgot to include an item of <$10 value. Called and they gave a refund for the full order.
Microsoft blocked me after I purchased a gift card for my nephew. So I will never be able to buy a gift card from them again… The support couldn’t do anything about it. I can live with that but it definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.
In the US, 911 calls are automatically routed to nearest PSAP [0] which has a real number. In the event a user originated 911 call gets disconnected, the number 911 agent calls you from will be a local number. For this reason phones and networks cannot block incoming calls.
