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iainmerrick · 2017-09-06 15:08:58+00:00

Sounds interesting!

But a quick search sent me to https://iota.org, and oh my gosh, that website is impossible to use. Uninterruptable animations and completely broken scrolling. Oh well.

EDIT to add: suddenly I'm reminded of "For the love of God, please tell me what your company does" from the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15170182). Probably the incomprehensible website means Iota is aimed at big businesses, not individuals.

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rsljtw91 | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2015-10-30 19:30:47+00:00

I'm not sure what exactly this is yet, but it seems kind of interesting. Is anyone familiar with the company that's behind it? (AdMobilize) http://www.iotforeveryone.com/

quocble | karma 24 | avg karma 0.62 · | 2017-11-09 18:06:34+00:00

Said by the company that uses .io

nightski | karma 6955 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2023-01-19 16:52:21

It's a large boring company. Bring on the Salesforce Show HN's lol. The link you reference makes it sound like it should come from a single person who is hacking something together and wants to share it.

krobertson | karma 641 | avg karma 2.95 · | 2012-11-21 16:07:58+00:00

Anyone have a link to their website or anything? Talk about a horrible name for a startup, simply cannot even find it.

ramijames | karma 835 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2021-12-31 09:50:39

Ultra.io is the company.

staticelf | karma 2501 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2021-03-03 16:08:30+00:00

Cool, never heard of it and visiting their website it is not exactly clear to me what their product is.

I have never quite understood how companies just have a single landing page with no publically available product or service (as it seems) and still get bought for several hundred millions.

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bobosha | karma 724 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2014-01-08 05:22:08+00:00

Have you looked at http://enigma.io/? They won TC Disrupt last year

TrackerFF | karma 7059 | avg karma 4.33 · | 2024-03-31 12:35:31

I don't understand - what is the moat to these companies?

I head over to their website: https://www.cognition-labs.com/

It's just a landing page. Some information about Devin, their main (only?) product:

https://www.cognition-labs.com/introducing-devin

Have they trained their own network? Is it a fine-tuned version of something else? Is it just some interface against another LLM?

Is it just some startup that's waiting to get acquired, based on hype and valuation alone?

So many questions.

EDIT: The article is paywalled, so can't read it.

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nwh | karma 5848 | avg karma 3.22 · | 2013-01-14 21:41:58+00:00

It joins a growing list of startups that can't seem to describe themselves. Its pretty, but I too have no idea what service they provide.

tempestn | karma 12792 | avg karma 3.12 · | 2022-03-02 17:25:11

Huh, it's the physical world version of building a single product company on top of an unsupported API.

uptown | karma 76445 | avg karma 11.62 · | 2018-08-07 16:16:33+00:00

This thread analyzes the company providing the technology:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1026603800365330432.html

It's not pretty.

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mxstbr | karma 2861 | avg karma 5.52 · | 2017-03-14 17:17:16

If you're talking about Exponent, this the same company. They rebranded recently, see https://blog.expo.io/exponent-expo-b172fb6725a7?gi=922dca1bc...

robertw4774 | karma 2 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2022-06-20 18:31:20

Every.io sounds interesting. Except I have never heard of the company, there are misspellings on the webiste and the address is a mail drop in San Francisco. And nobody else ever heard of the company with zero links or information anywhere online. So they pay 4% APY but its a company nobody ever heard of.

Barrin92 | karma 32717 | avg karma 5.08 · | 2017-11-07 00:06:18

Omega literally sounds like an unmodified MaryTTS (http://mary.dfki.de/) that you can get up running with a few api queries

I am continuously amused how people turn these things into 100 million dollar businesses.

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danielweber | karma 12245 | avg karma 2.65 · | 2012-08-08 19:38:21+00:00

What in the world is this? Is there actually a start-up that exists to list what technologies it uses?

spenczar5 | karma 4531 | avg karma 6.58 · | 2022-02-08 01:20:19

This is pretty interesting/terrifying. Could you say more about the startup? At least its name?

exdsq | karma 3909 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2020-07-30 17:54:27

Weird, seeing this is Stephen Diehls company summary:

"Automate financial controls and processes in your corporate treasury with inter-company loans, virtual account management, powerful APIs and a distributed ledger made for financial audibility & compliance."

https://www.adjoint.io/

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noss | karma 524 | avg karma 2.4 · | 2009-05-03 21:34:52+00:00

Bah!

I thought it was an open source Google Bigtable project.

Noo, it is "Dot com meltdown survivor and restaurant reservation software company OpenTable".

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Thoreandan | karma 426 | avg karma 2.54 · | 2019-02-15 15:01:56+00:00

It's apparently owned by a UK company called Quality Nonsense - https://qualitynonsense.com/portfolio/digital-com/ - currently featuring such insightful content as "Error establishing a database connection".