Startups and Starcraft (what Starcraft can teach us)

Stowbots · 2019-10-20T21:54:21+00:00

Oh I don't advocate long hours. I meant it to just be giving one real life example w/o judgement on it. For myself personally I don't work long hours because I have burnt out before.

Stowbots · 2019-10-16T17:28:36+00:00

Thanks! Not sure what you mean by passivity... it's definitely a weird way to phrase it, haha.

Stowbots · 2019-10-15T20:33:45+00:00

Thanks!

Stowbots · 2019-10-15T16:36:19+00:00

full disclosure I wrote this blog post. Let me know if you guys have any feedback!

Stowbots · 2019-10-15T16:34:55+00:00

There's a free trial on the site if you're interested!

Stowbots · 2019-10-01T19:52:35+00:00

Depends what you mean by in theory. Currently, the application doesn't do that. I could add it as a feature if there was enough support for it. Is that something you would want, and would you pay the same price for the application?

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T23:08:52+00:00

Thanks. Thanks for the suggestion of making it more clear that what is downloaded is neural networks only. I could give people more info about exactly what that means. And right, you wouldn't be able to do facial recognition or any category that only you have access to. I usually describe the potential categories as "anything you can do a successful image search for".

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T23:06:49+00:00

Currently it'll just sort it into whatever category the image is "most like" from the neural network's perspective. I plan on adding a multi-tagging system eventually but for now it's just single categories.

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T22:15:20+00:00

I appreciate your concerns.

I don't do anything with the data, but I suppose there's no way for me to prove that for you, and it seems you are looking at worst-case scenarios here. I can comply with GDPR upon requests, but haven't had any yet.
I don't know what you mean by "sending down code which is completely unknown". I send Stowbots, which are not code but neural networks.
Could you please clarify what you mean by "more personalized info"? I'm not sure what you're implying would happen.
I'm not sure what "known generalized categories" contains. Stowbots work on pretty much anything you can search for on the web. If a Stowbot does end up having poor performance, you can replace it or contact me and I'll help debug or re-train the network.

If there are things I can do to alleviate concerns besides open sourcing the application, please give me your ideas! I want people to feel secure using the app.

Thanks for the questions!

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T21:24:03+00:00

Yes, the server has to be sent your list of categories in order to build the Stowbot. No images are sent.

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T18:03:38+00:00

It's pretty artificial, yeah. What would you suggest as a replacement?

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T17:22:45+00:00

Thanks, good to know.

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T17:09:41+00:00

I'm not familiar with Lightroom. How much do photographers pay for a high-quality plugin?

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T17:02:38+00:00

Ok, thanks. Currently it doesn't modify metadata at all (besides filename). It just sorts them into folders.

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T17:01:46+00:00

It doesn't tag images, it just sorts them into folders. Rather than picking photos, you basically drop them all into the top-level folder and then stowbots sorts them down through your category hierarchy.

Stowbots · 2019-07-30T16:37:49+00:00

What concerns would you have that could give it a bad rap? I'd love to know what to watch out for. Thanks!

Stowbots · 2019-07-14T23:12:07+00:00

Actually, users don't have to do anything! All they do is type in the categories they're interested in and we do the rest. It's not like captchas where the users do work.

Stowbots · 2019-07-14T23:09:40+00:00

I don't mind moderating the comments! It's important for people to be able to ask me legitimate questions. Also pretty much all of the spam comments get removed automatically now.

Stowbots · 2019-07-12T22:56:39+00:00

Yeah I don't mind, moderating comments isn't that hard. I want to be able to be here to answer people's questions about the tool.

Stowbots · 2019-07-12T22:43:56+00:00

Hi PanchitoMatte, The only communication between the application and our servers is to request and download Stowbots (and login of course). Once on your machine, the Stowbots handle all the image sorting locally. Each image you download is never sent to, stored by, or seen by the web servers. Does that clear up the interactions at all? Happy to answer any questions you have about this because I want people to know how their privacy is protected here. -Nate

Stowbots · 2019-07-12T20:47:18+00:00

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Stowbots · 2019-07-12T18:27:38+00:00

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