I am working on making grocery online shopping less overwhelming and more like a rolling list, you keep adding items as you see them (missing) in your household and it silently records it at the backend. When you are ready to pick up order, you push to qfc cart via api (a button) and boom your grocery shopping is done. No need of making lists and then one by one putting them on the cart. It works with any QFC or Kroger store because to my disbelieve they actually have an open sku and cart api. Grateful to Kroger to be tech forward. Free to use , here is the link https://www.ddisco.com/sonic/customer My wife is hooked on it as she had to take time in the week to sit down ask me what to order and then build the cart. Now it’s like just typing in what you need.

Next I am making the version for folks who do not make a list and just go with past orders , for them I am automating so the cart is made based on past orders like milk usually is ordered every 2 weeks.

Totally tangent, a startup get promoted to getting funded if the business model is simple. May be opt for a startup.

Waymo is the answer to all our problems

Why are we not focussing on rocket based travel so we can finally do 90 mins from Seattle to London :)

Spacex and blue origin has already demonstrated heavy payload transport, why can we just move to this than work on supersonic

Happy New Year HN! Grateful for the insights I get every morning from fellow humans through the comments.

This year I sold my company, for a while I thought I will die with it. This year has been brutal in some ways, tackling lots of daemons and getting through them.

Wishing everyone a great new year celebrations with friends and family.

Love you HN.

To me it was Django that made python a choice of language to develop on. On top of it , not dealing with pointers of c++ made it much simpler to use.

Grateful for Meta to release models and give the GPU access for free, it has been great for experimenting without the thinking overhead of paying too much for inference. Thank you Zuck.

https://www.produceapp.ai/ For 2 If you ever want to chat about 2, i would love to say hello

Impressive and a good mission startup! How did you get workday, peoplesoft etc. to give the data to you? I assume all these companies do not like to share data, since as someone else also pointed out that each of these system of records are adding AI capabilities and bundling them.

Appreciate the kind words. You’re right that the big SIS and ERP vendors are building their own AI features, but at the end of the day institutions own their data and expect interoperability across systems. Workday, PeopleSoft, and similar systems all provide APIs or integration layers that schools already use for reporting and warehousing.

Where those systems are more closed, we work with the institution to find creative but still sanctioned paths such as through their integration hub or data warehouse. That way we are not asking the vendor for special access, just making better use of the plumbing that is already there.

Would be great to understand topics from family via AI (givem all the interviews are fed there) that they can’t discuss face to face