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Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US Latino Focushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32437234Hey HN! We are Piero and Luis, co-founders at Pana (https://joinpana.com), a banking app that uses social trust to help people save money and access healthier and better financial products. We’re open to everyone, but are focusing on the 62M Latinos in the USA, a particularly under-served market that we know a lot about.US Hispanics have largely been ignored by traditional banks [1], resulting in 5% of this population being unbanked and an additional 13% underbanked. This is mainly due to cultural differences and lack of trust, as well as in-person and Social Security Number requirements that exclude a significant number of people.Why is this market under-served? In Latino communities, a lot of transactions take place within family and personal networks based on trust. But this trust network isn't connected to the standard banking system, and therefore they don't get access to the financial products they should, if their creditworthiness were evaluated properly.In addition to remittanc
Aug 12, 2022 12:07 PM
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Show HN: Programmatic – a REPL for creating labeled datahttps://programmatic.humanloop.comHey HN, I’m Jordan cofounder of Humanloop (YC S20) and I’m excited to show you Programmatic — an annotation tool for building large labeled datasets for NLP without manual annotation.Programmatic is like a REPL for data annotation. You: 1. Write simple rules/functions that can approximately label the data 2. Get near-instant feedback across your entire corpus 3. Iterate and improve your rules Finally, it uses a Bayesian label model [1] to convert these noisy annotations into a single, large, clean dataset, which you can then use for training machine learning models. You can programmatically label millions of datapoints in the time taken to hand-label hundreds.What we do differently from weak supervision packages like Snorkel/skweak[1] is to focus on UI to give near-instantaneous feedback. We love these packages but when we tried to iterate on labeling functions we had to write a ton of boilerplate code and wrestle with pandas to understand what was going on. Building a dataset programm
Apr 8, 2022 11:35 AM
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Show HN: FURE – Free Ridesharehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611380Hello Hacker News! We’re Rudy & Roby we are the founders of FURE (https://fure.cab/). We are full-stack rideshare advertising agency that provides real-time data on free rides, for feedback on ads shown while enroute. A new solution for advertisers to analyze live feedback of ads from 10 riders to 1 billion riders in 10 seconds. Since its inception, the rideshare industry has become a problem for two primary groups. First, the security one of its primary stakeholder – the rider. The rider at all financial levels has become a victim of surge pricing, in-cab assaults, long waits, and the lack of standardized protection for the community. Second is the welfare of the human capital involved– the driver. The driver became a number, to the cost of being assaulted by a rider, to market fuel costs and the cost of not having benefits to service by choice, or voice.Today, people and media are constantly talking about the problems facing our industry. We believe the industry wasn’t built for the
Mar 9, 2022 6:02 AM
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How Square is Becoming a Fintech Game Changerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88df557cc148b1ae13d0fab453b39c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smallbusinesscomputing.com%2Fnews%2Fsquare-fintech%2F&c=12270425206929812698&mkt=en-usSquare has been making big waves in the fintech industry lately. You might know Square as the brainchild of Jack Dorsey (yes, co-founder and CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey) and Jim McKelvey that has been ...
Aug 23, 2021 7:25 AM
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A Guide To Low-Code/No-Code Development Platforms In 2021http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a895b353b2d43ce83e18bc41bebeb83&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fcouncils%2Fforbesbusinesscouncil%2F2021%2F07%2F30%2Fa-guide-to-low-codeno-code-development-platforms-in-2021%2F&c=16461039234013036567&mkt=en-usVladimir Lugovsky is the Co-Founder and CEO of digital product development agency Akveo and low-code SaaS startup UI Bakery. It’s important to understand that low-code development is the logical ...
Jul 30, 2021 11:04 AM
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Blue Origin reveals fourth crew member for Bezos spaceflighthttps://spaceflightnow.com/2021/07/15/blue-origin-reveals-fourth-crew-member-for-bezos-spaceflight/An 18-year-old Dutch student will joint Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark and aviation pioneer Wally Funk next Tuesday when they blast off aboard the Amazon founder’s New Shepard rocket for its first sub-orbital flight to space with passengers on board.
Jul 15, 2021 10:21 PM
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Ask HN: What is your favorite innovative company?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563497Would look to hear your thoughts on this. I have 3 main ones: • Stripe - they’ve been non stop launching new great products and the founders have an amazing vision of the company; • Tesla - wether you like Elon Musk or not, everyone can agree on how impressive it is for a 5-door sedan to have the fastest acceleration of any production car in the world; • Lilium - This is still a moonshot company but if they’re able to meet the targets of having flying cars operational by 2025 it’ll completely transform the mobility sector.
Jun 19, 2021 7:16 PM
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Launch HN: PingPong (YC W21) – Video messaging for remote teamshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26377761Hi HN,I'm Jeff, co-founder and CEO of PingPong (https://getpingpong.com), where we help remote teams collaborate and stay connected by exchanging video, voice, and screen recordings asynchronously. Think of it as Marco Polo or Snapchat (sans ephemerality) for globally-distributed product teams.We got the idea from our own experience on a different startup. Murphy, the co-founder and CTO, lives in Nigeria, and I live in the US (Utah). We had five other team members spread across three countries and four time zones. The problem for me as a team leader was how to share my ideas, feelings, and updates in a way that felt authentic and conveyed energy. I felt like I was spending my entire life either typing in Slack or scheduling Zoom calls at terrible hours. I had been kicking around the idea for our product in my head for months. At some point, I began thinking more about how to improve communication for distributed teams than what I was working on. In February 2020, after my second child
Mar 7, 2021 5:30 PM
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Launch HN: PostEra (YC W20) Medicinal Chemistry-as-a-Service and Covid Moonshothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23700275Hey everyone! We’re Alpha, Matt and Aaron, co-founders of PostEra (https://postera.ai/). The title above is quite a mouthful (we used all 80 characters) so we'll begin by breaking down what it means.What is medicinal chemistry? It’s part of discovering new drugs. A drug hunter decides what disease to focus on and then selects ‘targets’: usually proteins whose activity is key to the disease. Then they look for a molecule that can ‘hit’ that target and stimulate a response which will hopefully have beneficial effects. Developing such a molecule that is potent and safe is medicinal chemistry.Despite it being a crucial part of drug development, this field has relied on trial-and-error approaches—a very expensive way to muddle toward a drug. Where computational tools have been used, they have emphasized the 'best' designs without any awareness of what it would take to physically make the drug in a lab and test it. Our approach is to apply computational methods that know how to make these de
Jul 1, 2020 11:27 AM
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Launch HN: Stir – Government Procurement as a Servicehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21381411Hey HN!I'm Jay Nath, founder of STIR (https://www.cityinnovate.com).STIR is a digital platform that connects the world’s most innovative tech companies with governments to solve challenges over 16 weeks. At the end of the 16 weeks governments can choose to go into contract with the startups (nearly 80% get a contract). Our key innovation is streamlining govt procurement by 10X: govts can issue an RFP in days vs months/yrs and startups can respond in hours vs days/weeks of effort.I created STIR when I worked for the Mayor of San Francisco to help close the innovation gap between cities and private-sector. It never ceased to amaze me how many of workflows and services were paper-based or put together using a MS Access database and yet we're surrounded by so much tech talent.My vision was to help catalyze the growth of the govtech ecosystem by creating startup-friendly contract opportunities. Something that was really important to me was ensuring that governments articulated their pain po
Oct 28, 2019 8:41 PM
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Safe Schools Initiative – An app attempting to prevent school shootingshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19900903Disclaimer: Safe Schools Initiative (SSI) is a customer of my company Hatch Apps. I believe in their mission to use software to save lives so thought I'd share the story with the HN community:As a response to many of the recent school shootings, SSI is using a mobile app to address the growing nationwide epidemic. The app is a mobile-first community of students, parents, teachers, and law enforcement to crowdsource information and resources to prevent the next school shooting.The thesis of the app is to prevent school shootings by combining software with existing initiatives— users of the app can report violence, speak to law enforcement via chat, and connect with each other real-time in groups.The non-profit is currently working on a pilot with schools in Orange and Seminole County in Florida, as well as Baltimore City Public Schools.The founder is Chris De Ruyter, an active duty Army Lieutenant Colonel stationed at FT. Meade, MD. He founded the 501(c)3 after watching the news of the
May 13, 2019 4:29 PM
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Ask HN: How good are the local startup scenes in Lisbon and Sofia?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638815I'm a solo founder and my startup is beginning to get some momentum. To capitalise on this I've decided it's time to move ops out of my spare bedroom and in to a more dynamic environment. Main goal for moving: increase my chances of bumping in to like minded people and finding a co-founder / first hire.I've narrowed the choice down to Lisbon or Sofia (having started with London, Paris, Barcelona, Sofia and Lisbon) and would love to hear the experiences of any HNers who have spent time in either city - especially if it was while bootstrapping your own startup (or working for someone else's)!Things I'd love to know: quality, size and diversity of local talent; quality of local accelerators and investors; how easy/hard it is to find (good) people that want to take a risk and work for an early stage startup; friendliness of the local startup scene.My pros for Sofia:- Betahaus co-working space- Fantastic cost of living (~30% cheaper than Lisbon - which itself is already cheap)- Lovely city,
Nov 27, 2015 9:01 PM
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HIRING/RECRUITNG: Software Geniushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6230913Look, we are a growing consulting and product firm. We are looking for a person that can take our founder's (my) architect role and help make the company succeed while I am out whoring/selling us as needed. We build some awesome products, focused on mostly the e-commerce and big-data space. Far more on really hard big-data than anything, but e-commerce interests us as a unique opportunity.We have an amazing group of people in Florida. Of which we have one person that could step into this role, frankly you would likely compete with them, but in a positive way. But because we aren't stupid, it seems logical to look at people smarter than ourselves. If you have interest, we want to talk. We aren't funded, we are bootstrapped. Which frankly means there is an opportunity that is usually unfounded. We are looking at Angles over the next 6-9 months, but frankly want to see if we can make it without them. Not because they are bad, but because we believe in our team and that our team should win
Aug 18, 2013 12:07 AM