Hey, we're at Haus in SF right now and wondered if anyone out there would help us out and want to grill us on our YC idea adifyit.com, our interview is Monday.
This is a very neat idea. A couple of questions come to mind:<p>Do you rely on an outside source for picture identification? If so, what's your plan if/when it fails? If not, do you plan to build your own in-house system?<p>Have you tested whether your code has any impact in page load speed (Y-Slow and company)?<p>Related to Q1, if you have your own in-house system, will you have your own database of pictures for feature extraction/matching, and how do you plan to make it large enough (and grow it fast enough) to accomodate the wide variety of pictures that people take and post?<p>I think that if you implement this well, you potentially have a real winner here. Best of luck to you!
Great concept - could be the future in advertising.<p>But like any ad network, how do you guys plan on keeping up with splogs (spam blogs) abusing your service ?
If you haven't yet, you could try answering some of the questions here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896121" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896121</a><p>Maybe answering them publically would get some feedback?<p>Best of luck.
Go to this thread below and grill yourself with these 34 questions.
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896121" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896121</a><p>You perhaps will find yourself where you are in the application.
By the way, the idea is cool. But does your algorithms advanced enough to distinguish between items that can be bought (commercials) compared to those can't (human face, nature photographs etc to example a few)?