Yeah, maybe. The issue I foresee is more that the moat is quite small if you can just build it, so the moat would need to exist in stuff that can't just be built and replicated within a few weeks or something. User base maybe, connections to real resources, some other form of deeper value you can't just copy. Not sure though; I'm not a business person
Ya this is basically what Im building. I dont know where the connections to real resources actually live though? Insurance? Lab Results? Wearables? EEG headsets?
For people that don't have these neat observability tools (like me), I've been using https://shellshare.net (disclaimer: I made it).
This is a single command to share a terminal live with e2e encryption. Originally it was for teaching classes or helping colleagues, but it's also very helpful for agents. I SSH into prod and run:
They can see the output live. No need to install anything in the agent's machine. Next shellshare version it will be just "monitor <URL>" and the agent's instructions will be in the URL itself.
Nothing even near what you've guys done, but it has been helpful for me. Best of luck in your startup!
On a side note, I find it interesting that a few recent projects are going for the Open Knowledge name. The Open Knowledge Foundation (https://okfn.org) is one of the first/largest proponents of the open data movement (think of it as a Free Software Foundation but for data, not software). They started in 2004 and developed many of the open data licenses and widely used infrastructure tools like CKAN (an open data portal platform).
OKFN and OKF are the same thing: "Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a global, non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data [--] founded by Rufus Pollock on 20 May 2004 [--] Between May 2016 and May 2019 the organisation was named Open Knowledge International"
Looks great! Just got a bit bummed about the pricing page. Our whole IT infrastructure costs $200/month, so "Enterprise-only" reads as "not for you" :/
The same company that supposedly views everything through the lens of liability and compliance does this:
> When the cars were operating under controlled laboratory conditions - which typically involve putting them on a stationary test rig - the device appears to have put the vehicle into a sort of safety mode in which the engine ran below normal power and performance. Once on the road, the engines switched out of this test mode.
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> The result? The engines emitted nitrogen oxide pollutants up to 40 times above what is allowed in the US.
The thing that works for baseball is how slow the game is. There's plenty of time in between pitches to make the animation simple. With sports with constant movement like a WC match would require a lot more resources. Might as well be a game engine at that point.
Watching one of these live just brings home exactly how low activity a baseball match is. You can easily miss a pitch if you're not actively watching it and keep your attention span on it. It also brings to mind how much the commentary during a game keeps the viewer engaged. Live video and a good director cutting to different cameras also helps. Radio with out the color would be insanely boring:
Here's the pitch, low and outside.Ball 1.
30 secs of silence.
Here's the pitch, fast ball down the middle. Swing and a miss. Count is now 1-1.
Football MIGHT be slow enough that you could animate the plays Techmo Bowl style.
It would certainly be fun to attempt it. You might have to mix in some pre-defined animations for "run up the middle", that could do minimal updates like Jersey numbers.
The gamecast from places like ESPN already have a good enough version for American Throwball games. It works because it is slow enough so they can show play by play with animation showing the progress of each play. While it's not pixel art it is more than sufficient to have in a window to have open in the background.
Only if we can watch historical games from the late 80s of the LA Raiders, and then 5% of the time, it animates Bo Jackson running actual circles around the defense.
For sure. And agree it wouldn't work as well for active sports like soccer or basketball.
Have some ideas on how to make this a bit more engaging for baseball, still. But ultimately it isn't really made for active viewing or to replace a live broadcast. I think of this more for the fan who wants to keep it on in the background or on the TV while they work or multitask.
Perfect to have on while you are on a call or otherwise can’t have audio playing. If the audio isn’t a distraction, I’d rather put the radio on or a tv game with the audio lower than I’d have it if I were actively watching.
But I love this idea and it brings back memories of my first baseball video games. Someone else mentioned Earl Weaver. My friends and I spent an entire summer playing almost nothing else.
I am the CTO of a small NGO (10 people total, only 1 other junior Dev at the time). We supported two apps that were built by consultants. They were a mess. NextJS, React, about 4 micro services for a site that had 50 users per WEEK.
I configured a devcontainer with the old codebase and an empty repository and asked Claude to rewrite it as an old school server side rendered Django app.
Went to sleep. When I woke up it was 80% done. Spent another couple days prompting and reviewing and reached feature parity.
A bit later did the same with the other app.
Now both are deployed, reduced the server costs, complexity, and are orders of magnitude faster.
Without AI agents we wouldn't be able to do so (as usually is the case with tech debt).
I wasn't involved at the time, so don't know. I just know that the cost was significant given the NGO budget, not only the initial development but also the ongoing support.
I feel as if we lifted an anchor that was slowing us down.
