Is there a travel bidet that falls into the same category in terms of the quality ? I have tried many but nothing works at the same level as tushy and thought i would make one myself! Would anyone from this community buy one if I made a very strong force bidet thats portable ?
This is so so huge and one where a tech ten years ago had an incredible interest and since then the companies started folding and only waymo survived. That's vision..10x
You have to think of this as an entire system. The arm is necessary but not sufficient. An "arm" could be as simple as small servos and popsicle sticks [0]. In the case of ALOHA, below is an outline of the basic components.
* arms (aka follower arms)
- effector (i.e. gripper)
- sensors (i.e. cameras, depth sensors, specced Intel RealSense D405)
- gravity compensation (so the relatively delicate servos aren't overloaded)
* controller
- runs Robot Operating System (ROS [1]) plus other software (i.e. arm, gripper interfaces [2])
- runs ALOHA model in inference to tell ROS what to do based on task and sensor input
- trains ALOHA models using arm motion encoder and ACT: Action Chunking with Transformers [4]
* leader arms
- motion encoders (essentialy an arm in reverse that can be used by a human to telecontrol the arm to encode motions into model training)
The system at this point is "research grade" which is at once expensive due to custom/nice materials/units and not super user friendly--you must know a lot. See the build instructions [5].
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If I had to hazard a guess this might be a cost-cutting measure on Stripe's part similar to cuts on content marketing that other companies have done. DigitalOcean divested from CSS Tricks [0], and there was an article earlier today about Amazon shutting down DPReviews [1]. Maybe the Stripe founders gave the IndieHackers folks a chance to spin it off again as opposed to shutting down.
The two founders/employees probably cost $600k/year and at this point, Stripe is so well established that IndieHackers sponsorship probably doesn't move the needle much on Stripe adoption anymore. They probably just mutually agreed to cut ties and the founders will have control over their own revenue / income.
$300k each sounds high. I don't believe they had reports. It was its own fiefdom. Probably closer to ~$200k. I don't believe they are Bay Area–based, either, where 300 might make more sense.
A stripe software engineer in the US is easily making $300k, including equity, unless they’re a new grad. Add another 10-15% for their benefits and total cost to Stripe.
It seemed like a standard acquisition / acqui-hire. Buy out the business, Stripe owns it, the employees are paid like Stripe employees. Access to codebase is tangential, big tech co codebases are already very segmented off into tons of repo's with different access permissions. Ultimately, this is just conjecture.
