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I work in the video streaming space and curious on others thoughts. Here's my wishlist though

1. WebTransport and WebCodec becomes the primary means for client to server real-time video delivery (e.g. compositing, off-device analysis)

2. No more vendor lockin with WebRTC (WHIP and WHEP might help here). Build a solution once on the client and if I don't like my provider just change the endpoint URL.

3. Google MediaPipe or a high level API on the browser to run AI models easily for audio / video. Right now it seems like most solutions for simple things like blurring are just minor abstractions on top of MediaStreamTrackProcessor.

4. Optimized headless browser for cloud rendering. Too many terrible solutions at the moment using CEF and chrome that then use ffmpeg or gstreamer, XVFB and pulseaudio.

5. Plug and play pipelines in the cloud for video processing (like zapier for video). I can plug in any processing I want in between the source and sink without a convulted mess of trying to push audio and video around to different apps either in network or across the internet.

For context, many of the online mentorship programs I've tried focus only on "growth hacking" and SEO. Throughout my software development career I've had mentors who helped coach me by understanding my needs, identifying my weaknesses and strengths, and just overall helpful growth discussions.

As a startup founder, I'm struggling to find a mentor like that. Any advice from other startup founders?

I've been tasked at work with training backend developers to be capable of writing high quality frontend code in react and redux (high quality as in maintainable, consistent patterns, follows ux designs). I've really struggled with this. The external team has produced low quality code quickly that required rewrites and long cycles in PR review.

I've tried implementing mentoring and pair programming but that seems to stick for particular use cases / features but there is a gap in general knowledge shown by repeating the same mistakes on future features.

I feel like there is a massive difference between accomplishing a feature vs being good at something.

Any advice or feedback would be really helpful, thanks.

I'm looking to build out a collection of sample (agriculture) crop yield maps from crop harvesters to test with software I'm building.

It's not incredibly easy to come by much of it so I was wondering if anyone happened to be aware of any datasets out there or universities that might have data available?

Thanks!

As title suggests I'm just genuinely interested if folks here try to grow things. Seem,s like hn has a good bit of folks from different regions. If so, what are you trying to grow and what are the conditions where you are trying to grow? (e.g. North Carolina where I'm from has clay soil and I'm growing peppers, tomatoes, and trying my hand at some tech around saffron)

I'm interested cause I'm in the agtech space and just trying to find folks who like to grow shit.

My company, forage.ai, is building a mobile solution for checkout.

I'd like to ask hacker news: Whats the worst part about checking out today and how do you solve that problem today?

I'm really interested in the problem of delivering personalized product feeds in Mobile and web apps to customers as part of my startup. I was considering starting with giving the ability for developers to drop in a code snippet, allowing users to customize what they want to see, and an easy way to publish new feed items.

I'm wondering would you use it? (why or why not)

If it would be a product you would consider paying for?

Thanks so much!

I'm looking to build a startup in this space since I'm genuinely interested. I'd love to learn what things people feel like are missing that would make work easier when working with other teammates (doesn't have to be technical).