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@vertti the startup builds machine learning solutions for various industries. We have customers from a professional sports team to large industrial companies.
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@vertti we use R for most machine learning, but use Node and hapijs for orchestration.
The customer part is tough, but my advice is that you have to watch the pulse of the customer and be willing to pivot. We've pivoted a few times. -
Ok cool, I got a friend doing R and I'm thinking about picking up some (more) Elixir and try some simple machine learning stuff with it
Thanks for the feedback regarding customers. Although what I do is just try to get users, I don't expect any revenue anytime soon, if ever. 😅
However, what you said about pivoting applies just as much regardless
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