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Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
2 points by gizzlon on Jan 28, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I thought it would be interesting to hear about the software projects people are developing. It's amazing and inspiring to see what problems people are solving through software. So, what product or app have you developed or are you working on? It can be anything from a full-blown startup to a small side-project to a quick hack.

Please keep in relatively short.

(Old version of this question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378909 Copied some text from it because I'm optimizing for throughput:)



We (Fogbeam Labs[1]) specialize in open source software[2] related to knowledge sharing / collaboration / analytics and the like. Specifically we are working on a platform which combines machine learning, semantic web tech, "big data", social networking, etc. to support what we call "insight mining" within organizations.

Somebody once made an unsolicited comparison with Palantir and said "You guys are like Palantir for inside the enterprise". We never specifically set out to be like Palantir, but I guess that's a relatively valid way of talking about what we do.

That said, our long-term goal is to have a very broad portfolio of products to cover a huge swathe of the use cases a typical enterprise would need.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com

[2]: https://fogbeam.github.io


a marketplace for services. haven't totally narrowed down the focus. been focused on building the software and working on adapting to various areas. also, contemplating "franchising" areas out. Since most service markets are local seems like having an local entrepreneur could be a better way to manage the system over the long haul.




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