Amazing work! I have been selling a product using a WhatsApp chatbot for some time now. iMessage would be a great addition to this so I will definitely get back to you once I find some more time to work on the project. Great work in getting this setup!
Amazing work on HFD! There is a lot happening in the space of mass-customization where I feel this fits right in!
We have a platform for automated sheet metal production and quoting. At the moment we only take completed 2D/3D technical drawings as an input although there is definitely a market for ordering parametric products too.
If you ever want to discuss the possibilities for HFD in the sheet metal industry let me know!
Hi everyone, I have removed the 2.99 payment from my postcard chatbot while the quarantines or my wallet last. Send a postcard to a friend or family member who is helping to fight the pandemic or who need some extra love in general!
After getting the question for a converter for AI, EPS and PDF files to SVG I have built a tiny demo using Inkscape and Ghostscript.
It seems however that although there is a ton of references online for the various conversions many of them are very outdated. I'm wondering if anyone used similar conversions in a production environment in the past and what approaches yielded the best results for them.
Had a similar iOS app years ago that would make chat groups with everyone in a 1km radius [1]. In the end our largest hurdle was getting enough users together per location.
WhatsApp has recently announced their plans for their API after a very long beta program (open to enterprise companies only). They will not be working directly with customers but have chosen 20+ partners through which their API will be available (e.g. Twilio).
At the time of building this project this was not yet available. And automating WhatsApp was somewhat of a hassle.
It’s definitely important! The addresses are stored for generating the postcard designs and shipping them to the recipient only.
The card is however printed by a third-party with whom we thus have to share the address details for shipping. From there on the is no additional privacy concernes compared to sending a postcard by hand.
None that I know of but it should be fairly easy in telegram. It perfect for chatbots! Integration with WhatsApp was the hardest part really. I know there used to be a version for Facebook messenger[1] though.
I completely agree chatbots can be slow at collecting information. In the case of Melon Post we look at rivaling the speed of a web form at least with orders to a previously used address. At this point, the benefit of being available from your message box and focus on simplicity will hopefully attract it's own little group of loyal customers!
In most cases various error messages for a certain position in the conversation are available. These messages are aimed at nudging the user back into one of the predefined conversational flows or to have them repeat their answer in a different format.
Something the bot still has trouble with is if the user sends a second reply before the answer of the bot is received.
Author here! One of my side projects nearing completion. Terms/Privacy statements are underway so please bear with me for now.
Looking for some advice on getting the dialog as fluid as possible (I'm using dialogflow on the back). Especially address parsing seems like a tricky field so any feedback on this would be most appreciated!
Looks like a great app you built! And love the idea of simply using a color overlay to visualize the difference.
You might want to also look at the verification of contracts as a target market. Often the addition of digital signatures or scanned pages will avoid md5 checksums to check for any tampering. Bacause you approach is visual it might be a great way to validate a contract has not been altered.
It’s a field in engineering where optimization is used to optimize a engineering design for a certain purpose (e.g. a beam for stiffness).
Topology optimization is the broader field that allows topological changes to the design (e.g. the addition or removal of nodes). These optimization’s often have a solution that first have to be interpreted by an engineer to turn it into a manufacturable design.
A shape optimization performs optimization only of certain variables of a predefined design. The splines as described here seems to fit well for describing for instance sheet metal parts or cross-sections of beams.
This will be amazing for shape optimization. As it seems one can describe various shapes with very little control points and parameters. Furthermore the relation between the control points and the final spline is very well behaved and thus great for use in an optimization. Great work!