BitLit

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by BitLit 5y ago
File this project under: the engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think about if they should.
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by BitLit 5y ago
Indeed. And Prince Rupert is probably an outlier since it has almost everything going for it in terms of ship-to-shore efficiency. With a population is ~12k, road traffic rounds to zero. This also shows that a large population isn’t require
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by BitLit 5y ago
Apropos the importance of building new container shipping ports in places that don’t have land scarcity, traffic, and well organized NIMBYs? Let me introduce you to the port of Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia. The port of Prince
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by BitLit 5y ago
Years ago I was making a pitch to USV... the startup I was pitching was publishing related, and out of the blue one of the partners (Brad) asked me what order I read my Economist in? I paused to think and answered that I read front to back
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by BitLit 11y ago
Would have been great if the pic was high enough resolution that we could have actually done computer vision on it... Kamil had to be an mTurk for a day and transcribe the book spines by hand.
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by BitLit 11y ago
Cool! That's be a super easy feature for us to add. We're on it.
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by BitLit 11y ago
I'm the app's developer, so I'll chime in here. The deals we have with publishers require that the book can't be returned to a bookstore. Having to write in your book isn't the only option though -- we do allow user
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by BitLit 11y ago
Cool, idea... what if we made a reverse lookup, so you could search in the app for the book and we could show you the picture of your shelf with the book highlighted. Thoughts?