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We're building an AI moving company! WHAT? Well, this article hopefully explains why we think moving is the single most powerful commercial moment in a person’s life. When you relocate, your housing, finances, daily routines, and spending habits all reset at once.

Amazon built the Everything Store. We’re building for the Everything Moment, using AI to bring transparency and trust to one of the most broken, chaotic industries out there.

Would love your thoughts!


While I don't like the blog title, many things said in there rang true for my company (MoveAI.com). We are building an AI-powered moving concierge that can orchestrate your relocation experience end-to-end.

We initially were developing a system that we had hoped could handle everything and eject any workflow issues to a human so the operations team could kick the machine. We were hoping to avoid an interface all together on the customer side.

After a few versions and attempts at building this system, we moved towards a traditional app where we focused on building a product people wanted and automate parts of it over time. But even the parts we automated needed an interface for customers to spot check our work. So we found a great designer.

...Before we knew it, we were building a traditional company, with some AI. The company is doing well and people love what we're building, but it's different than we imagined.

We still believe in the long term vision and promise of the technology, but the article is right, this isn't going to be an overnight process unless some new architecture emerges.

In the mean time, we're focused on helping people get from A to B easily using whatever means necessary, because moving f**ing sucks. If you're moving soon or know anybody who is, we'd be happy to help them. -P


Will it handle tracking out of frame?

i.e. if I stand in the center of my room and take a video of the room spinning around slowly over 5 seconds. Then reverse spin around for 5 seconds.

Will it see the same couch? Or will it see two couches?


I think it depends how long it is out of frame for, there is a cache that you might be able to tweak the size of.


Cool to see my hometown finally pulling in tech. Feel like Amazon coming to town and the VT investing in CS grads in the area is going to pay dividends long term.


Move AI | Founding Engineers | Full-time | Remote or SF | http://careers.moveai.com

Move AI automates the moving process. You have a busy life. ...and now that life needs to be somewhere else. Talk to us for 30 minutes and we'll handle everything for you, down to the smallest detail.

We are building a mobile app with a web-based admin backend. We use AI (vision & LLM's) to solve several time-consuming problems and to ensure a magical experience.

email phil@moveai.com whatever you think is relevant if you're interested.


I am starting one in person. It’s so much more efficient when it comes to getting things done. I’m sorry quality of life folks.


Plot hole: the F14 wasn’t listed as a cobra capable aircraft, only the F16


It’s not lab created. It’s entirely natural.


It's a random organism. While in itself it's natural, nothing about ingesting it by humans is natural.


Human consumption of a naturally occurring mushroom (food) that happens to contain psilocybin is absolutely a natural occurrence and as a result has a history of human consumption older than wine.


> Human consumption of a naturally occurring mushroom (food) that happens to contain psilocybin is absolutely a natural occurrence

Same could be said about death cap mushrooms. Something being natural or even being occasionally ingested doesn't make it any better. Natural, occasionally ingested organisms can kill you on the spot.


Except psilocybin-containing mushrooms are edible, death caps are not.


Edible just means it doesn't kill you immediately at doses you can fit in your stomach.


Everything we consume is some random organism.


My point exactly. Nothing is natural for humans except for perhaps some tree fruits from Africa.

So saying "it's natural" is bs.


You have canine teeth for eating meat instead of tree fruits. Your body can also extract nutrients from this fungus versus merely passing it like if you ate some wood or something else entirely non-nutritious. You might be one of those people who are able to process lactose effectively. None of these things are unnatural to our species if we have natural mutations in our population that confer these adaptions.


> You have canine teeth for eating meat instead of tree fruits.

Probably not cows and pigs though. Maybe sobe birds. Maybe monkeys. Raw. Also no significant natural resistance to salmonella.

I'm sure I have exactly as much genetic adaptations to eating psylocybin mushrooms as I have for eating death caps.


Happy to discuss my strategies over a 15 min call if you’re up for it. I’ve gotten decently good at figuring out what to look for when evaluating them.


I was there. Paying off student loans like a mf’er doesn’t leave a lot left over. Now I have no loans so it’s easier to save, however when you’re in a hole, the best thing to do is fill the hole.


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