AskMyClass is using Amazon Alexa and Google Home speakers as a teaching assistant in elementary schools. I am actually impressed at how many ways this one is horrible. Automating away teaching jobs with surveillance and AI for small children is
YC https://goaskmyclass.com
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BHRD is basically Salesforce for the "investor storytime" business model, where you need to keep track of just which ears to whisper your sweet business promises into. https://bhrdglobal.com
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"Four Growers predicts it can replace at least four human laborers [who in US agriculture are likely to be migrant workers living in appalling conditions, and now in real fear of their lives under Trump] with its robots, representing incredible economic efficiencies for growers."
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"Mac’d is a build-your-own mac and cheese restaurant...plans to expand through a low-cost “ghost kitchen” approach, where it rents out kitchen space and sells strictly through providers like UberEats, Caviar, DoorDash and Postmates." MaCaaS!
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Another debt collection startup! "Prodigal Technologies wants to make debt collection, if not kinder or gentler, then certainly more efficient. If a payor misses a payment, lenders can reach out on any messaging platform and find borrowers where they are."https://www.prodigaltech.com
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And YC is now also offering payday loans for freelance workers: http://www.getoxygen.com/freelancers-struggle-to-secure-credit-heres-a-solution-to-bank-on/ …
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Tune in tomorrow for the exciting conclusion of "Black Mirror During A Writer's Strike", when 63 more of these man-child fever nuggets drop at YC Demo Day
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I thought that was a movie with Ethan Hawke.
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