BlobCity A.I. Cloud
AI
cloud notebook platform
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.35.
Design: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Enjoyed working with the team as a client
From 1 comment
Innovative solutions, innovative business model, quick response to change, clear thought process, great results. Enjoyed working with the team as client.
neerajgd on HN
Objections
Requires account creation before running notebooks
From 2 comments
I checked out your 1000+ GitHub projects I could explore. I clicked on the "Run" button. Immediately prompted to create an account. Immediately closed the tab.
gabereiser on HNI was kinda half expecting a few demos to just run without having to create an account to prove the value of your platform. If I have to create an account to figure that out, I’m…
gabereiser on HN
Required libraries like Pandas are missing out of the box
From 1 comment
Nice to see another player in the crowded hosted Jupyter notebooks space! Still very far from smooth (<10) click experience. The workflow took a while to get started: Manually…
sireat on HN
Unpaid freelancer allegation raised against the company
From 2 comments
I worked for blobcity as a freelancer 5 years ago, in May 2015. I worked for maybe a week or 10 days. Never got paid, they stopped replying back. Emails, whatsapp I messaged them…
codesnakers on HNSo 1. I’m glad this is the most upvoted comment in order to provide visibility and 2. I’m glad the founder wants to make it right apparently by having the alleged freelancer send…
whatl3y on HN
Claim of unlimited free compute seems implausible
From 1 comment
Truly unlimited free compute power? Something something strong claims. That must be the closest I've seen to a self refuting claim on here in a long time. Would love to hear more…
sixhobbits on HN
Requests
Allow running public cloudbooks without registration
From 1 comment
I was kinda half expecting a few demos to just run without having to create an account to prove the value of your platform. If I have to create an account to figure that out, I’m…
gabereiser on HN
Sort results by GitHub stars
From 1 comment
Search by text assumes that I'm looking for something specific. But it would be great if we could sort results by github stars, for people that are just window shopping. It would…
victor9000 on HN
Add GitHub topic filtering
From 1 comment
Search by text assumes that I'm looking for something specific. But it would be great if we could sort results by github stars, for people that are just window shopping. It would…
victor9000 on HN
Login with GitHub or Google
From 1 comment
Nice to see another player in the crowded hosted Jupyter notebooks space! Still very far from smooth (<10) click experience. The workflow took a while to get started: Manually…
sireat on HN
Questions
What would make users become loyal registered members?
From 1 comment
On related topic, what would you consider a good value proposition? Meaning what are the things you would expect out of BlobCity for you to become a registered and loyal member?
sanketsarang on HN
Alternatives named
Google Colab
From 1 comment
Nice to see another player in the crowded hosted Jupyter notebooks space! Still very far from smooth (<10) click experience. The workflow took a while to get started: Manually…
sireat on HN
myBinder
From 1 comment
Nice to see another player in the crowded hosted Jupyter notebooks space! Still very far from smooth (<10) click experience. The workflow took a while to get started: Manually…
sireat on HN