SEEKING FREELANCER | United States | Remote

I'm bootstrapping a project and looking for someone that can quickly build a CRUD iOS app using Swift, VisionKit and invoke REST APIs for backend integration. Its a basic app for a web application with the following features:

1. User Login + FaceID (no need for signup, password reset, etc)

2. CRUD operations on an item

3. Ability to take pictures and upload

4. Ability to run Vision operations like Text detection, OCR, etc on the image.

5. Upload data to backend via REST API including background upload.

6. Publish app to iOS app store

API will be provided for login and CRUD operations.

You'll be working with me (backend developer) to make it as close to production ready and publish to app store.

If you are interested please respond with rate and approximate start date and time required to build, my email in profile.

Edit: formatting

Nextnav (no affiliation) is trying to do something similar. https://nextnav.com/

Edit: not affiliated with the company

For backend this might help https://feathersjs.com. I’m not affiliated with them, just a happy user.

I don’t do AI professionally but as a hobby, so this may not be the best way. But the way you described, it seems the user maybe taking the picture a bit further away and there may be other objects in the frame. So you may want to look into some sort of segmentation or have bounding box. This could help the user make sure they are looking at documents for the correct machine.

I think something like detectron2 [1] could help. It is Apache2 license, so commercial friendly. That said the pre-trained weights may not be commercial friendly, so you’ll want to check on that.

Also fast.ai course [2] is a good starting point to understand the basics. If you are pressed for time, just go through Lesson 1.

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2

[2] https://course.fast.ai/

Edit: added fast.ai, grammar

Fast.ai course is just what I needed for now. Thank you.

Not sure if there is any policy prohibiting it, but you could try Upwork or fiverr. After they join you could hire them as a contractor.

I believe op means Intro to Large Language Model

https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?si=XQQ3p92ajuQYOyqN

Yep, that's the one I meant - sorry, should have linked.

His series on making a GPT from scratch is also great for building intuition specifically about text-based generative AI, with an audience of software developers.

I find going to conferences helpful. I went to a few and found potential customers and more importantly other businesses that became new sales channels.

Depending on your personality you may or may not want to setup a booth. I’m a technical founder and not comfortable approaching people, so having a booth and people wanting to find out more about my SaaS helped establish new relationships and sales.

Definitely. I'm also more a technical founder profile than not, and it takes real work for me to try to "sell", which is ironic, right? I (obviously) love this app, but to try and actively "sell" it someone directly. Gasp.

I've been making headway on that front too, though. A lot of content Alex Hormozi has been producing on sales + lead-gen has been really helpful to me on both a tactical level as well as a mindset level about these sorts of things.

This gets back to what I consider to be part of the "spiritual" side of the entreprenurial journey: facing my fears, slaying some dragons, etc.

+1 to file a complaint with CFPB. Chase closed my account and for two months I was visiting local branches and calling them, and nothing happened, just end less calls and explaining the situation again.

I filed with CFPB, and situation resolved automatically in about two weeks.

I had posted a bit more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013206

Since you already know react, you might want to try https://reactnative.dev

As someone else mentioned the difficult part is generating the marketing materials and the app review.

You could also try PWA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app

Edit: add PWA

Microsoft, I have a wireless sculpt keyboard + mouse. The mouse scroll wheel stopped working 2 years in. I called MS support and they sent me a full replacement (keyboard + mouse) at no cost.

Chic-filla - made an online group order for about $60, they forgot to include an item of <$10 value. Called and they gave a refund for the full order.

Microsoft blocked me after I purchased a gift card for my nephew. So I will never be able to buy a gift card from them again… The support couldn’t do anything about it. I can live with that but it definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.