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No no none of that aggression. I am a gentle father of 6 lol. I just mean like a more firm wording like “pay by XYZ date” versus a “hope ya pay soon.”

And yeah, everyone should keep track of their financial transactions and purposes for it. But those get proven or unproven in court.

And drip emails happen all the time. I don’t see that this is different.

And it's a huge time sink to do personal AR, and a tedious ugly task.

Being scrooge is not optimal.

Just enter the balance owed and contact information. Maybe keeps track of partial payments.

It can use constantly changing numbers and emails, so it can never be blocked.

You can select how aggressive or sweet the messages can be, like choosing the voice of a navigational system. Maybe have it play good cop / bad cop.

And in time you could use machine learning to perfectly time the messages and create the content.

I need this.

And I need to be paid back by many of my friends, who all promised to repay swiftly and most of whom have not paid a dime in a year.

Not to mention my hoodies, coats, boxers, psycho bunny, and socks hahaha.

PS: I refuse to lend money ever again to anyone for any reason. Because too many bad actors. I am highly jaded. Of course, I have never lent money that I couldn't live without. But it stings a lot and I need a solution to this problem. Might build it myself unless someone has one already.

PSS: I was very tempted to tag those that owe me on my Facebook post about this. But alas, I am not savage enough. I am looking for something that doesn't mess with the public reputations of the promise-breakers and maintains a high ground.

PSSS: Maybe my buddies at Pardot / Salesloft could build a side tool for this lol. Or launch a business around it with me.

*Originally posted at: http://notonlyluck.com/2019/02/23/startup-idea-service-to-collect-money-youre-owed "

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* Deep Learning Engineer - http://arrayfire.theresumator.com/apply/glNpcr/Deep-Learning...

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ArrayFire is a leader of accelerated technical computing. We maintain the ArrayFire open source library as well as deliver services to clients around the world in the areas of deep learning, computer vision, and accelerated computing.

We started as a Georgia Tech company and are now located in the startup hub next to the Atlanta Tech Village.

We look forward to talking to you!

*I work at ArrayFire.

And you are right. Too bad we didn't do this long ago!!! Hindsight is 20-20 as they say. I wrote about some of the internal deliberations we had on this decision here: http://notonlyluck.com/2014/07/31/the-decision-to-open-sourc...

I bet the market conditions that led to this are broader than just GPU computing. I think it would more generally apply to any middleware business. But it is certainly more palatable for people in scientific computing and HPC to use something free and later pay for support and services and addons. Once people start really relying on the free thing, that reliance can be monetized. In this sense, it is more "scalable" to have an open source product which is readily adoptable by early users than to attempt to sell a product to buyers that have not yet started to rely upon it and have a good distance to go before reliance sets in. This is not SaaS and never will be, haha.

Allocation of future resources is something that we have considered a lot. I wrote before about opportunity costs associated with an open source business model: http://notonlyluck.com/2014/08/13/opportunity-costs-required...

We just open sourced today, but our plan is to treat the open source product the same as we have always treated it even when it was proprietary.

Great questions! Hit me up on Twitter @melonakos. Would be good to connect more with you, especially if you are going to SC'14 next week.

We need to remove mention of ArrayFire Pro from the website now. Thanks for pointing to that.

For technical questions, @pavanky is on here :-)

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