Since my App is targeted at developers building on Google Cloud, I focused on
1) Answering questions on Stackoverflow.
- A few users clicked on the profile and went to our home page
- A few of my responses involved a link to post on our blog (only did this where it was absolutely necessary)
2) Answering questions on Google Cloud reddit channel and Google Cloud Community (forum)
Still working on https://nocommandline.com which started out as a GUI for Google App Engine & Datastore Emulator.
I recently added support for Cloud Run and am now building it out. Support for Cloud Function is also on the road map.
I’m also still maintaining the patch [2] I created which allows you run App Engine Python 3 Apps with dev_appserver.py on Windows. To test App Engine bundled API/services, you need dev_appserver.py
An alternative to Oracle's VBCS Plugin for Excel [1]
Oracle's plugin allows you access Fusion REST Endpoints (your business data) from within an Excel workbook but it only works on Windows machines and has some other limitations
E.g. I use/used Google App Engine (GAE)[1] a lot. When Google deprecated the GUI, I found it inconveniencing using the CLI. Secondly, there was no GUI for the Datastore Emulator. So, I set out to build something for both of them [2] and then decided to put it out there for others.
Along the line, it turned out that Google didn't support using one of their tools "dev_appserver.py" for building Python 3 Apps on Windows and so I also built a patch for it [3]
Usually the website already exists. I fought with the same problem and even the cheapest service was charging a really high 5$/month,which immediately loses me as a customer, because that's the price of a vps and at that point I can do it.
my solution was a gcloud function that disables functionality if billing reaches a certain threshold (the free tier limit), but if I had to pay 20 bucks per year, I would have, but nope, everybody charging more than a vps.
- Release as open source if that was your intent or you want it (feel like) to be open sourced
- If you strictly made it to make money, then release it as a paid product but assume it might not make any money at all or that it will take time to make money. I believe that there's a general advice to shut down a project that doesn't make money in a very short time but some projects take awhile to gain traction. You can also use this as a learning experience in marketing/sales. Play around with the pricing over time (starting with much lower rates than you'd planned for) and see what works. You'll learn from it.
- Another option is to shut down the project entirely. You still have your code and they might come in handy when you work on other projects in the future (this has happened to me with multiple side projects)
… But when Moffatt later attempted to receive the discount, he learned that the chatbot had been wrong. Air Canada only awarded bereavement fees if the request had been submitted before a flight. The airline later argued the chatbot was a separate legal entity “responsible for its own actions,”….
How exactly do you go about making a chatbot a legal entity?
Yeah, but would it not be cool for this Ruling to have set a precedent for AI personhood? - thats something you would read in a humorously written scifi story
This gets close to the law of principal and agent. Are "intelligent agents" agents in the legal sense? That is, is the principal responsible for their actions?
That's usually the case for employees, unless the employee clearly acted outside the scope of their employment. AI systems operated on behalf of a business should be held to the same standard.
There's an economic theory of accounting for mistakes of agents.[1] There's a cost of mistakes, and a cost of decreasing the error rate. So it's something that can be priced into the cost of running the business.
I was thinking about this. Surely it must be made to pay back the money lost.
Options could be always to have it include advertisement to competitors or for example porn or dating sites, in each discussion or with each message. Seems reasonable enough to implement and deliver.
Always deliver some message critical of Air Canada...
There is lot of creative ways it could communicate with other customers. Thus paying for the wrongs commited...
In the books, Reacher was violent when he needed to be. The author made him ‘huge/large’ and his size enabled his act of violence/ability to mete out justice to the bad guys. Reacher’s size in the books is why folks complained when Tom Cruise starred as Reacher in the movies
1) Answering questions on Stackoverflow.
2) Answering questions on Google Cloud reddit channel and Google Cloud Community (forum)