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by viraptor 1857 days ago
People often don't know what's really needed by businesses until they see the use case. I remember 2 decades ago a family friend making fun of his son's project where they identified bad apples on a processing line in a packing facility. Pretty close to this project. He saw it and still didn't get it.
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Ok, so 1) this sounds immediately valuable to anyone that eats good apples and 2) who makes fun of their own kid (I mean, to the face)

Also, as a dad. Parents can be "unpleasant" people- bust so can kids.

To be fair, a machine that spots bad apples is rather useless, as by the time you spot them the whole bunch is already spoiled.
Let's assume that the company ordering that project knew what they were doing :-)
Next, an app to identify bad apples heh