Would anyone who upvoted this mind explaining the significance of Algorithmia in general? The marketing itself seems to misuse the idea of an algorithm.
I remember the last time they popped up on HN someone pointed out how the licenses Algorithmia uses are one-sided. Has this situation improved at all, so developers aren't at a legal disadvantage?
The idea behind algorithmia is to expose algorithms, functions and ML models through an API so that they can be adapted from any language you as the developer feel comfortable in. Today we added a number of different languages our platform supports - expanding the number of developers that can contribute to our platform. The larger the library the more you can do with it.
Regarding the licenses. We support 4 types of licenses currently 3 FOSS and 1 Algorithmia Platform. The Algorithmia Platform takes no rights other than giving us permission to run your code on our platform and provide it as a service. At no point do we take ANY ownership of your IP. The only thing that can be seen as a restriction is that once you put an algorithm in our platform that version will always be there - this is just to guarantee to anybody building on top of our API that the code will always be there for them.
Regarding upvotes - HN has serious voting ring detection behind it and this climbed the ranks naturally since posted this morning. We are avid participants in this community with no intention of manipulating what is of interest.
I'd just softly suggest to make sure that the problem you're solving doesn't get lost in the marketing. Often I'll visit the sites of startups and not be able to quickly discern what it is they're doing, even after clicking their "about" page. Don't feel like it's repetitive to keep explaining this when most people aren't your customers yet.
That being said, I agree with thee other posters here. If I could downvote article submissions I would downvote this one.
OP, the world doesn't need this. Please stop. Thanks!