Scale (YC S16) Bounding Box API – Image Annotations by Humans via API

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Your demo is awesome, nice job. Do you guarantee a certain response time?

Also, I'm curious how people use your API if it takes 30 seconds+ to get a response -- ie can I use this for time-sensitive annotations, and also, wouldn't my code hang waiting for your response or do you offer webhooks?

Thanks! We try to have cool demos :) We're working on having faster and faster guarantees, but for now we'll guarantee responses within 20 minutes. It's definitely much faster normally.

By default, Scale is built using webhooks/callbacks to return responses. We definitely don't want our API to be blocking, and so we designed it intentionally not to block.

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