This seems like a bog standard object detection model wrapped into a nice frontend to teach it easily. I'm surprised it took this long. What am I not understanding here? When it comes to Andrew Ng, I expect nothing less than Skynet.
Commercialization isn't about how smart you are or how elegant your product is. It's about finding someone else's problem and convincing them to pay you to solve it.
This isn't a jab at Andrew (Coursera shows he has a very good head for commercialization), and this platform looks like a perfectly acceptable solution to a particular customer demand.
It's just a reminder that selling things can sometimes look boring to techies, because customers usually have boring problems.
Sometimes that's all you need to create a real business...
"you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
:-)
Look - seems like you benefited from his M00C and you’re his fan boy/girl. Good for you but let’s not commit the fatal error of pandering/worshipping at the altar of authority.