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I agree with this. Louis has done a ton in the last decade and deserves thanks for sure.

Josh was just an awesome guy. He always had an energetic and magnetic personality. I'll miss you Josh, see you on the other side.

Coop (https://smart.coop.farm)| 2nd Founding Engineer | iOS Heavy Engineer | Hybrid onsite | Austin, TX | Full-time, Part-time

My name is AJ Forsythe and I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender at Coop! We're an Austin TX based company on a mission to build the world’s largest decentralized food production network, starting with AI powered chicken Coops. We’ve been in the market for about 18 months and our customers are in 48 states and will generate about >10M eggs this year. It's insanely fun to work on and we have a shot at building a huge business in the connected urban farming space. If you’re big into computer vision, consumer products that are fun, and an awesome team we would love to chat. The Coop has an automatic door + cameras doing computer vision work (predator detection, egg alerts, remote health monitoring, etc). It's a super exciting time and are seeing directional product market fit which I'm thrilled about. Seriously go check out our website, it's a super fun + amazing product.

We’re a tight-knit team of 5 people with 15+ years of experience working together. We’ve been through YC, started and scaled multinational million-dollar businesses together, taking them from idea to acquisition by a Fortune 50 company. We’re gritty and passionate without taking ourselves too seriously - and we’re here to build something really exciting that helps people reconnect with their food and the planet. We're VC backed (call it $5M) by some of the world's best investors but we are a scrappy small team that moves fast. We have an absolutely fantastic CTO Ryan that I'm looking for his / our right hand person to work alongside with. I think the term full stack is overused but that's closest to what we're looking for. Also this really isn’t a traditional Eng role, I look at it as we’re a small growing team and you would be one of us working on a ton a cool projects on day 1. Also, we LOVE working with founders so if you've started a company before that's epic.

Oh also, I have a fun project where I want to make a water gun turret that uses our cameras to detect predators and allows you to aim and blast them. If you're into hacking robotics and gimbals etc, please reach out.

You can also reach out to me directly at: aj[at]coop.farm - Just email me your LinkedIn / GitHub / portfolio + why you think you'll be an awesome fit and I'll respond. Please don’t use GPT too much. This is my 3rd company (2 have exited) and I want to build the super solid core team and you might be the perfect fit for us and vice versa. Bwok Bwok! AJ

Coop (https://smart.coop.farm)| 2nd Founding Engineer | iOS Heavy Engineer | Hybrid onsite | Austin, TX | Full-time, Part-time

My name is AJ Forsythe and I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender at Coop! We're an Austin TX based company on a mission to build the world’s largest decentralized food production network, starting with AI powered chicken Coops. We’ve been in the market for about 18 months and our customers are in 48 states and will generate about >10M eggs this year. It's insanely fun to work on and we have a shot at building a huge business in the connected urban farming space. If you’re big into computer vision, consumer products that are fun, and an awesome team we would love to chat. The Coop has an automatic door + cameras doing computer vision work (predator detection, egg alerts, remote health monitoring, etc). It's a super exciting time and are seeing directional product market fit which I'm thrilled about. Seriously go check out our website, it's a super fun + amazing product.

We’re a tight-knit team of 5 people with 15+ years of experience working together. We’ve been through YC, started and scaled multinational million-dollar businesses together, taking them from idea to acquisition by a Fortune 50 company. We’re gritty and passionate without taking ourselves too seriously - and we’re here to build something really exciting that helps people reconnect with their food and the planet. We're VC backed (call it $5M) by some of the world's best investors but we are a scrappy small team that moves fast.

We have an absolutely fantastic CTO Ryan that I'm looking for his / our right hand person to work alongside with. I think the term full stack is overused but that's closest to what we're looking for. Also this really isn’t a traditional Eng role, I look at it as we’re a small growing team and you would be one of us working on a ton a cool projects on day 1. Also, we LOVE working with founders so if you've started a company before that's epic.

Oh also, I have a fun project where I want to make a water gun turret that uses our cameras to detect predators and allows you to aim and blast them. If you're into hacking robotics and gimbals etc, please reach out.

You can also reach out to me directly at: aj[at]coop.farm - Just email me your LinkedIn / GitHub / portfolio + why you think you'll be an awesome fit and I'll respond. Please don’t use GPT too much. This is my 3rd company (2 have exited) and I want to build the super solid core team and you might be the perfect fit for us and vice versa.

Bwok Bwok! AJ

I just laughed out loud. My friends and I LOVED RuneScape in middle school. I'll meet yall in the wilderness to trade armor.

So I am mostly a lurker here on HN for the past 15 years but I love the community and positivity and general helpfulnesses on this thread. You all are awesome and OP thanks for being vulnerable and I hope the community keeps loving on you!

I loved my time in SF. For those that remember Detour GPS guided audio tours in 2015 that Andrew Mason founded, the audio tours in SF were next level and so special and showed a side of the history of SF I hadn't seen. Luckily they're preserved on Spotify (although without the GPS guided part) - https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/detour-podcast/

I have the Samsung Frame TV (great TV btw) and decided I didn't want to pay the $5 / month to have curated art in the room and when Superman the movie came out a few months ago it was only displaying Superman comics on the screen. Was super annoying bc was subtle but not subtle enough. I uploaded family pics instead so I don't have that anymore but it was still pretty annoying. I have samsung washers / dryers / dishwasher etc all connected to the internet and I love the notifications when a load is done but I don't know how useful the data is... I assume data brokers are like, "Oh Aj uses his washing machine 7 times a month let's hit him with Tide ads", but I assume everyone uses the machine that much. I'm fine having my machines tell Samsung use bc it's normal usage (i think?)

I have a 2020 model X as well and I love it. I have no plans on upgrading which oddly is because it doesn't have the interior review mirror cam for FSD to yell at me for silly things like looking at a passenger to talk while on FSD and it still drives like it did on day 1 (60k miles ago, have only done tires and minor warranty calls). Honestly a fantastic car and now that it's paid off I'm like yep I'll keep this for years more. Keep the car it's great!

Actually to edit this comment - the main (only?) reason I bought the car is because if I'm in an accident I want to try to be in safest car possible and if my sig other is driving I want them to be in the safest car I can find. I thought that paying a premium at release in model X 2020 was well worth the premium if people I love are in it.

When I see gaps on resumes I don't mind it at all - I personally have always wanted want 6-12 months off to go work on side projects. If you need an excuse I would just say you're consulting friends companies and / or working on side projects you're passionate about. I don't think it's a big deal at all, if anything shows you're exploring things and figuring out what you find interesting.

AJ

Coop (https://smart.coop.farm)| 2nd Founding Engineer | Remote or Onsite | Austin, TX | Full-time, Part-time, Internship if you’re scrappy

My name is AJ Forsythe and I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender at Coop! We're an Austin TX based company on a mission to build the world’s largest decentralized food production network, starting with AI powered chicken Coops. We’ve been in the market for about 18 months and our customers are in 48 states and will generate about >5M eggs this year. It's insanely fun to work on and we have a shot at building a huge business in the connected urban farming space. If you’re big into computer vision, consumer products that are fun, and an awesome team we would love to chat. The Coop has an automatic door + cameras doing computer vision work (predator detection, egg alerts, remote health monitoring, etc). It's a super exciting time and are seeing directional product market fit which I'm thrilled about. Seriously go check out our website, it's a super fun + amazing product.

We’re a tight-knit team of 6 people with 15+ years of experience working together. We’ve been through YC, started and scaled multinational million-dollar businesses together, taking them from idea to acquisition by a Fortune 50 company. We’re gritty and passionate without taking ourselves too seriously - and we’re here to build something really exciting that helps people reconnect with their food and the planet. We're VC backed (call it $5M) by some of the world's best investors but we are a scrappy small team that moves fast.

We have an absolutely fantastic CTO Ryan that I'm looking for his / our right hand person to work alongside with. I think the term full stack is overused but that's closest to what we're looking for. Also this really isn’t a traditional Eng role, I look at it as we’re a small growing team and you would be one of us working on a ton a cool projects on day 1. Also, we LOVE working with founders so if you've started a company before that's epic.

You can also reach out to me directly at: aj[at]coop.farm - Just email me your LinkedIn / GitHub / portfolio + why you think you'll be an awesome fit and I'll respond. This is my 3rd company (2 have exited) and I want to build the super solid core team and you might be the perfect fit for us and vice versa.

Bwok Bwok!

AJ

Awww love this! You did awesome work on it, it was fun seeing you build this and bring it to life. Congrats on the launch man!!!

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A deep computer vision powered backyard predator detection turret that would auto target deer in the garden, raccoons by the chicken coop, etc and spray them with water (think super soaker). Would have auto mode or be able to move and target it with your app for fun.

I just downloaded this and listened to it for the past 2 hours, this is a fantastic book. Thanks for the rec guys!

Love this. I sent this to a few of my military and commercial pilot friends to see if they are interested in talking / helping out. Good luck solving this problem!

Out of curiosity, and I'm living under a rock.. which one?

Backyard chickens FTW! I sold my last company iCracked (W12) and have been automating my coop for fun for the last 15 years. I have always wanted to build a company at the intersection of smart home / AI meets backyard agriculture with the end goal of building the world's largest decentralized food production system. So we started Coop with the goal of making backyard chickens approachable to anyone with a backyard. We built camera systems that do crazy cool deep computer vision and have gotten to the point where we can tell our customers, "Hey AJ, there's 2 raccoons detected outside the coop, the automatic door is closed, all 6 of your hens are safe, and you have 5 eggs that can be collected. We've trained our model on 25m videos from customers and are pushing new models every week.

We built this for the family that has always wanted chickens, but doesnt know where to start. We also include 6 chickens with every coop, which I think is hilarious. The plan is to vertically integrate everything from the supply chain (feed, treats, supplements, vet visits, etc) and make it SUPER easy to have a backyard flock. It's been a fascinating and fun company to build - If you want to see some of the stuff we're doing on the tech side feel free to check out www.Coop.Farm - Also one of the things that we track where we think our thesis is playing out is how many people use us that haven't raised chickens before and we're at 71% of our customers are new to backyard ag. Also, we make standalone cameras for existing flocks and other animals and I have been super surprised to see the amount of people using our predator detection and remote health monitoring models for rabbits, goats, pigs, ducks, etc. Super fun company to build.

Most of our customers have decent sized backyards - I would say on average from clips people have shared, most yards are about the size of a tennis court or more (which is more than enough for 4-6 hens). Basically we look at it as, if you have a backyard, you have enough space for 4-6 chickens. Also, It's funny you mention My First Million - Sam Parr is a good friend of mine and I've been trying to get him to invest in Coop, lol.

One of the things that we've been thinking about is when we're at scale (I would say scale is 50,000+ Coops in the field) I would love to build a circular food waste system where we use food expiring / thrown out from grocery stores to feed our Coop member's chickens. Then we'll do partnerships where our members can sell excess backyard-to-table eggs back to the grocery stores.

Most people don't get that eggs usually are 30-60 days old when you buy them at the grocery store and they have to travel up to 1000 miles to get there in cold storage.

Want to know how old your eggs are? On every egg carton there's a 3 digit number from 1 to 365. That is the day of the year the producer of eggs handed them off to the distributor. Producers have up to 30 days to hand it off to distributor and the distributor has an additional 30 days to hand off to retailer. Kinda wild!

It's a good question - From what we've seen most suburban people that raise chickens don't do it to lower costs of eggs - they do it to have better control over the quality of food they eat, to teach their kids that you take care of the chickens, they take care of us. To eliminate food waste (avg family throws out 200+ lbs a year of food that can go to chickens, and because funnily enough most backyard farmers treat the chickens as family and pets vs just little egg-factories.

Avg hen lays about 250-270 eggs a year depending on breed. So 6 chickens (our coop is designed for 6) throws off about 1500 eggs a year. Avg American eats around 291 eggs + egg products per year (which is crazy!).

Most people build their coops or buy one from Tractor Supply or Amazon for $300 and day-old chicks are around $4 each and feed is inexpensive (50lb bag at Tractor Supply is $21). You can make the economics work super well if you want to but as most backyard chickens are treated as pets (I am leaving out large farms and homesteads, etc) a lot of people pamper and spend $ on their hens because it's more than just getting a lower cost egg if that makes sense.

Totally agree with this. After selling my last company (iCracked W12) I had been playing around with the idea of how to build the world's largest decentralized food production network - think millions of people leveraging their backyards to produce, share, and sell protein and vegetables. I've always wanted to build a company that blends smart home / AI technology with backyard agriculture and we decided to start with chickens. I have been raising chickens for 15 years and automating my coops with Arduino's, automatic doors, cameras for computer vision, etc.

We spent 2 years building and designing a AI / smart coop and it's been a fascinating company to be able to build. We've trained our computer vision model on around 25 million videos and have gotten extremely good at doing specific predator detection, egg alerts, remote health monitoring, specific chickens in a coop and behaviors etc. We're at the point now where we can say, "Hey AJ, there's 2 raccoons outside your coop, the automatic door is shut, all 6 chickens are safe, and you have 10 eggs that can be collected". Super fun project and would love y'alls feedback. If you're interested in seeing what we're doing we're at www.TheSmartCoop.com

Aww thank you becomevocal! I love the feedback! :)

Awww I love seeing chicken lovers on HN threads! I started a company called Coop specifically to make it much easier and accessible for anyone with a backyard to raise chickens. We make cameras that do a bunch of computer vision work for predator detection, door alerts, egg alerts, etc. We're at the point where we can now notify people that, "hey, raccoon is detected, door is closed and all chickens are safe". It's been a super fun company to build and right now 59% of our customers have never raised chickens before. I've always wanted to blend backyard agriculture with smart home technology and it seems to be working. Keep up the chicken-love!! Our website is www.coop.farm if anyone is interested or has feedback!

This is awesome to see this is live, I would love to join!

Coop | Onsite | Austin, TX | Full-time | UI / UX Designers | Computer Vision / Full stack Engineers |

My name is AJ Forsythe and I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender at Coop! We're an Austin TX based tech company on a mission to democratize chickens + build the largest decentralized food production network. It's insanely fun to work on and we have a shot at building a huge business in the connected urban farming space. Check out www.Coop.Farm to see what we’ve spent the last 18 months on as we’re building the world’s best chicken coop. We’re a 1 week away from entering production and are seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars of Coop pre-orders - It's a super exciting time and are seeing directional product market fit which I'm thrilled about.

We’re a tight-knit team of 6 people with 10+ years of experience working together. We’ve been through Y Combinator, started and scaled multinational million-dollar businesses together, taking them from idea to acquisition by a Fortune 50 company. We’re gritty and passionate without taking ourselves too seriously - and we’re here to build something really exciting that helps people reconnect with their food and the planet.

We’re looking to hire: Full stack Engineer with Computer vision bonus focus. https://coop.rippling-ats.com/job/479868/-founding-full-stac...

UI / UX Product Designer - https://coop.rippling-ats.com/job/512664/-founding-ui-ux-pro...

We're VC backed (a few $m+) by some of the best investors and are having a blast building this business. if this resonates with you we would love to talk - You can reach me directly at: AJ[at]Coop.Farm. A short email about why you're interesting and the right fit is all we need to get started.

Coop | Onsite | Austin, TX | Full-time | Computer Vision / Full stack Engineers | UI / UX Designers

My name is AJ Forsythe and I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender at Coop! We're an Austin TX based tech company on a mission to democratize chickens + build the largest decentralized food production network. It's insanely fun to work on and we have a shot at building a huge business in the connected urban farming space. Check out www.Coop.Farm to see what we’ve spent the last 18 months on as we’re building the world’s best chicken coop. We’re a 1 week away from entering production and are seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars of Coop pre-orders - It's a super exciting time and are seeing directional product market fit which I'm thrilled about.

We’re a tight-knit team of 6 people with 10+ years of experience working together. We’ve been through Y Combinator, started and scaled multinational million-dollar businesses together, taking them from idea to acquisition by a Fortune 50 company. We’re gritty and passionate without taking ourselves too seriously - and we’re here to build something really exciting that helps people reconnect with their food and the planet.

We’re looking to hire: Full stack Engineer with Computer vision bonus focus. https://coop.rippling-ats.com/job/479868/-founding-full-stac...

I turned off the job postings below but if you think you're a good fit email me Chief of Staff / EA to the founder UI / UX Designer + Product Manager

We're VC backed (a few $m+) by some of the best investors and are having a blast building this business. if this resonates with you we would love to talk - You can reach me directly at: AJ[at]Coop.Farm. A short email about why you're interesting and the right fit is all we need to get started.

Coop | Onsite | Austin, TX | Full-time | Computer Vision / Full stack Engineers | EA / Chief of Staff | UI / UX Designers

My name is AJ Forsythe and I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender at Coop! We're an Austin TX based tech company on a mission to democratize chickens + build the largest decentralized food production network. It's insanely fun to work on and we have a shot at building a huge business in the connected urban farming space. Check out www.Coop.Farm to see what we’ve spent the last 18 months on as we’re building the world’s best chicken coop. We’re a 2 months away from entering production and are seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars of Coop pre-orders - It's a super exciting time and are seeing directional product market fit which I'm thrilled about.

We’re a tight-knit team of 6 people with 10+ years of experience working together. We’ve been through Y Combinator, started and scaled multinational million-dollar businesses together, taking them from idea to acquisition by a Fortune 50 company. We’re gritty and passionate without taking ourselves too seriously - and we’re here to build something really exciting that helps people reconnect with their food and the planet.

We’re looking to hire:

Full stack Engineer with Computer vision bonus focus. https://coop.rippling-ats.com/job/479868/-founding-full-stac...

I turned off the job postings below but if you think you're a good fit email me Chief of Staff / EA to the founder UI / UX Designer + Product Manager

We're VC backed (a few $m+) by some of the best investors and are having a blast building this business. if this resonates with you we would love to talk - You can reach me directly at: AJ[at]Coop.Farm. A short email about why you're interesting and the right fit is all we need to get started.

Coop | Onsite | Austin, TX | Full-time | Full stack Engineers | EA / Chief of Staff | UI / UX Designers

My name is AJ Forsythe and I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender at Coop! We're an Austin TX based tech company on a mission to democratize chickens + build the largest decentralized food production network. It's insanely fun to work on and we have a shot at building a huge business in the connected urban farming space. Check out www.Coop.Farm to see what we’ve spent the last 18 months on as we’re building the world’s best chicken coop.

We’re a 2 months away from entering production and are seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars of Coop pre-orders - It's a super exciting time and are seeing directional product market fit which I'm thrilled about. We’re a tight-knit team of 6 people with 10+ years of experience working together. We’ve been through Y Combinator, started and scaled multinational million-dollar businesses together, taking them from idea to acquisition by a Fortune 50 company. We’re gritty and passionate without taking ourselves too seriously - and we’re here to build something really exciting that helps people reconnect with their food and the planet.

We’re looking to hire:

Full stack Engineer with iOS focus https://coop.rippling-ats.com/job/479868/-founding-full-stac...

Chief of Staff / EA to the founder: https://coop.rippling-ats.com/job/599237/-founder-s-ea-pa-co...

UI / UX Designer + Product Manager: https://coop.rippling-ats.com/job/512664/-founding-ui-ux-pro...

We're VC backed (a few $m+) by some of the best investors and are having a blast building this business. if this resonates with you we would love to talk - You can reach me directly at: AJ[at]Coop.Farm. A short email about why you're interesting and the right fit is all we need to get started.

Coop | Onsite | Austin, TX | Full-time | Full stack Engineers | EA / Chief of Staff | UI / UX Designers

My name is AJ Forsythe and I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender at Coop! We're an Austin TX based tech company on a mission to democratize chickens + build the largest decentralized food production network. It's insanely fun to work on and we have a shot at building a huge business in the connected urban farming space. Check out www.Coop.Farm to see what we’ve spent the last 18 months on as we’re building the world’s best chicken coop. We’re a 2 months away from entering production and are seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars of Coop pre-orders - It's a super exciting time and are seeing directional product market fit which I'm thrilled about.

We’re a tight-knit team of 6 people with 10+ years of experience working together. We’ve been through Y Combinator, started and scaled multinational million-dollar businesses together, taking them from idea to acquisition by a Fortune 50 company. We’re gritty and passionate without taking ourselves too seriously - and we’re here to build something really exciting that helps people reconnect with their food and the planet.

We’re looking to hire:

Chief of Staff / EA to the founder: https://coop.rippling-ats.com/job/599237/-founder-s-ea-pa-co...

UI / UX Designer + Product Manager: https://coop.rippling-ats.com/job/512664/-founding-ui-ux-pro...

Full stack Engineer with iOS focus I need to repost this job but reach out if you’re interested.

We're VC backed (a few $m+) by some of the best investors and are having a blast building this business. if this resonates with you we would love to talk - You can reach me directly at: AJ[at]Coop.Farm. A short email about why you're interesting and the right fit is all we need to get started.