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Startup City

Have you got a great idea you'd like to put into action? This is the place for you! We'll talk about ideas and how to turn them into businesses here.

Members: 24
Latest Activity: Jun 10, 2016

About Startup City

Turning an idea into reality is a fine art. Sure, sometimes people start a business and momentum sets in on its own like magic. More often than not, getting traction on a new idea begins with a well thought out business plan and more. What's the secret? Jump in here at Startup City and find out how to get your idea on the road to suuccess!

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Free Webcast: Lessons from Real Life - Tuesday, June 14, 2016

There's theory, fiction, and fantasy. . .and then there's real life. Life's lessons—successes and failures alike—have much to teach us. Since there is only so much that one person can experience in a…Continue

Tags: codetown, o'reilly

Started by Michael Levin Jun 10, 2016.

Kiosk Mall Push - An idea from Bradlee Sargent 2 Replies

Brad wrote: I noticed that in the Florida Mall, there are a lot of kiosks and the sellers there want to sell their stuff.…Continue

Tags: sargent, startup, push

Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Michael Levin Oct 31, 2011.

Startup Weekend 4 Replies

 Coincidently, I was reading an article about "Startup Weekend" when I received the email from Mike about demo city.    http://startupweekend.org/ I would…Continue

Tags: startup, jobs, ideas, web2.0, web

Started by Tom Duerr. Last reply by Mario Talavera Mar 6, 2011.

Your Startup - Web Presence 2 Replies

Does your startup need an elegant web presence? It's amazing that some very simple websites…Continue

Tags: entrepreneurship, startups, startup

Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Michael Levin Mar 1, 2011.

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Welcome to Codetown!

Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.

When you create a profile for yourself you get a personal page automatically. That's where you can be creative and do your own thing. People who want to get to know you will click on your name or picture and…
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Google Open-Sources the Common Expression Language for Python

Google has open sourced CEL-expr-python, a Python implementation of the Common Expression Language (CEL), a non-Turing complete embedded policy and expression language designed for simplicity, speed, safety, and portability.

By Sergio De Simone

QCon London 2026: How To Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not To

Form3 runs UK bank payments across three clouds simultaneously. At QCon London, their engineers explained how they built their custom Kubernetes operators, cross-cloud DNS tricks, and distributed databases, and what happened when they tried to sell them in America. Spoiler: US customers wanted East/West failover, not triple-active multi-cloud.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

QCon London 2026: The Hidden Power of Boring Problems

At QCon London 2026, Yinka Omole, Lead Software Engineer at Personio, presented a session exploring a recurring dilemma engineers face, whether to spend time mastering the newest technologies and frameworks or to invest in deeper, foundational problems that may appear less exciting but deliver long-term value.

By Daniel Dominguez

DoorDash Builds DashCLIP to Align Images, Text, and Queries for Semantic Search Using 32M Labels

DoorDash has launched a multimodal machine learning system that aligns product images, text, and user queries in a shared embedding space. Trained on 32 million labeled query-product pairs using contrastive learning, the system improves semantic search, product ranking, and advertising relevance. Embeddings also support other machine learning tasks across the marketplace.

By Leela Kumili

Presentation: Image Processing for Automated Tests

Stefan Dirnstorfer discusses the shift from DOM-based testing to visual UI agents. He explains why LLMs often fail at precision tasks - like spotting one-pixel shifts or broken road networks - and shares how advanced image registration and "Chain-of-Thought" vision processing are essential for reliable QA. Learn why combining generative AI with classical algorithms is the future of automation.

By Stefan Dirnstorfer

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