Joseph Nelson
@josephofiowa
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🦝 cofounder/ceo @roboflow (YC S20): making the world programmable. https://t.co/mFLoOYP0E5. assumes positive intent.
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Joined December 2011
The 8th prior founder joined Roboflow recently, though they are the first to have a $100M+ prior exit. (ex) Founders are joining Roboflow because you have autonomy, your impact is compounding, and we're so early. If you're quick, you'll be first 30. DM to write your own job.
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nice, this guy built and sold a product using roboflow in less than a week
We just sold our AI watermark remover for $4,000 🚀 It detects and removes watermarks with pixel-level accuracy 100% of the time, and platform algorithms even preferred our processed videos over Sora 2 Pro videos. Here’s how we built it 👇
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When student groups build their autonomous race cars with Roboflow, they place Roboflow on their rigs 🏎️ Shoutout to the University of Toronto here!
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dahlias are full bloom for another ~2wk in Golden Gate Park
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avra continues to impact how we run (and scale) Roboflow today. congrats on 2 years!
Happy 2nd birthday to avra! Launched batch 1 two years ago on this day with a $25k budget, 4 people avra team and an awesome group of founders who believed in our mission.
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we knew software creating software was inevitable
AI agents can prototype apps… But shipping real software takes hours of testing, debugging, and refactoring. Agent 3 is 10× more autonomous — it keeps going where others get stuck. The “Full Self-Driving” moment of software.
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did a live demo of some of our software yesterday w/ @josephofiowa really fun building vision software for the factory
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today, Kenneth is giving a tour of RMFG + how he built custom vision software:
luma.com
In this session, we’ll go on a factory tour with Kenneth Cassel, Founder of RMFG, to explore how his company is transforming the sheet metal industry using…
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Awesome to see Apple share more open source The models would have a much bigger impact with a more permissive license, eg they don’t allow commercial use
github.com
This repository contains the official implementation of "FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models" - CVPR 2025 - apple/ml-fastvlm
NEW: Apple releases FastVLM and MobileCLIP2 on Hugging Face! 🤗 The models are up to 85x faster and 3.4x smaller than previous work, enabling real-time VLM applications! 🤯 It can even do live video captioning 100% locally in your browser (zero install). Huge for accessibility!
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3D printing parts, testing rotary tables, rigging jetsons, connecting cameras, building linear belt, installing PLCs, calibrating ufactory. vision is where atoms 🤝 bits fun night at Roboflow New York
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corn is king
As the battle of Farmageddon comes to an end, I am once again forced to agree with @josephofiowa the corn is superior to wheat. Please respect my privacy at this time.
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yes, this was in anticipation of WWI. the US first commercial airlines began in 1925 for airmail.
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TIL while the US invented powered flight in 1903 with the Wright Brothers, the rest of the world commercialized it first with DELAG (Germany, 1909), KLM (Netherlands, 1919), Avianca (Colombia, 1919).
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🆕 Part 3 of our GPT-5 Coverage: GPT-5's Vision Checkup results, from Matvei Popov at @roboflow! https://t.co/FUyUkvZjg0 TLDR; it's the same as our existing SOTAs. GPT-5-Mini is particularly cost effective for a frontier VLM.
latent.space
Our friends at Roboflow ran the numbers today on GPT-5's underrated (but also improved) vision capabilities.
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“BIG ASS HEAD” monitors what YT video you’re enjoying, classifies it into 10 categories (EDM, rock, …), and selects one of 100 guys’ heads to block your viewing experience — like you’re at the show available as a dev chrome extension:
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this chrome extension puts the back of someone’s head on top of your YouTube video so it feels like you’re watching at a live concert incredible stuff at NYC Silly Hackathon
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Every time I check in, @roboflow is crushing it even harder:
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Today the US is unveiling its Action Plan to win the AI race, which has been six months in the making @DavidSacks outlines 3 core pillars that guide the 90 concrete recommendations the administration will pursue — 1. Innovation. “You have to out-innovate the competition.”
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