Super sick. I've used this with my friends. How long was development?

Awesome! How was the experience like? We've tried multiple products. This is third pivot. Took two months to build this.

What about fields such as history or anthropology?

History: OCR of documents; image recognition for symbols; automatic translation;

Anthropology: language research; voice recognition of interviews; face recognition;

Highly depends on the topic and the project.

Are you surprised given how the space he's in trains him to put out material like this (and actually think like this)?

Also interested in this!

Is there a faster way beyond the first three steps? Surely there is a more nuanced "meta" (for lack of a better term) in making money in software?

How fast are you looking for? You can think about it as a speed being inversely proportional to probability of success.

What are some sensitive questions you've asked?

This is truly an innovative and relevant technology

Can you tell me more about how you did this? Would love to chat about this option because it's very appealing to me.

I was the entire IT department at a small company. (Maybe 50% development; the rest management, sysadmin, and support.) I was pretty sure I could convince my bosses to allow it, since I perform well and am hard to replace. The only hard part was finding someone to share my job with me, because my bosses didn't want to increase my budget. Luckily someone in my network liked the idea, and now we share a job.

How did you find the job that offered part-time? Is there a list somewhere for this?

HN Who's Hiring thread ~4 years ago.

What are some examples of jobs you can automate?

Everything Excel related. It's also a nice way to uncover niche opportunities depending on your industry

Edit: For anyone wondering what differentiates my project from crunchbase and Wikipedia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18545122