Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV

24 pointsposted 4 hours ago
by nils_spatial

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6 Comments

bashd4

3 hours ago

This is really cool. Congrats guys. Just because I'm curious, how does the market for this look? How much revenue are you saving your customers with this? Also, surely this is very applicable in many many industries, do you have expansion plans?

Nevertheless, this is awesome and I wish I'd built it :)

nils_spatial

23 minutes ago

thanks!! Our wedge is underbilling in LTL trucking with ~10k relevant cross-docking warehouses across the US and Europe. Carriers lose revenue when shippers understate freight dimensions. We're seeing ~$50k/site/month in recoverable revenue from fixing that alone.

And yes, from there we expand to other industries such as fulfillment and manufacturing. Long term, we will be the CV layer for any warehouse running CCTV.

pX0r

3 hours ago

Interesting app of CV in OR.

Questions: - what is the measurement precision?

- do you need calibration? How do you do it in production?

- what it is the root problem you are trying to solve?

- what is your hypothesis about your solution- quantitatively?

nils_spatial

2 hours ago

1 + 4) If the bbox fit is accurate, we are below 1.5 inch MAE today. Improving bbox fit accuracy is where most of our effort goes. We're confident this gets to <1 inch at full coverage. The tail is bounded by data and model scale, both of which we're actively closing.

2) Not necessarily. Models like MapAnything/MoGe predict calibration params directly and GeoCalib is good for distortion coefficients. We still calibrate manually on-site, but mainly to validate these models actually hold up in real warehouses and collect our own calibration training data. We are confident the future is calibration-free.

3) carriers lose money every day because shippers understate dimensions and LTL is priced by volume. Every understated shipment is lost revenue. Thats the wedge we sre going after.

snihalani

4 hours ago

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nils_spatial

3 hours ago

Oh shoot - where did it happen? Can you try again?