Omar Pera

Omar Pera here, I lead product at Freepik. We’ve been working hard on making the best all-in-one creative AI Suite for marketing teams and design professionals, and in terms of Video Generation and editing, there was only one direction we could go. So, we are officially presenting our AI Video Upscaler paired with Topaz. This tool lets you upgrade any video up to Ultra HD 4K and 60 frames per...

Hola PH community! Omar Pera here, previous founder of an AI startup (reply.ai), and VP of Freepik Labs. We’ve been busy with something super interesting lately, and finally, it’s time to let you all try it without a waitlist. We’re officially introducing Freepik Pikaso, an AI image generator that lets you create images by sketching in real time. You can add icons, photos, move them around,...

It will be interesting to see how it evolves from here competing one to one with Blockfolio (huge fan), who has a much larger customer base. I will give it a try, the sync feature is th killer one!

Apart from having an awesome product they are very nice guys! They are my neighbors :)

Pretty cool. By chance I needed this type of API this week and asked for pricing to https://www.crowdflower.com/ guys. I find your API much simpler, but too expensive for a relatively medium volume (20k/month)

The wording of the landing is very misleading: "Applying for a visa typically takes months and costs an average of $6,000...Get your application reviewed by a lawyer supported by our technology, save you thousands of dollars" I love the concept of making it easier for people to get to the US (I went through an O1). But you are setting the wrong expectations regarding the final pricing.

Trully amazing. Killer product. For the moment I am with the logo plan, but hopefully I will move soon to the paid one ;)

Thanks for the hunt @bentossell! As @benedictevans once said "All curation grows until it requires search, and all search grows until it requires curation". So as I am pretty sure the number of bots are going to explode I would love to be ahead in the curation side. I've been following a lot the bot industry for quite a while already (I write about it in...

This made my day https://media3.giphy.com/media/JVdF14CQQH7gs/giphy.gif

I've been twice this month to visit some friends and it is pretty awesome (at least the one in Wall Street). WeWork starts to seem like McDonalds, both hidden real state businesses!

I take my hat off from these guys. Knowing how hard is to do video processing in Android, kudos to the team. It already has 20k ratings in a day, which from my experience can be around 1M and a half users. I cannot remember any other app which got such huge start. And word of mouth, basically.

Thanks for the hunt @bentossell. We built Felix bot for Slack at an internal hackathon and it was a lot of fun. Every day​​​​, you tell Felix your goals for ​​​​today​​​​, and he will help you stay on track. A simple habit to boost your productivity that I used to implement with a physical notepad. Some stats: released in the Slack directory last Friday, 100 teams came organically (including...

Pretty cool, although it opens the Skype Web for now, and not the native app. After giving a try to Skype Web in the last weeks, my conclusion is that is not ready for production at all. Hope they allow the option to open the native app soon.

We are planning an internal hackaton related to chat bots, and while doing it I was sharing interesting links with the team. That's how this newsletter was born :) Lately, lots of Slack bots are being created and I think this is only the beginning of the bots taking the world! And let's wait for the public release of the bot SDK from FB, that's going to be huge.