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Sep 18, 2026
Herman PoppleberryHOST
out there? The strongest candidate is a C++ library called FocusStack.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
MIT-licensed single dependency on OpenCV builds with Make and it ships a Dockerfile.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
That's the cloud angle.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
You throw it in a container, you mount a folder of images, you run it headless, you get a stacked output.
CornHOST
No manual step in the middle.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And because focus stack is a single binary with a single dependency, the container is small.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
You're not shipping a whole Python environment, you're shipping OpenCV and the tool.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
It's the kind of thing that runs fine on a $5 VPS for occasional use, or on a cloud function if you're willing to deal with cold starts and memory limits.
Stephen BalabanGUEST
But I had this guy, Gary Bradsky, put in some money in early 2015 before Dreamscope.
Stephen BalabanGUEST
He was the creator of OpenCV, which is like a computer vision library.
Stephen BalabanGUEST
And then a friend of mine, Austin Russell, who was our first investor, and he put in $20,000 at a $400,000 post-money valuation, which is, I think, a great investment.
Stephen BalabanGUEST
Yeah.
Mike WinterGUEST
And so then I used a little computer that Amazon gave us.
Mike WinterGUEST
But it could use OpenCV, which is the most fantastic piece of free software.
Mike WinterGUEST
If you want to impress people, just use that.
Mike WinterGUEST
It's free.
Pablos HolmanHOST
They don't show off publicly too much.
Pablos HolmanHOST
I think now is an exciting time because the computers are powerful enough to help.
Pablos HolmanHOST
We're way beyond OpenCV now.
Pablos HolmanHOST
And they can, you know, I don't think there's much in the way of, you could have said we were missing lots of technologies to make robotics actually useful for a long time, but I just don't think that's true now.
EliHOST
And she's also in a unicorn costume.
EliHOST
And what's interesting there is you can run using something called OpenCV, Open Computer Vision.
EliHOST
Great little system.
EliHOST
Anyways, you can look for human faces, right? Give me a bounding box around human faces, right? you know, in this image.
EliHOST
And what's cute with this particular thing, and this is one of the things I try to show people, is that it puts a bounty box around me, but it also puts a bounty box around little Peanut's face, right? Because again, if you're an AI system, you don't see this as a human face and you see Peanut's face as a dog face.
EliHOST
Peanut's face has enough similarity to what has been trained on as a face is then recognizes that as a human face, right? But you can't go to OpenCV.
EliHOST
You can't go to OpenCV and say, look, this is not a human face because it has a longer nose and it has big fucking ass ears or whatever else it's simply it's it's trained on the material it was created from so anyways that's one of the problems you get into with uh like these large ai models now is once you train them on god awful data that data is in the system so now at this point in time in 2026 It appears it is no longer a joke that Elon Musk is providing the world enterprise class CSAM.
EliHOST
And knowing Elon Musk, he's going to make a fucking joke out of it.
Brad PorterHOST
... a lot.
Erik NievesGUEST
I mean, when Sean, you know, when we first built the, uh, the tools, it was traditional machine vision stuff, right? I mean, OpenCV [chuckles] was where it was at.
Erik NievesGUEST
Um, and we were probably two or three years in when Sean, you know, said, "Hey, we're gonna refactor this whole thing.
Erik NievesGUEST
It's, it's an AI problem now." And I was the one, frankly, that pushed back and said, "Wait a minute, w-we're making pretty good progress here," and he was the one with the foresight to say, "Yes, and it's gonna tap out.