We’ve worked on email infrastructure for multiple clients at Axon, and everything in this write-up checks out. Most startups just build wrappers around Postfix or SES and call it innovation. The hard problems, such as spam filtering, deliverability, and auth protocols, never get touched. That’s why 80% fail.
Agree. We build custom video analytics tools at Axon, and syncing OCR with audio-based STT isn’t rocket science anymore, especially with modern models. YouTube has all the ingredients, but seems slow to apply them at scale. Even basic alignment of audio captions with hardcoded subs would fix so much UX noise.
At Axon, we see the same pattern: data quality and diversity make a bigger difference than architecture tweaks. Whether it's AI for logistics or enterprise automation, real progress comes when we unlock new, structured datasets, not when we chase “smarter” models on stale inputs.
