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After reading your comment, I was curious and looked up the site, and was expecting amature hour, but I think you're being too critical. The website looks well
by anatari 12y ago
After reading your comment, I was curious and looked up the site, and was expecting amature hour, but I think you're being too critical. The website looks well put together and communicated the product idea just fine. It's actually a very interesting idea that I think has real market demand if it actually works and produces better results than manually segmenting users (what all the other products do right now). That being said, I think it is very non-trivial to make a general recommendation engine that will work well for a variety of different apps and goals that isn't overly complicated. These things tend to sound good in theory, but fall apart in the details of practice.
#1. How do you know? Did you contact them? Obviously it's not open to the public as self-serve right now.
#2. I only glanced at the site, and didn't spot any. I'm sure they're there tho.
#3. They're demonstrating why you should care about push notifications. I'm sure they'll replace with specific case studies when they get some.
#4. I'm sure they've only begun to explore pricing at this early stage, but it seems reasonable to me. It's actually almost identical pricing per user compared to mixpanel, a YC company with a product in a similar space, at $0.002.
- avilay 12y agoThanks anatari for providing this feedback. You are spot on - our biggest technical challenge is to make a generic recommender that will work with a variety of different verticals. Our current approach is to limit ourselves to 3 specific verticals. For example consider the "news" vertical - a recommendation engine that works for NYTimes will likely work fine for WSJ.
- anatari 12y agoYeah, no problem. If you guys are planning on targeting games feel free to ping me privately to bounce ideas off of. I'm also a 30 something founder with kids in Seattle :). Our company currently uses a variety of services related to what you are doing. My email is my username at gmail.