ellenfkh

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by ellenfkh 1y ago
Our main tool (app.thorntale.com) is this concept! But yeah, the problem we've noticed is that without a lot of constraints, the generated presentations look very disjointed and tend to be incoherent. My theory is that while Claude and
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by ellenfkh 1y ago
It's definitely the next step -- adding the ability to tune the intended audience and (for instance) give them your specific context. The personas are a shortcut for more generic feedback, for if you don't know your audience very
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Show HN: Perfect your presentation with a panel of AI reviewers(review.thorntale.com)
10 points by ellenfkh 1y ago|7 comments
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by ellenfkh 2y ago
Pretty cool! The health insurance set would have been pretty useful when shopping for insurance.
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by ellenfkh 2y ago
A couple of tools are moving in that direction, but oddly enough, it's mostly deeper analytics tools like Hex. The obvious player that should do this and hasn't is Google. They have Looker, they have BigQuery (and Stackdriver, and
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by ellenfkh 2y ago
That's definitely the ideal world, but in our experience everyone says they want dashboards and live data but everything ends up in presentations anyways. Fundamentally, it's the current format for standing in front of someone and
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by ellenfkh 2y ago
Oh that's not good. Thanks for catching it! I got a repro on my machine, we're working on a fix.
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by ellenfkh 2y ago
Thanks! We've got a PostHog integration baking in our staging environment at the moment, and are working on Metabase and BigQuery next. What sources are you using for investor updates?
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by ellenfkh 2y ago
Snapshots are on our roadmap! It's partially implemented already, we didn't quite have enough time to finish it before launch.
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by ellenfkh 2y ago
Never mind, found it. Just deployed a fix, it should work now!
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by ellenfkh 2y ago
There's a couple of embedding startups out there -- I think there was one doing embedded analytics in our batch earlier on, but I don't remember if they pivoted. Looker is especially egregious in my opinion, since Google owns it.
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Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software that works with your data
77 points by ellenfkh 2y ago|39 comments