Honestly, you should charge like $1 for each operation. People will trust it more that way, as you're not incentivized to snoop on their files (or put 500 ads everywhere).
Ah yeah, the surefire way of getting "trust" is by charging people, how could one forget about this obvious way...
Also, how would charging work when you're offline? One of the features of the tooling is that stuff works offline, seems maybe charging for each use wouldn't quite match up with reality.
In general, I have been thinking about how to get some earnings from this, it would allow me to spend more time and continuing to improve the tool faster. I am still not sure the best way to do it without scaring away too many users. If I could get some earnings and also increase trust that would be great. Need to think about this idea, maybe I can do a test and see how it works out...
(I already ruled out ads, since I don't want to clutter the tool and also most ad networks are not exactly privacy friendly which one of the main ideas behind the tool)
I think you should be able to make some money by offering your services to corporations. They don't know that everything runs on the browser, but they will like and pay for the idea of adding this capability to their website (pdftools.acmecorp.com). Start with lawyers, I think they are prime customers (pdfux.biglaw.com). Once you explain to their IT that you are only leveraging the clien-side processing, they'll leave you alone. All they would do is give you access to a vps or a vm in their hypervisor, or heck you could dockerize and sell it branded to them(biglaw inc all over the place). I do believe that's called.. bespoke service!! lol.. and of course.. the annual support income.
I agree with selling to corporations. However, most big law lawyers will need a higher level of PDF functionality. At a quick glance, I notice that the tools can't manipulate bookmarks, which are required for electronic filing in most courts.
It’s strange to me that their remediation did not include distributing these systems to be redundant across multiple datacenters, maybe with a globally distributed database.
> we knew that the failback from disaster recovery would be very complex
The disaster recovery failover to a second data center (and failback) should not force a choice to failover or not. They should be able to immediately failover and the system should self-heal once the original data center was back online.
This is interesting. If you can deliver on this, I'm guessing you can deliver on a lot more. Figuring out what warrants an alert is a non-trivial problem, and it's in the same problem space as answering other business questions like "what is our true organic traffic".
Also, on metric drops I'm interested not just in the alerts but also in the narrowing down of what is causing the drop. For example, the first question we always ask is "could marketing blend be causing this". I imagine your ML can figure that out. You could also point out where to look, like "iOS 13 is fine, but there is a severe drop in conversion for iOS 12" or "Conversion dropped for app version 13.2 on Android".
Funny, Actually I know a startup in Edinburgh that has figured out the “true organic traffic” and they’ve used ML to fix the data for marketing attribution model.
Was this ML attribution model output explainable / deterministic? I've seen some really complicated marketing attribution models in the past and hear it was something of a never-ending battle to understand and arrive at the "right" model.
I believe it is explainable as I didn’t hear anything fancy about the model being built. It’s been tested and proven to cut marketing spend quite a bit while delivering the same results. A patent has also been filed.
You are spot on that sometimes we just overcomplicate models and sometimes it’s best to go with something explainable and deterministic but less accurate as opposed to more accuracy but complicated.
Thanks! We'll rolling out slowly (kinda Superhuman onboarding style back in their old days) so definitely hope to get in touch with you soon :)
Also re: narrowing down what's causing the drop, that's definitely on the roadmap. We know teams have playbooks of things to check when they know something looks wrong, so we should be able to productize & automate this
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Truebill is an app that runs your finances. Our mission is to meaningfully improve the the financial health of millions of people. We offer a view into the important pieces (like all of your recurring subscriptions & bills) of your finances and optimize where we can by lowering bills, getting fees refunded, and even managing cashflow.
We are YC and venture backed. Founding team previously founded Webs.com/Freewebs which we sold to Vistaprint for over $100m.
As a part of our small team, you’ll have input and immense impact on everything from business to product to engineering. You’ll also have a lot of choice in terms of what types of things you’d like to work on, and what areas you’d like to grow in.
Our product engineering stack is awesome to work with: React Native, Apollo, GraphQL, Node, Postgres
We're looking to fill two roles:
1) Amazing senior full-stack Javascript engineers who care about the technology and the product. If you love Javascript, React, and the like, you'll feel right at home.
2) Senior Data & Machine Learning Engineer - someone who can implement various Machine Learning features as well as choose and deploy a solid infrastructure and data pipeline that will serve as the foundation for all things data at Truebill.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept any dev bootcamp candidates right now. CS/CE-type degree and/or solid experience is required. Experience with machine learning is a plus. Experience working on consumer-scale apps is a plus.
Email [email protected] for more info. We'll do a quick call to discuss further.
Truebill (YC W16) | Javascript Engineer/Architect OR Head of Data & ML | San Francisco/SF or Washington, DC area | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://www.truebill.com/
Truebill is an app that runs your finances. Our mission is to meaningfully improve the the financial health of millions of people. We offer a view into the important pieces (like all of your recurring subscriptions & bills) of your finances and optimize where we can by lowering bills, getting fees refunded, and even managing cashflow.
We are YC and venture backed. Founding team previously founded Webs.com/Freewebs which we sold to Vistaprint for over $100m.
As a part of our small team, you’ll have input and immense impact on everything from business to product to engineering. You’ll also have a lot of choice in terms of what types of things you’d like to work on, and what areas you’d like to grow in.
Our product engineering stack is awesome to work with: React Native, Apollo, GraphQL, Node, Postgres
We're looking to fill two roles:
1) Amazing full-stack Javascript engineers who care about the technology and the product. If you love Javascript, React, and the like, you'll feel right at home.
2) Head of Data & Machine Learning - someone who can implement various Machine Learning features as well as choose and deploy a solid infrastructure and data pipeline that will serve as the foundation for all things data at Truebill.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept any dev bootcamp candidates right now. CS/CE-type degree and/or solid experience is required. Experience with machine learning is a plus. Experience working on consumer-scale apps is a plus.
Email [email protected] for more info. We'll do a quick call to discuss further.
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Truebill is building autopilot for your finances. We help people manage their finances by offering a view into the important pieces (like all of your recurring subscriptions & bills) and optimizing where we can by lowering bills, getting fees refunded, and even managing cashflow.
We are YC and venture backed. Founding team previously founded Webs.com/Freewebs which we sold to Vistaprint for over $100m.
As a part of our small team, you’ll have input and immense impact on everything from business to product to engineering. You’ll also have a lot of choice in terms of what types of things you’d like to work on, and what areas you’d like to grow in.
Our product engineering stack is awesome to work with: * React Native * Apollo * GraphQL * Node * Postgres
We're looking to fill two roles:
1) Amazing full-stack product engineers who care about the technology and the product.
2) Head of Data & Machine Learning - someone who can span both data engineering (choosing and deploying solid infrastructure) and data science. Will be responsible for re-writing our data pipeline and will be in charge of all things data at Truebill.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept any dev bootcamp candidates right now. CS/CE-type degree and/or solid experience is required. Experience with machine learning is a plus. Experience working on consumer-scale apps is a plus.
Email [email protected] for more info. We'll do a quick call to discuss further.
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Our stack is awesome to work with: - React Native - Redux - Relay - GraphQL - Node - PostgreSQL
Unfortunately, we cannot accept any dev bootcamp candidates right now. CS/CE-type degree and/or solid experience is required. Experience with machine learning is a plus. Experience working on consumer-scale apps is a plus.
Email [email protected] for more info. We’ll do a quick call to discuss further.
