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358 points timsehn | 1 comments | 30 Mar 20 20:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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peteforde ◴[31 Mar 20 03:02 UTC] No.22734564[source]▶
Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774

I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data contests with The Economist - but at the end of the day, we couldn't find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve.

I wish these folks luck! Perhaps things have changed; we were part of a flock of 5 or 10 similar projects and I'm pretty sure the only one still around today is Kaggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4

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sjtindell ◴[31 Mar 20 03:25 UTC] No.22734677[source]▶
Just want to say, really appreciate this food for thought. Where do you go and see someone say "my company tried it and...". This site is a godsend.
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1. austinjp ◴[31 Mar 20 08:30 UTC] No.22735831[source]▶
Agreed, it's always refreshing to read candid posts like this. A useful term for Google is "startup post mortem" although you still have to do plenty of sifting.