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Pre-Participation Screening for Football Player in Europe, USA and Libya
Article URL: https://journalofsportsmedicine.org/full-text/280/eng
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185322
Points: 1
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AI doesn't stand a chance against actors, or Shakespeare: Ben Affleck
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/11/13/ai-doesnat-stand-a-chance-against-actors-or-shakespeare-ben-affleck-says.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185314
Points: 1
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Ask HN: Roast my B2B SaaS idea? Productionising data warehouses
Hey all, excited to pitch you Garam, my B2B SaaS start-up idea. Looking forward to some roasting here :)
Product
What is it: an out-of-the-box data warehouse. In other words, a single “enterprise-glue” platform that contains ETL/ELT, a data warehouse and a semantic layer specifically tailored to B2B SaaS companies (eg., includes templated code for MRR, ARR, subscriptions, sales pipelines, etc).
Use case: Garam simplifies the data journey for start-ups. At the moment, start-ups need to pay for an expensive data team and a fragmented data stack. It takes ages to build a data warehouse. Worst of all, the data modelling only starts then, and the chaotic nature of this work results in inaccuracies.
Most of the code written by data engineers is similar across business models, and thus can and should be productionised. This templated semantic layer is the USP of Garam.
Who would want it: B2B SaaS start-ups that have scaled to the point that they cannot rely on spreadsheets for their data infrastructure anymore.
Product analysis
*Competitors:*The fact that the direct competitors have launched only recently suggests two things to me: the problem shows validation and the timing could not be better for me to launch. Happy to be challenged on this.
A few recently-launched start-ups offer something similar (eg., pliable.co, agiledata.io, arch.dev). However, they focus on no-code interfaces or they cater to data consultancies. To me, these are solutions that will not scale for start-ups, the same way that a no-code website builder hits its limits very soon.
Traditional data stack tools which are too technical, need to be “glued together” and offer no modelling (cube.dev, DBT, etc.)
Data consultancies (their offer does not scale and is a lot more expensive).
Key difference: two things: enterprise glue and templated metrics. In addition, this semantic layer comes with built-in data quality checks and automated documentation (once again, in 99% of companies order IDs should not be duplicate or NULL. This is business logic that can be templated; data engineers should not replicate this work across companies).
Customer conversion strategy: probably SaaS events, startup accelerators, etc. This is something to work out once the MVP is ready. Advice welcome.
Stage: designing the MVP, very early stages.
Why me?: 7+ years of experience as a head of analytics (incl. leading +20 data engineers and data analysts) at both start-ups and scale-ups. I have led several data modelling initiatives, built full-fledged data warehouses from scratch, etc. These experiences have helped me realise that there is a gap in the market, and I want to contribute to productionising this process.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185310
Points: 1
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Technology and Grieving
Article URL: https://www.readmargins.com/p/technology-and-grieving
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185309
Points: 1
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Show HN: An AI street hawker that negotiates and sells licorice
Article URL: https://edwardbenson.com/2024/11/the-worlds-first-ai-street-hawker
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185300
Points: 1
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The Heirloom Bean Revolution with Steve Sando [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOV1u_jdqng
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185296
Points: 2
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Boltz-1: fully open-source protein model matching AlphaFold 3 performance [pdf]
Article URL: https://gcorso.github.io/assets/boltz1.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185291
Points: 1
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Tales of 19th-Century A.I.: Don't Fall in Love with a Singing Robot
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/arts/dance/automatons-19th-century-ai.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185283
Points: 1
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New theory reveals the shape of a single photon
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-theory-reveals-photon.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185280
Points: 1
# Comments: 1
Generative AI Usage and Exam Performance [pdf]
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19699
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185270
Points: 1
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Comparing full text search algorithms: BM25, TF-IDF, and Postgres
Article URL: https://emschwartz.me/comparing-full-text-search-algorithms-bm25-tf-idf-and-postgres/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185269
Points: 2
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Bose buys McIntosh, storied maker of high-end luxury audio equipment
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/bose-buys-mcintosh-storied-maker-of-high-end-luxury-audio-equipment.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185266
Points: 2
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Hyper in Curl Needs a Champion
Article URL: https://seanmonstar.com/blog/hyper-in-curl-needs-a-champion/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185254
Points: 2
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FreeCAD 1.0 Released with UI/UX Improvements, New Materials System
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeCAD-1.0-Released
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185252
Points: 1
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Observable: Embedded Analytics
Article URL: https://observablehq.com/blog/announcing-embedded-analytics
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185248
Points: 1
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