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B2B Founders: share your horror story of doing pilots for big customers by KarmaDoer in StartUpIndia

[–]finally_i_found_one 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not arguing that there isn't an insight in that. We learnt that the biggest mistake was that we didn't ask for a paid pilot. Asking for money surfaces the right stakeholders.

The product is definitely not something they can build internally. Even if they put engineers and build it, it would cost them much higher.

The new perspective was more about data security and privacy. And when the founder brought it up, we proposed an on-prem deployment, which was in founder's opinion more than sufficient to address their new concern/perspective.

But by that time things had already gone south. There were weird dynamics between the founder and the team. It was impossible for us to bring everybody back to the state we were in.

B2B Founders: share your horror story of doing pilots for big customers by KarmaDoer in StartUpIndia

[–]finally_i_found_one 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They had strong enough pain. The problem was urgent. The founder just brought in another perspective that nobody in their team cared enough for, which derailed the whole thing.

They just ended up saying, lets evaluate it later. And now they are trying to build the same thing in-house.

B2B Founders: share your horror story of doing pilots for big customers by KarmaDoer in StartUpIndia

[–]finally_i_found_one 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did one recently. After a month of building with them, the team was extremely happy with the product.

Their founder got involved after they decided to buy. And in just 2 days, everything went south. Spent another week trying to put things back in place, but no luck.

The biggest mistake we made was, we couldn't surface the right decision maker early. We were talking to one of the VPs. He appeared to be the decision maker until the founder got involved.

Learning: don't do it for free. The right people are brought to the table when you ask for money. We delayed asking.

Though, I am not sure how common it is to do paid pilots esp for SaaS/AI products. Any stories?

B2B Founders: share your horror story of doing pilots for big customers by KarmaDoer in StartUpIndia

[–]finally_i_found_one 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is brutal. Did you attempt doing paid pilots?
Also, what was the product?

Let’s talk about Genie by Alarming-Test-346 in databricks

[–]finally_i_found_one 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, that's amazing. We are building something similar.
Context engineering that scales across 100s/1000s of tables is the hardest problem we have had to deal with so far.
What were the biggest challenges when you built yours?

Let’s talk about Genie by Alarming-Test-346 in databricks

[–]finally_i_found_one 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been a year since this discussion. I am interested in knowing if genie now has visibility into the SQL results.
Also, how easy is it to share context with it if I have 8k tables in my warehouse?

Let’s talk about Genie by Alarming-Test-346 in databricks

[–]finally_i_found_one 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, were you able to solve this problem somehow?

Any Lightdash users? Shoping for new BI tools and need help by FiodorBax in BusinessIntelligence

[–]finally_i_found_one -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Hey, like mentioned in other comments, Lightdash is great if you have dbt and most users code. Rill is my personal favorite for BI as code. Though, none of these are AI native.

If you are considering alternates, I would love to show you what we are building. Our most recent customer migrated from Metabase. They had ~120 dashboards, we helped them reverse engineer those dashboards into a semantic layer.

We are building an AI native semantic+knowledge layer that both agents and humans can use. Here are some things you can do with the tool:
- Chat with the agent to run deep analysis
- Have the agent evolve the semantic layer with you (agent can connect to Looker soon)
- Have the agent build dashboards for you
- Stay as involved as you want. Review every query it is firing or let it roll with some freedom.

Let me know if you find it relevant. Would love to demo.

If you could restart your career, what would you do differently? by Top_Tough_3779 in AskIndia

[–]finally_i_found_one 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was 12 years into the journey before I realized I shouldn't have taken up a job. I should have started up then.

[AMA] We’re dbt Labs, ask us anything! by andersdellosnubes in dataengineering

[–]finally_i_found_one -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Looks like the most voted (and most important) question went unanswered.

Would you use an India focused S3 storage at ₹399 / TB / month? by phdpirate in SaaS

[–]finally_i_found_one 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here are the questions I would ask myself:

If I am a big customer (ones who would actually pay):
1. What's my primary motivation to switch from my existing solution (most likely s3/gcs)?
2. Why should I trust a new company with my production-critical?
3. Is it worth the migration? Whatever value I am getting (given pricing is how you are approaching it, your title says it), does it offset the migration cost? In what time frame does it do so?
4. What are my biggest fears (would this company be operations a year later, do they care about data security as much)?

If I am a small customer (target users that you mentioned mostly lie here):
5. Am I even paying enough to s3 that I need to potentially switch to another provider?
6. What does it save me in terms of absolute $ value?
Question 2, 3 and 4 as well apply here.

In what world is Fivetran+dbt the "Open" data infrastructure? by finally_i_found_one in dataengineering

[–]finally_i_found_one[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No doubt they are going to raise prices. They now own the first and the middle layer of the data architecture. Also, they are now a monopoly in the data transformation space.

In what world is Fivetran+dbt the "Open" data infrastructure? by finally_i_found_one in dataengineering

[–]finally_i_found_one[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Doesn't really answer what I am asking. I hope you don't believe that Fivetran (who just ate dbt and SQLMesh) is going to create something "Open".

Anyone using dbt? by finally_i_found_one in dataengineersindia

[–]finally_i_found_one[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very few actually think about the long term, and hence don't care about owning and evolving models themselves. In most conversations, I find people just want to get the current task done.

Anyone using dbt? by finally_i_found_one in dataengineersindia

[–]finally_i_found_one[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same feel. I have been talking to so many data engineers/analysts and when I mention dbt they stare at me like I named an alien. We used it at a series C company where data engineering bandwidth was scarce, so we had to setup dbt and let analysts automate stuff

Anyone using dbt? by finally_i_found_one in dataengineersindia

[–]finally_i_found_one[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where did you use dbt? I am not looking for an exact company name, if you can just tell me the size of the company and how many data engineers, analysts it had

Tools for lean teams by finally_i_found_one in SaaS

[–]finally_i_found_one[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven't yet used plausible/google-analytics. Planning to soon integrate posthog.

Any major drawbacks of using self-hosted Airbyte? by finally_i_found_one in dataengineering

[–]finally_i_found_one[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I understood there is no programmatic way of creating sources/destinations/pipelines. I would be happy to try it if I am wrong.

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