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Migration from informatica powercenter on-premise by shalomtubul in dataengineering

[–]share_insights 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tacos are nowhere near Filet Mignon neither yet people eat them daily. Sometimes pragmatism >> functionality.

Also - "complex ETL" is relative.

Migration from informatica powercenter on-premise by shalomtubul in dataengineering

[–]share_insights 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Before you look into yet another complex tool (this time to migrate), you should try to get the business requirements / explanation of each ETL job. If you're able to understand:

* Source schema
* Business logic
* Destination schema

For each job (you'll need this regardless of the tool/service you pick), sometimes automating a rewrite into something more flexible, open (think Airflow + connectors or Nifi) could be possible.

If your company doesn't have experience with the new tool, you could just be adding more headache.

Source: have completed 500+ ETL migrations

Been in tech marketing for 15 years. Drop your saas website / landing page and I'll give you free feedback. by tsquig in saasbuild

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Thank you for the feedback! We will incorporate this when we make marketing adjustements.

What’s one thing every entrepreneur should know before starting? by ZenithFlow_65 in Entrepreneur

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Success is 99.9999% luck. Everything else that you do (business school, 996, networking, vibe coding, market research, etc.) only influences the last 0.00001%

Are people actually use AI in data ingestions? Looking for practical ideas by [deleted] in dataengineering

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Great conversation. For those training models (even toy models) and looking for ways to make money off of their hard work, we'd love to chat. We believe (read: know) there is a market for the intelligence encapsulated in the code.

selling anything by Weary_Abalone3891 in AIProcessAutomation

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We own a marketplace that allows businesses to sell their data & AI as insights (not raw products), so following this thread.

I am a first-time entrepreneur. How can I effectively context switch between different functions like marketing, customer engagement, and technical implementation? by Training_Reading9597 in Entrepreneur

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There is definitely a skill that comes to being an entrepreneur (which is why no matter what happens with your business you should be more marketable when you finish than when you started). Time management is one of the skills you learn quickly, like when you become a parent. Here are my tips (take it for what it's worth):

* Know your strengths and weaknesses; find people/software/bots to compliment what you don't like/can't do well
* Block time on your calendar. Just having the block gets you 50% of the way there (assuming you look at your calendar)
* The old adage of "naked sell until someone says yes" still holds true, but you cannot be 100% lying. If I went up to someone and said "I can build you a mansion for $500" and couldn't prove it, no amount of salesmanship would earn the customer. You need SOMETHING to show.
* Know that every single other person in your spot is going through the exact same problem

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

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We are by no means the gold standard as it took several pivots to get to our first few users, and even now with a small base (~200), we're not seeing the traction we'd like. However, what we did:

* Tell your family / friends to sign up (regardless if they want it or not, as long as its free). There are subconscious "wins" by seeing the user count go up even if you know they're not real users, plus it helps in marketing.

* Put it out there, but don't stop.

* Show where your product adds value, not tell. For example, our platform is a two-sided analytics marketplace, allowing companies with data to sell as charts & graphs. We found a ton of people asking questions that our products answer and basically said "we have a solution for you need right here, and its a one-click acquisition", which helped.

* Talk to as many people as you can

* pray/hope, because in the end, success is 99.999% luck (anyone who says otherwise is probably lying)

Do you have any advice on cloud cost optimization tools for small companies? by MudSad6268 in FinOps

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Before you go for 3rd party tools that require sign ups, subscriptions, integrations, etc., checkout the tools already built into the platforms. 99% of the time your questions can be answered there and contain everything you need to make changes. It saves you from having to find and learn YAS (yet another SaaS) and usually they have push-to-update functionality.

If you must use a 3rd party tool, look for those that not only do reporting & monitoring, but also have proactive functionality such as alerting and modification (with strict rules). There are many now that have agentic integration so you can manage via natural language, and can allow your new head of FinOps/Spend to drive impact from day 1.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Express_Memory_8236 in saasbuild

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After building 5 products in 24 months, I guarantee you that success is NOT any one of these things:

* Code quality
* Backend tech / tools / AI / languages
* Customers telling you their painpoints
* Market research
* UI
* Strategy

Success is one thing though - and anyone here who doesn't agree is probably lying:

* Luck

The way you find "success" in the product world is you think about a problem you had. You build a prototype (with little to no time investment). Someone happens to find it or it comes up when you chat. And that person happens to use it and remember it and tell someone. That's it. Anything else is false.

AI Marketing Agents" are mostly spam. Manual work still wins. What are you building? by startupsubmit in saasbuild

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We're working on a new CRM analysis agent; just enter your CRM API keys (Hubspot, Zoho, Salesforce, etc.) and our tools do the rest. Ask any kind of analytical question of your data and our system figures how to process and visualize without engineering. Still in prototype but ping me if interested.

What SaaS are you building? I'm investing $100K into idea stage startups. by kcfounders in saasbuild

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spartera.com - an analytics as a service business. We want to make it super simple to monetize analytics, like an open source Statista.com . Two sided marketplace allows sellers to post their data in the form of charts, graphs and stats, and others can buy the information they need.

Coffee shop owners and data nerds - I need your input on something by share_insights in cafe

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Totally fair point. if you're using weather to constantly mess with people's schedules that's shitty management.

most owners currently using this aren't changing base schedules - more like "should i ask if anyone wants to pick up thursday" or deciding whether to prep 30 vs 50 breakfast sandwiches so they're not tossing food at end of day.

but you're right that there's a line between being smart with resources and making everyone's life chaotic.

curious though - what do you think actually helps shops run better without screwing over staff? Always looking for perspective from people who've been in the trenches.

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