Re:Launch HN: Shaped (YC W22) – AI-Powered Recommendations a...
by astronautas on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @12:05PM
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How does this compare to Vespa? If the key difficulty in scaling search is infra as you say, Vespa is an interesting alternative.
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Re:Launch HN: Shaped (YC W22) – AI-Powered Recommendations a...
by tullie on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @12:23PM
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Compared to Vespa, we're much easier to get setup on. A big part of this is that we have real-time and batch connectors to all leading CDPs and data warehouses. E.g. if you're on Amplitude it takes < 10mins to stream data directly to Shaped and start seeing initial results.
Being quicker to setup, also means it's quicker to build and experiment with new use-cases. So you can start with a feed ranking use-case the first week and then move to an email recommendation use-case the next week.
In terms of actual performance and results, we've never gone head-to-head in an A/B test so i'm not sure the specifics there honestly!
Re:Launch HN: Shaped (YC W22) – AI-Powered Recommendations a...
by astronautas on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @03:04AM
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Thanks, so it's connectors, nice differentiators. Seamless integrations are harder than it seems.