It was just meant to give a little bit of my perspective and how it might factor into the question overall.
Hello HN!It has been about three years since I launched this current iteration of my Google Sheets add-on called Flookup.I'm a solo developer and, currently, I handle absolutely everything to do with Flookup from writing code, replying support emails and even marketing. It is a lot of work but very satisfying because I get to see, first hand, how helpful it has been to my userbase.Before...
[A Case Report on Fuzzy Name Matching]In 1992, George Labovitz and Yu Sang Chang proposed the 1–10–100 principle, which suggests that the longer one takes to correct bad data, the more expensive it will be to fix it eventually. A data-centred way of putting it is this:"It will cost $1 to verify the quality of your database, $10 to clean each item in it and $100 to store each item that is not...
Otherwise, I have been causally following yours ever since you announced it on Indie Hackers ... it looks like it is going places but I'm sure COVID hasn't helped things one bit.
Let's keep pushing into the new year and hope for better times!
I have realised that too many people quit early and yet it is clear that their ideas are good. I hope many are inspired by this story, I know I was... inspired to keep on fighting.
As I said here > https://twitter.com/getflookup/status/1332767868002455554 "If you quit, you did it early"
BTW, what app is this, if you don't mind sharing?
They might be unconventional decisions but I think they work quite nicely.
You have interesting insights, especially about the value deduplication offers. In fact, apps similar to mine charge in the thousands for an annual subscription. I didn't know how much of a pain it was until I released my first paid version last year.
As for the stop words: A significant number of my users either asked for it or presented me with issues that could be solved by removing certain irrelevant text. I don't track usage patterns and such so I added the feature based on this feedback, fully trusting that the users could identify the stop words correctly.
Some of these words might be anything from TLDs to definite articles like "the"; it all depends on the user. Sometimes it's a simple word like "very" or "best", etc., and, based on the data they've shared with me, it looks like the feature was a welcome addition to Flookup.
Hehehe! #JustKidding ;)
It used to be way more "restrictive" than that, until yesterday when my unscientific analysis prompted me to make the change to 50. At this level, I felt that many users would be able to get some work done and properly test Flookup at the same time.
Of course there might be some more room for expansion and I'm willing to do it depending on user feedback and more research.
Thanks for the comment.
The subscription model is especially for those who might not want to own the product forever; like those who want to use it for a couple of months to a year and quit. Since its launch, I have seen the majority of new subscriptions shift from the monthly to the annual. And now, as of the start of this year, I have seen a bump in the lifetime subscriptions.
The other great thing about subscriptions is that you, the user, get lifetime updates/support/upgrades.
I created an add-on for Google Sheets called Flookup, and it comes both as a free version and a VERY AFFORDABLE paid version.At its core, Flookup is a fuzzy matching add-on that helps you manage text that is less than a 100% match. Beyond that it can be used to:1. Search for and match data regardless of whether it contains typos.2. Highlight and delete duplicates duplicates even if the data has...