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kashishg

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About kashishg

hightouch.io (YC S19)

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    Comment #29195292

    Thanks! Here's some more info on the git integration if you're curious: https://hightouch.io/blog/announcing-git-sync-back-your-sync...

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    Comment #29195017

    Then you could say the same thing about Hightouch and Segment. Segment == Rudderstack for all intensive purposes. The way it's differentiated is that Rudderstack does event collect…

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    Comment #29194081

    Thank you for the kind words :) We are just getting started!

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    Comment #29192733

    we started building this one August 2020 but honestly just had a lot of fun working on the design and UX! Conveying your feedback to him now!

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    Comment #29192626

    On a high level, ETL/ELT is about sending data from your SaaS tools into your data warehouse (you are reading from different tools). Reverse ETL is about getting data from your war…

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    Comment #29191003

    Great question! We have a whole page about this here ( https://hightouch.io/blog/hightouch-vs-census/ ). But the TLDR is that Hightouch has more developer focused features (like a …

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    Comment #29190605

    Yes, Clickhouse is a top priority source for us to build next to enable real-time analytics (we already support Rockset as a source used by customers like Seesaw). Would love to le…

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    Comment #29190417

    Thanks so much for your support from the very beginning! We've only been in market publicly for a little over a year now actually. We figured better late than never (and it still f…

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    Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools

    Hey HN! Kashish, Tejas, and Josh here. We’re building Hightouch ( https://www.hightouch.io/ ), a reverse ETL platform— that is, software that gets your data back out of your data w…

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    Comment #28238174

    We would love feedback on our approach and to learn how you are doing this at your company!

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    Comment #20339205

    We're partnered with a travel agency with GDS access. Additionally, we use various other OTAs that give us the full range of inventory for hotels and flights. In general, travel ag…

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    Comment #20339086

    I wonder why enterprise tools end up this way, is it because the buyer (CFO/procurement) is different from the end user (employees)?

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    Comment #20338996

    We too are hopeful that the narrower scope will allow our economics to work out!

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    Comment #20338455

    Recently discovered that Google flights not only has a matrix when you're choosing dates, but also has an even better one after you've already chosen dates to view the price differ…

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    Comment #20338375

    This one is the best by far, Google Flights 2nd place. Sometimes our agents even use the Skyscanner matrix for our users because it's so good.

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    Comment #20337943

    We've heard a lot about flightfox! We're focused employee-first so that we can build a tool that employees their managers for, but that being said, several of our corporate custome…

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    Comment #20337866

    Yes! We're working on the calendar integration :) We find that several business users will omit calendar because of privacy or because they don't keep them up to date, but power us…

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    Comment #20337838

    We've been playing around with the SaaS idea that you described, because there are 80k+ travel agents in the US and they are underutilized! We eventually decided that performing th…

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    Comment #20337719

    You're right, flights/travel is so mission critical that we don't see "AI" taking over this workflow anytime soon. There will be a real person verifying every decision for the near…

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    Comment #20337697

    Thanks Adhityaa! So cool that you found us on here! You're so right, there are no solutions that focus on point A -> B door-to-door, and we've found that the reason for that is tha…