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Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by LunaSea »

pjungwir wrote: post #62

I've only glanced at this, but I love the idea of making your API be SQL. I did this recently for a company whose customers have a lot of "power users" who are not professional programmers but use tools like R, Excel, Tableau, or even Python. The customers are very happy with it! We saved a ton of time not building a JSON API, which our customers wouldn't be able to use anyway. Basically we create a customer-specific…

A question I'm asking myself is the security one. Obviously the accessed databases only contain the customer's own information with read-only access. But how do you prevent resource exhaustion / DoS attacks trough overly complicated queries? This is the obvious vector that comes to my mind but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few other ones similar to it.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by infinite8s »

scrollaway wrote: post #42
adamballai wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great question. Sigma is more than an rdbms, relational database. Sigma is an application where you can save and share reports with your team without the need to setup a dedicated ETL pipeline and engineering teams. We curate the quality of the data for you so you don't have to yourself. Hope that helps!

> We curate the quality of the data for you so you don't have to yourself Can you be more specific?

This is a SQL interface on top of the transactional data Stripe maintains for their users (based on the orders they process).

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by mygo »

cocoflunchy wrote: post #64
mmanfrin wrote: post #25

I get excited whenever Stripe releases a new product because their demo pages are bar-none the best ever made. The attention to design is very, very nice.

Me too, but I'm disappointed this time... http://imgur.com/a/msL4T

literally the only reason I clicked the link was to see what they would do with that viewport. A little darker and less colorful than their usual work, but as a standalone piece it looks great.

except for this one major bug... http://imgur.com/a/UWrcC

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by mygo »

vijucat wrote: post #99

I'm not that familiar with Stripe, but my first impression is: why spend time on creating an inferior Metabase / Periscope / Power BI / Looker / mariusandra/insights clone? Just allow data export and if you really want to give a ready-to-use product to your customers, Metabase seems awesome for this kind of thing? Stripe could have particular constraints that I'm not aware of, but it seems to an example of not-invent…

maybe in order to help with sales and retention? can't see how it can hurt.

I was making some edits in iMovie last week when I started talking to this video production professional. He started asking me why I wasn't using something more powerful like Final Cut and judging me for it. Mind you I was using final cut at least a decade ago and knew all about its capabilities. But he failed to realize that for what I needed to do (cut clips and speed up / slow down segments and add an audio track), iMovie was simple to use and did everything I needed it to do. Lagom.

I'm willing to bet there are enough people who don't wish to complicate something simple and add another service to their workflow... and manage yet another user account... or build out custom dashboards... When all they want is to answer a simple yet important question like "which customers have not payed their invoices?"

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by j7g »

Alation is a more general solution to the data dictionary + shared workbook problem. Does anyone know if Stripe allows you to export the financial data?

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by hkarthik »

logvol wrote: post #80

Is the data freshness a joke? 2 DAYS to get data into the data warehouse? Stitch, Fivetran, Segment, and more can do way better than that without any internal hooks.... :/ > Additional processing time–up to 48 hours–is required to make your account’s transactional data available in Sigma. This means that it does not reflect your account’s most recent data and should be considered a couple days behind. The Sigma inter…

It's payments. Miss a single row and customers will balk and scream at the missing $.45 that they think they are owed. Better to buffer with a longer SLA until you feel very confident that your pipeline is bulletproof before you try to approach 24 hours or less.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by whatthemick »

EGreg wrote: post #110

Is here anything out there which * connects to a database * allows a database admin to write a query once (maybe for $50 a query) against your database * allows the query to have variables and hints in the code * visualizes the result set as various types of graphs * for each variable, lets you set values and ranges and steps etc. * runs the queries and generates reports I think this could be a good business. If you…

https://modeanalytics.com could work for you

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by [deleted] »

EGreg wrote: post #110

Is here anything out there which * connects to a database * allows a database admin to write a query once (maybe for $50 a query) against your database * allows the query to have variables and hints in the code * visualizes the result set as various types of graphs * for each variable, lets you set values and ranges and steps etc. * runs the queries and generates reports I think this could be a good business. If you…

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Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by dorianm »

exolymph wrote: post #65

A couple of people have mentioned that Baremetrics should feel threatened, and that's where my mind went immediately too. I asked Josh Pigford for his reaction, and this is what he said: > We've had beta access to it for a while and have known it was coming. Generally not worried about it at all nor do we view it as any sort of competition in any sense of the word. > It doesn't give access to any new data...it's an S…

> Baremetrics, however, is focused on telling the story

What's preventing Stripe from having a story-like dashboard?

For the record, here are some screenshots I found on Google Images of Stripe and Baremetrics's dashboards: http://imgur.com/a/s4V8u

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by alam2000 »

sovande wrote: post #17

Oh shiny, but does it blend? I mean, Stripe has a great API, great design and this, but is Stripe a good payment solution? No, it is not, especially for sellers. Fraud and charge backs are worse than with PayPal. Despite its many shortcomings, PayPal has at least a much better fraud protection system. This is what matters or should matter when choosing a payment solution. Shiny stuff is great, but if the engine is ma…

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