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Launch HN: MovingLake (YC S22) – Real-time data connectors for almost anything

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Re: Launch HN: MovingLake (YC S22) – Real-time data connectors for almost anything

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Post by aleandros »

jonheller wrote: post #38

Congrats on the launch! I do have a quick bit of feedback based solely on looking at the website: Seeing a clearly fake testimonial immediately makes me lose trust in your product. It was pretty obvious the images in your testimonials were stock images, and a quick reverse image search confirms this ( https://tineye.com/search/2f7aa5f73e0cee27b9ff54b1ad29cc8353... ). You obviously put a lot of work into your product,…

Thanks a lot for bringing this up! Yeah, you are right. Those were meant to be placeholders, not to mislead customers but should not be there. We’ll make sure to remove them!

Re: Launch HN: MovingLake (YC S22) – Real-time data connectors for almost anything

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Post by aleandros »

nub_s wrote: post #39

Congrats, this is super useful, esp. the whatsapp connector propagating in real time to google sheets opens up a lot of possibilities. I understand pricing would be based on the data volume?

Thanks a lot! Just an FYI, the google sheets destination is great for getting started but we support several destinations for more advanced usage and workflows.

Regarding pricing, you are mostly right. It is connector-dependent and volume based. Most of our connectors are charged at $0.00004USD per event.

Re: Launch HN: MovingLake (YC S22) – Real-time data connectors for almost anything

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Post by pvg »

Timja wrote: post #37
dang wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things. Maybe they thought it was offtopic, or that the terms were obvious? not sure. I've unflagged it now. When editing the launch blurbs, I usually tell founders to add explanations of any concepts or jargon that HN readers might not be familiar with. It's not always easy to know where to draw that line. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33360234 was pretty rig…

Interesting that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33360234 is considered to put other people's work down. I asked about some terms and if they are common among the HN crowd. Ako replied that people who are doing enterprise software integrations know them. Then I ask if the HN crowd is nowadays people who are doing enterprise software integrations. (Because that is not what I would associate with hackers / startup…

It's not hard to figure out what an unfamiliar (to you) product or forum community is about - by a bit of googling for the former and reading and participation for the latter. Maybe it's not your intent but you come off as if you're conducting some sort of interrogation which most people aren't all that keen on. It's also mentioned in the site guidelines:

Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Launch HN: MovingLake (YC S22) – Real-time data connectors for almost anything

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Post by ianbutler »

> We also are not huge believers in operationalizing the data warehouse, i.e. the trend to use the data warehouse as a processing tool out of which data is extracted and pushed to other systems. Since data warehouses are built on an OLAP frame of mind, we think using it as a computation source for automated workflows is not the best idea. At MovingLake we propose using rather realtime connectors with a transformation pipeline which is specifically designed to do these things.

Absolutely, I think this area is under tapped currently. Good luck, fantastic area to work on.

Re: Launch HN: MovingLake (YC S22) – Real-time data connectors for almost anything

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Post by a5seo »

jonheller wrote: post #38

Congrats on the launch! I do have a quick bit of feedback based solely on looking at the website: Seeing a clearly fake testimonial immediately makes me lose trust in your product. It was pretty obvious the images in your testimonials were stock images, and a quick reverse image search confirms this ( https://tineye.com/search/2f7aa5f73e0cee27b9ff54b1ad29cc8353... ). You obviously put a lot of work into your product,…

Hah, I thought that, too. I Googled for this person and didn’t find anything. Funny how something just didn’t seem right in that testimonial.
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