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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Etai wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I’m Etai, together with Andrew a co-founder of Secoda ( https://www.secoda.co ). Secoda is a collaborative workspace for data teams that makes it easy to share metadata, queries, charts and documentation with any employee. Companies store a growing amount of knowledge in BI tools, data warehouses, data pipelines, queries and documentation. Because these tools are not connected, it has become more difficult to…

This looks really interesting. How does it differ from something like Amundsen : https://github.com/amundsen-io/amundsen

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by slownews45 »

ChrisCarde wrote: post #4

This is Chris and Robert from HeyCharge ( https://heycharge.io/ ). We're developing low-cost EV charging for indoor environments like underground parking garages. Current indoor EV chargers are expensive to buy, install, and operate, especially because they need internet connections and cloud-based backends. They're also unreliable, because even if the charger's internet connection works, the user might not have one…

EV charging in shared use / multi-family housing is still one of the harder areas to solve. So great to see more options coming - I wish you the best of luck.

One side is also regulatory. At least where I was because the building feed was not up to code, and to get charging in would hit meters, the upgrade costs were too high. Hopefully solutions can show up there as well. Love not having to have network connectivity just local.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by sergiotapia »

_2rxu wrote: post #6

We are the founders of Kodex ( https://www.kodex.us ). Kodex makes it easy for companies to process and respond to subpoenas from governments around the world. Government agencies subpoena user data from thousands of companies around the world, and companies largely rely on email, fax, and spreadsheets to manage them. At a previous job, we would frequently see companies struggle to comply with legal orders, because t…

keeping this company in my library of saas's to use.

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Post by _2rxu »

anaskar wrote: post #15
_2rxu wrote: post #6

We are the founders of Kodex ( https://www.kodex.us ). Kodex makes it easy for companies to process and respond to subpoenas from governments around the world. Government agencies subpoena user data from thousands of companies around the world, and companies largely rely on email, fax, and spreadsheets to manage them. At a previous job, we would frequently see companies struggle to comply with legal orders, because t…

love this! needed this at the last company I worked out. Was always surprised how manual and generally not secure the whole process seemed to me.

Thanks! So surprising how hard it is for companies to handle these requests. Love to learn more about your experience with it!

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Post by _2rxu »

sergiotapia wrote: post #73
_2rxu wrote: post #6

We are the founders of Kodex ( https://www.kodex.us ). Kodex makes it easy for companies to process and respond to subpoenas from governments around the world. Government agencies subpoena user data from thousands of companies around the world, and companies largely rely on email, fax, and spreadsheets to manage them. At a previous job, we would frequently see companies struggle to comply with legal orders, because t…

keeping this company in my library of saas's to use.

Great way of looking at it - good to have on deck even if you haven't yet gotten a data request, because you never know when the "flood gates" might open and bog your company down.

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lharries wrote: post #67
ycorvar wrote: post #7

Hi there! We are Orestis and Urs from Zeit Medical ( https://www.zeitmedical.com ). We enable fast stroke detection at home. 90% of strokes go untreated due to stroke recognition delays. Many patients live in fear that a stroke might happen and go unnoticed for hours, particularly if they are asleep when it starts. Stroke is currently impossible to detect based on symptoms. Unlike a heart attack, there is no distinct…

This looks fantastic! I’d love to know what are the signals and models you’re using to detect strokes? (any papers you could link to would be awesome) And what’s the accuracy like? Also, are you thinking you’ll try and sell into hospitals or purely D2C?

Thank you for the comment !!

We cannot share our models but we are using brain wave analysis to detect stroke. Our algorithm is currently tuned for maximal specificity and might be tuned differently for inpatient and outpatient use. We are in conversation with several EEG vendors for inpatient use of our algorithms.

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Post by andrewmcewen »

achllies wrote: post #71
Etai wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I’m Etai, together with Andrew a co-founder of Secoda ( https://www.secoda.co ). Secoda is a collaborative workspace for data teams that makes it easy to share metadata, queries, charts and documentation with any employee. Companies store a growing amount of knowledge in BI tools, data warehouses, data pipelines, queries and documentation. Because these tools are not connected, it has become more difficult to…

This looks really interesting. How does it differ from something like Amundsen : https://github.com/amundsen-io/amundsen

The catalog portion of the Secoda product is similar to Amundsen, but we also have a Data Dictionary for defining metrics, Analysis Documents for queries and charts, and Requests for handling data questions. We take these different pieces of functionality and make everything interconnected, so that it's one unified repository for your data knowledge.

Additionally, we try and make Secoda easy to use for both technical and non-technical users, whereas a tool like Amundsen is more focused on the technical user.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by andrewmcewen »

troelsSteegin wrote: post #69
Etai wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I’m Etai, together with Andrew a co-founder of Secoda ( https://www.secoda.co ). Secoda is a collaborative workspace for data teams that makes it easy to share metadata, queries, charts and documentation with any employee. Companies store a growing amount of knowledge in BI tools, data warehouses, data pipelines, queries and documentation. Because these tools are not connected, it has become more difficult to…

Long term, do you see yourselves in the MDM space [0]? Informally, I think of MDM as "enterprise into analytics", and my first impression of Secoda is "analytics out to enterprise". Schemas and data dictionaries seem central to both. An MDM solution like Tamr looks a lot heavier weight than I think the experience you target. [0] https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/m...

You've hit the nail on the head here. Long term we want to bridge the gap between the data team and rest of the organization through a central repository of data knowledge. Using MDM's terms the data team = IT, the rest of the organization = business, and repository of data knowledge = master data. So it's almost a one-to-one comparison, and we've never heard of MDM so this is great! We are also trying to make the experience lightweight and user friendly so that everyone is interested in exploring their company's data.

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Post by duck »

Etai wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I’m Etai, together with Andrew a co-founder of Secoda ( https://www.secoda.co ). Secoda is a collaborative workspace for data teams that makes it easy to share metadata, queries, charts and documentation with any employee. Companies store a growing amount of knowledge in BI tools, data warehouses, data pipelines, queries and documentation. Because these tools are not connected, it has become more difficult to…

You mention data lineage on your pricing page, but do you have any examples of what that looks like? Can you support custom lineages driven by an api?

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by andrewmcewen »

reilly3000 wrote: post #68
Etai wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I’m Etai, together with Andrew a co-founder of Secoda ( https://www.secoda.co ). Secoda is a collaborative workspace for data teams that makes it easy to share metadata, queries, charts and documentation with any employee. Companies store a growing amount of knowledge in BI tools, data warehouses, data pipelines, queries and documentation. Because these tools are not connected, it has become more difficult to…

This addresses key usability issues with most data initiatives. Don’t be dismayed that people who haven’t tried to share reports with teams don’t get it… I get it and I presume end users will love it. There is a particular need for metadata support in Google data studio that would be great if you could help solve: there are no folders or any real way to curate data outside of report sharing and leaving text boxes on…

Thanks for the positive message. We appreciate the support from people who understand the problem that we're trying to solve with Secoda. We haven't had someone request Google Data Studio as an integration, but if you were interested in discussing what that would look like please reach out to andrew@secoda.co. It looks like there's an API for accessing assets in Google Data Studio, so it's definitely possible.

Our most requested feature is discussion threads attached to each data resource (table, dashboard, etc) to build context around a resource. So that will be coming in the near future, and we are happy to hear you also think it would be super helpful!

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