Within 48 hours of needing to do some masking (exporting data from a database to CSV to import it to a less trusted domain's database for testing/benchmarking), I ran across your HN post and tool.
A pair of us had started with a different masking approach I knew was dumb but would work, but I mentioned Greenmask to the guy working with me doing masking as something to perhaps look at to see if it'd help us later/next-time.
He apparently took me up on it more aggressively than I anticipated and today he indicated he had looked at it and found it hard to understand how to use it (documentation-wise). I.e. he tried it but didn't really get anywhere.
I'm not sure precisely what he meant but my perception from whatever he said (I wasn't trying to gather feedback for you at the time) was he didn't have/see any example code showing the different things he could do.
Having skimmed your documentation for 3 minutes just now, I am inclined to agree. Additionally I would observe that your Show HN bullet explanation of your product is actually clearer/tighter than your official documentation page, where my impatient eye tends to glaze over after a few bullets of stuff I am not sure if I care about...
Hi! Thank you for the feedback. I completely understand your concern and agree with you. It can indeed be difficult to get started, and we need to provide clearer use cases with examples to demonstrate the basic concepts and features. I’ll be working on revising the documentation soon to make it easier to follow.
May I ask how often and in what situations you deal with data import tasks like these? This would help me better understand the issue and make the product more user-friendly. I would appreciate your input.
Export/import without masking, a few times a year, with masking generally not required.
This was my first masking in recent times, but I may have half a dozen more times in the next year if/as we do more POCs with full data volumes to figure out price/performance trafeoffs...
Within 48 hours of needing to do some masking (exporting data from a database to CSV to import it to a less trusted domain's database for testing/benchmarking), I ran across your HN post and tool.
A pair of us had started with a different masking approach I knew was dumb but would work, but I mentioned Greenmask to the guy working with me doing masking as something to perhaps look at to see if it'd help us later/next-time.
He apparently took me up on it more aggressively than I anticipated and today he indicated he had looked at it and found it hard to understand how to use it (documentation-wise). I.e. he tried it but didn't really get anywhere.
I'm not sure precisely what he meant but my perception from whatever he said (I wasn't trying to gather feedback for you at the time) was he didn't have/see any example code showing the different things he could do.
Having skimmed your documentation for 3 minutes just now, I am inclined to agree. Additionally I would observe that your Show HN bullet explanation of your product is actually clearer/tighter than your official documentation page, where my impatient eye tends to glaze over after a few bullets of stuff I am not sure if I care about...