I'm obviously biased because we've been in the same YC batch, but I just want to say that one thing that always impressed me about you guys is how obsessed you were with building the best product you could.
When you explained how you had just reimplemented the CSS spec I was mindblown.
Unfortunately, that's not possible yet. We want to fix that, but very few people use public pages, and even fewer use public dashboards, so we didn't prioritize it.
Thanks for reporting it, it helps us understand what people want!
At this stage, we're putting a lot of effort into "selling" the (free) community tier because (1) that leads to great feedback and (2) the vast majority of paying customers come from the free tier anyway.
We want the free tier to be so good it becomes the new notebook standard - and then we'll only charge for features that companies need, like Slack integrations or a large number of seats.
Regarding AI, we currently go with GPT-4o by default, but you can change it on the settings panel. Currently, we have only enabled GPT-4o and Mistral though, but we want to add more - it's just not our priority right now because the OpenAI model is just incredibly good.
I strongly agree with your comment. I'm a software engineer and I was surprised to find out about the practices of some data teams.
I do believe we should bring software best practices to the data world, not only regarding code design but regarding infrastructure and tooling too (like versioning everything).
Still, I get where they're coming from. A software engineer would also be frustrated if they had to learn everything a data scientist knows (probably even more).
I think the tooling itself can solve this issue by encouraging best practices though.
The data itself is indeed a problem. More than that, I'd add that the very definition of what's being measured or calculated is an even bigger problem (i.e. what's an active user?)
Still, I think that we can get to a place where everyone uses the same tool to collaborate on data matters, like a "Retool for data/BI". At a high-level, that's the direction we're going, and we're starting with notebooks and dashboards.
Just my 2 cents. Somehow got a chance to look into the competitive landscape. And found that which ever ICP to start with there's no immediate reason for adoption.
But who knows? Back in 90s no one knows they need an iPhone. Wish all the luck for your journey onwards.
Lan parties were probably the best part of my teenage years.
Also, the terrace part is amazing.
I miss the good old days of playing DotA (the old one) the whole night while drinking coke and eating pizza with friends.