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As I say: doing things that don't scale is like children wetting the bed when they're asleep. It feels great and warm, but the desired course is to wake up, clean up, and grow.

Jesting aside, can you share more about your project and give more context?

>I feel like I am trying to boil the ocean and it has been overwhelming with the amount of data I need to sift through.

Which data are you sifting through to do what?

>Quantitative framework for app research and discovery for your business

This seems interesting, but what does this mean? Could you explain this to someone like me?

Does it mean that, as a business looking for an app, I type in some search terms and you'll return a comparative report with treemaps for features or something similar to what the Observatory of Economic Complexity does[0]?

- [0]: https://oec.world/

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The primary purpose of the tool to is to surface what a software application is good at by bench-marking the features & functionality across the whole category(s) that the app in question belongs to.

Most of my time goes into normalizing feature set across a category of software so that you can do apples-to-apples comparison. Then I am quantifying how well that feature is implemented within the product, hopefully extrapolate that to the whole category, essentially a ranking system for the features. To do that, I need to collect and normalize those feature sets.

W.r.t. treemap, I am trying different visualization techniques and seems like treemap is pretty good in answering these questions quickly:

1. Which product is a dominant product in a particular category?

2. Which feature dominates a product/category?

After doing a few user interviews people honestly don't care about the ranking or a better framework to search for software. They mostly care about how can software evaluation and procurement can be less painful.

Thanks for the comment and sharing the link of eoc. That's pretty much what I am trying to do for apps.

I hope to extend this to libraries/packages which can be very helpful in knowing what are the strengths of a particular library or package in a snapshot.

>The primary purpose of the tool to is to surface what a software application is good at by bench-marking the features & functionality across the whole category(s) that the app in question belongs to.

> 1. Which product is a dominant product in a particular category?

> 2. Which feature dominates a product/category?

Like Gartner Quadrants and Forrester Waves?

Is there an early version we could look at and play with?

There's someone who's commented[0] on another thread about benchmarking hardware and shared a link[1]. Might be useful.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25014690

- [1]: https://www.spec.org/benchmarks.html

Thanks for sharing the link! I am targeting to have a external access over next couple of weeks. I will either message you here or you can sign up for the newsletter ;)

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