Hacker News Reader

Very cool idea. I can't wait to play with this. I've sold similar "productized services" as a consultant. Most businesses benefit from churn, revenue/expense forecasting, and stack-rank models but not to the degree where paying in-house makes sense. I was typically brought in as part of the fund-raising process.

What is your business model?

View on HN

Thanks for the insight! We expect to keep the Google Sheets add-on free for the near future. For our business model, we are instead focusing on building fully end-to-end pipelines that use the same ML engine as for the Google Sheets add-on:

Data integration -> ML Predictions -> taking actions.

As an example, for an ecommerce store we plug into their Shopify, predict people likely to churn and send them a Mailchimp discount code.

We are running pilot projects now for these pipelines, so if you are interested do not hesitate to reach out to me on jan [at] magicsheets [dot] io

Reply on news.ycombinator.com