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by gabrielrotbart 4697 days ago
Going to hijack and tell you that you've got all the right buzzwords to get me interested but I still have no idea what you're offering from the landing page.

So much so as to dissuade me from signing up (to what?)

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Thank you! I'm glad someone finally agrees with me. I keep getting overruled on this point, but I wanted to put an interactive product demo on the landing page.

Algorithmic.ly is a simple service for certain kinds of algorithms without needing to manage the infrastructure. So if you're building, say, an e-commerce site, and you want to add a feature that adds a "people who bought this item also bought these" presentation box onto each page, you can use Algorithmic.ly to build a data model, choose the "item similarity" algorithm to continuously run on your model, and then use Algorithmic.ly's REST API to push data into the model and query results from the algorithm.

I hope that help explain it, and I hope someday I'll get to build a cool interactive demo into the landing page :). For now, the conversion statistics are not helping my case for putting more on the landing page.

Guess I'm in the minority that likes to know what they sign up for.

Thanks for a solid explanation.