[ahousley]

Thanks, Hassan!

We were originally a SaaS recommendation engine and will continue to provide a fully-managed cloud-based solution. It’s now serving recommendations on hundreds of millions of page views per month.

There are a few pretty significant technical tasks we need to complete to make the API provisioning streamlined enough to support trial accounts since there are some manual steps required to configure the metadata properly, etc.

Since we decided to go open-source last September, all of our R&D focus has been in preparing this open-source release instead of the self-serve. Streamlining our cloud service is in the roadmap, and it's now powered by the same codebase as the open-source project.

The feedback we received from developers who tried the AMI and VM are that it's super quick to get started. And as you can see we've spent a lot of time recently on documentation.

If you're interested in the hosted API, please email [e-mail].