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What is the product? It's really hard to figure from the home page, so I looked up on the web and found this[1] > Today, we are excited to announce that Mars,

What is the product? It's really hard to figure from the home page, so I looked up on the web and found this[1] > Today, we are excited to announce that Mars, Seyi, and I have teamed up to start Metaphor Data, a company dedicated to building out the DataHub ecosystem. Our mission at Metaphor Data is to help all organizations better understand and manage their data through the power of the metadata knowledge graph. So, it's DataHub (hosted I guess) and ... something else? But I'm still not sure what this "ecosystem" is. [1] https://pardhugunnam.medium.com/announcing-metaphor-data-c86170c81202 https://pardhugunnam.medium.com/announcing-metaphor-data-c86...

tedmiston 5y ago
Yeah, the post didn't do a good job of explaining what their product actually is / does. Their About page is similarly vague: > We are on a mission to empower individuals and companies to change the world through data. This mission started when we created DataHub at LinkedIn. We’re leveraging the learnings from that experience to build a modern, scalable, and cloud-first data catalog and discovery service. It sure sounds like vaporware from that description. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ All I could gather from their website is that they catalog schemas across various databases / data warehouses. It looks like the team is all engineers — they could really use a marketing & comms person…
marslan2000 5y ago
Thank you for your interest. We launched our product about 2 months ago. You can find out more about the problems Metaphor is solving here: https://metaphor.io/blog/metaphor-product-launch https://metaphor.io/blog/metaphor-product-launch
- virgilp 5y ago
  I still don't fully get what the product is. In the launch, you state that "Metaphor has its root in DataHub [...] However, Metaphor is not a managed version of DataHub". My observation: - perhaps intentionally, but you really go to great lengths to obfuscate what the product actually does. How is it NOT DataHub? Is it a new implementation of DataHub? Is it extending DataHub somehow? (I would expect the latter, but it's unclear exactly how it extends it, and you never mention exactly how it's different). - it's very weird to place that important description in "who we are" (I almost skipped it), instead of e.g. "How does Metaphor work". - lastly, I kinda' feel that this needs to be in the homepage somewhere, not in a blog post somewhere. Not sure who you're targeting with your marketing copy - but if you're targeting engineers who'd deploy a data catalog, this can't be all fluff. Give me something concrete that I can work with: I'm interested in the domain, I want to implement this in my company, but I need to understand what you're offering. Saying that you have a "platform" tells me nothing. Tell me why I should use Metaphor instead of e.g. deploying DataHub myself.
  - marslan2000 5y ago
    Appreciate the feedback. We'll work on improving the clarity in our messaging.

tedmiston 5y ago

Yeah, the post didn't do a good job of explaining what their product actually is / does. Their About page is similarly vague: > We are on a mission to empower individuals and companies to change the world through data. This mission started when we created DataHub at LinkedIn. We’re leveraging the learnings from that experience to build a modern, scalable, and cloud-first data catalog and discovery service. It sure sounds like vaporware from that description. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ All I could gather from their website is that they catalog schemas across various databases / data warehouses. It looks like the team is all engineers — they could really use a marketing & comms person…

marslan2000 5y ago

Thank you for your interest. We launched our product about 2 months ago. You can find out more about the problems Metaphor is solving here: https://metaphor.io/blog/metaphor-product-launch https://metaphor.io/blog/metaphor-product-launch

virgilp 5y ago
I still don't fully get what the product is. In the launch, you state that "Metaphor has its root in DataHub [...] However, Metaphor is not a managed version of DataHub". My observation: - perhaps intentionally, but you really go to great lengths to obfuscate what the product actually does. How is it NOT DataHub? Is it a new implementation of DataHub? Is it extending DataHub somehow? (I would expect the latter, but it's unclear exactly how it extends it, and you never mention exactly how it's different). - it's very weird to place that important description in "who we are" (I almost skipped it), instead of e.g. "How does Metaphor work". - lastly, I kinda' feel that this needs to be in the homepage somewhere, not in a blog post somewhere. Not sure who you're targeting with your marketing copy - but if you're targeting engineers who'd deploy a data catalog, this can't be all fluff. Give me something concrete that I can work with: I'm interested in the domain, I want to implement this in my company, but I need to understand what you're offering. Saying that you have a "platform" tells me nothing. Tell me why I should use Metaphor instead of e.g. deploying DataHub myself.
- marslan2000 5y ago
  Appreciate the feedback. We'll work on improving the clarity in our messaging.