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bluboxsw t1_it8fsgn wrote

I would like to see something more before registering. I don't consider it free if you need to exchange personal info.

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marr75 t1_it9a9z5 wrote

You also get a very slow rate of queries once you do sign up for free.

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phraisely OP t1_itbjl63 wrote

More free queries could be helpful, I guess.The tool is free and comes with no ads (my preference at the moment). However, users hitting the server comes with a cost on the large scale of things.

I'll work on it (increasing the number of free queries, not the ads) and see what I can do :)

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marr75 t1_itblwi0 wrote

I was trying to get a feel for it and can't even remember how many queries I issued. 3-5 maybe? There was no indicator that I was using a quota (especially a quota that small) when suddenly I was told I needed to wait 224 hours for more queries.

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phraisely OP t1_itbmo8g wrote

Thanks for that. I'll work on adding a query count - at the moment the count is shown in the 'Account' section.

I agree. A more explicit count can be helpful.

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marr75 t1_itbnukd wrote

I edited down the flatly negative part of what I wrote above because you're engaging so sincerely to improve it. I can't imagine getting a feel for it without running a lot of queries (100 a month or 10 per hour or 1 per minute, something like this). On top of that, the job to be done here is a little suspect for me. Are there people who have a commercially viable need to get a phrase back for a description?

The 2 tests I wanted to try were 2 very specific words I can't remember. The first is one of those german multi-word combinations that means, "the problem is solved by the mere structure of the solution." I don't think that word is probably even in the dictionary based on the results I was getting and I also started to learn that it was giving me back short phrases instead of words, which was disappointing. The second word means "distribution preserving" and I didn't get a chance to test it but it's got latin roots and I'm skeptical phraisely has it in the dictionary, too.

Overall, I was hoping the technology on display would be more powerful. I guess I'd pay $1 for either of those words.

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phraisely OP t1_itbuaf0 wrote

Thank you. Appreciated.

To be honset, at the moment I want to play around, have fun and try to build something that could be useful, even for a little niche of users. Commercial viability comes next, I think.

I've added 'paid plans' because, well, you get support if you ask for it :)

You are probably right; the user might need to play around a little before being confident about using it. So, the number of free queries can help with that.

I'll work on it.

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phraisely OP t1_it8h3g9 wrote

Agreed. I've added an example in the post. To be clear, *only* the email address is required. *No* other information is required.

I've posted to have feedback from users. So, I would be grateful for that.

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ReginaldIII t1_it959lw wrote

Why do you need email addresses at all? Like by all means have an opt-in mailing list to talk about updates. Have a discord server for support. But why force people to provide an email address other than the paywall?

  • Try me out - Free - 3 queries per month
  • Hobby - $0.99 per 100 queries. Must use within 1 day.
  • Professional - $9 per 5,000 queries. Must use within 30 days.

I'm sorry this just isn't at all viable as a payment scheme. You are never going to gain a consistent userbase.

And realistically, if your compute requirements are high enough that this costing model is necessary then you've just learned why Netflix has never used the winning entry to it's recommender systems challenges in production, because they tend to be too computationally expensive to use in anger.

Why not look at a document retrieval system like Marqo https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo ?

Put words into Marqo as keys with blobs of text of their usage and or written definitions as the documents.

It will probably retrieve relevant words from natural language queries well enough to be used for this purpose. And it will be cheap to evaluate.

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phraisely OP t1_itbkyxo wrote

Thank you for your comment.

Email registration is to encourage responsible use and limit any misuse of the tool (or attacks). I'll work on it and see whether I can improve the free trial / registration.

Pricing depends on many factors. Probably this is not the place to discuss that. Also, they can become outdated quickly and be misleading. But this is my opinion and might be wrong :)

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