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> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails.
"Without signups or emails" definitely implies without credit card authorization!
I can understand the business imperatives (I am a PM at a start-up :)), but can you please make a decision on actually having the sign up flow work without friction (Think Slack / dropbox etc). You can always iterate and find the right thing to charge for but developers are a demanding bunch especially with tooling!
How about just not having one? i am often interested to try things but I am not giving out my CC until I've tried it out, FOMO be damned. I don't want the burden of cancellation if I decide it's not for me, I've been burned before by forgetting and paying for a service I didn't want.
We think this is the most sustainable option because there is a cost to providing a quality service. We take a small loss on every user who cancels their free trial - more than a typical SaaS because AI models are expensive to serve.
Personally I only need about 30 minutes with a code autocompletion LLM to see if it will do what I want without pissing me off (and maybe even making me smile!)
How about taking the CC but not subscribing the user. As in the CC is used only to verify the user but I have to subscribe once I consume my free credits (even though the CC is on file).
Your privacy policy[0] doesn't seem to mention any of this. How is the data being used? I'm not very certain about inputting my data into any tool that uploads to cloud and there's no valid privacy policy
> Our Services may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by Supermaven, Inc. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party websites.
Is this actually good enough? Can companies just hand over data to other companies and then claim to not be responsible for the consequences of that?
I had the idea for the technology first and decided that code completion was the application where it would be the most useful. It's a proven market with Copilot having over $100M ARR.
There are lots of other potential use cases for the technology, but they involve more business risk (ie, the risk that you create a technically sound product that isn't very useful).
As far as I can tell, it suggests one token at a time and uses its model to help rank these tokens. This is useful, but there is a lot to be gained by suggesting multiple tokens at once.
TabNine has always included a logistic regression model to help rank completions. It uses features such as the occurrence frequency of the token and the number of similar contexts in which it occurs.
sm-agent.exe is supposed to be started as a subprocess by the extension. It shouldn't be in its own window.