Hi guys! I'd like to ask for advice ❤️ Our user base growth is slow. We discovered that 90% of people downloading it don't get through the first steps – our onboarding and guidance sucks and we are working on it right now. Fixing it will take us a few weeks. So, we come to an idea to manually onboard users by building any data analytics / data-driven process automation for companies that they need (for free and with no additional license cost - our product is Open Source and Free on Desktop usage). Our product, Enso (https://enso.org) is really powerful - think of it like about Alteryx (https://alteryx.com, $500M ARR), but more interactive, with better visualisations, and worse onboarding. I would be very, very thankful for any advice on how to find / reach out to companies who might benefit from using Enso and would allow us to grow the user base faster. Would you mind sharing some ideas? :)

hi Sylwia 👋 I work in the data tooling / BI space as well. Happy to chat more about this!

Hi! Amazing, I will DM you 🙂

I've downloaded and uninstalled enso a few times (since back when it was Luna). Each time I really want it to work but have found myself disappointed. Last time I did this was a few weeks ago when it hit hacker news. I ran into quite a few issue using it including long (multiple minute) freezes. I was trying to process a 2mb json file and I could not get it to work without locking up after multiple attempts. That said, I'd absolutely love a tool like enso, so if you every want to chat happy to help as well :)

I've had a similar experience - been following the project for a long time and like a lot of the ideas. Unfortunately, one big caveat for slightly larger projects was how you'd get so many default variable names that started to make anything long unwieldy. The text/visual syntax is cool, but the default naming scheme and even in the tutorials suggesting you to just link nodes (thus creating a ton of

operator7

etc.) means that you lose a lot of semantic meaning when going back to understand the code. Just like how using single characters for all your variables in standard languages is bad practice, this default naming really gets in the way of maintaining and understanding code - a problem that the visual interface was supposed to solve, not introduce. I'm sure there could be interesting ideas of working around it (direct links convert to pipe-like syntax, only when multiple nodes refer to the same one is a name prompted for, etc.)

Sylwia, I'm happy to help - I've built and sold companies in the data analytics space, Let me know if I can be of assistance