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Hard lessons2015-03-08 · Archive

Why You Should Not Build a Recommendation Engine

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“In the end it was decently well received (had some press, good user feedback, thousands of initial users) but it failed as a standalone business.”

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Why You Should Not Build a Recommendation Engine

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