{"id":332,"date":"2011-06-27T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T09:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thoughtflow.dk\/?p=332"},"modified":"2018-11-04T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T09:05:46","slug":"antecons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/antecons\/","title":{"rendered":"Antecons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/really.html\">Release fast and iterate<\/a>&#8220;. In some parts of the computing world this is the mantra and I think it&#8217;s time for an early announcement: Metacircle has now released an actual product (kind of). It is called <em>Antecons<\/em>, short for antecedent &#8211; consequent. Antecons is a small and simple component that suggests items based on previous usage data (such as purchases) and it is currently being tested on <a href=\"http:\/\/vildmedvin.dk\">vildmedvin.dk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I create Antecons? Well, there are several reasons, actually.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I love data mining and business intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Good recommendation engines improve conversion rates and thus profit for e-businesses.<\/li>\n<li>Recommendation engines are not available to everyone at a low price. Most current solutions like <a href=\"http:\/\/avail.net\">avail.net<\/a> target big companies and corporations. Antecons targets everyone.<\/li>\n<li>People have already shown interest in Antecons. This includes my faithful partners at <a href=\"http:\/\/mcb.dk\">MCB<\/a> as well as the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.removethebackground.com\/\">Remove The Background<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s keep it real. The business intelligence market is very competitive and many companies are years of research ahead of me. I do not plan to steal their customers. I plan on making advanced technology available to the masses.<\/p>\n<p>In its current form, Antecons is simply a .NET DLL component with a public API for interacting with Antecons. It needs access to an SQL server and will thus only work with ASP.NET applications. I am currently exploring the possibilities of making Antecons a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product and a proof-of-concept prototype is being built for the Google App Engine, although it has not been finally decided where to host the first SaaS version. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antecons.net\">check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Antecons gains traction, I will give up consulting and work solely on making it an excellent and easy-to-use product. For now, it has been a major personal success to see something get out there. I hope the interest continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Release fast and iterate&#8220;. In some parts of the computing world this is the mantra and I think it&#8217;s time for an early announcement: Metacircle has now released an actual product (kind of). It is called Antecons, short for antecedent &#8211; consequent. Antecons is a small and simple component that suggests items based on previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4,37],"tags":[147,71,70,35,48],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antecons","category-news","category-projects","tag-antecons","tag-business-intelligence","tag-data-mining","tag-metacircle","tag-webservice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}