roiquant 3.2.1 release notes

We're delighted to announce the release of roiquant 3.2.1, which includes features release, new updates and issues fixes.

Released on 20-21, 25, 30-31 January & 1 February 2023 - by founders, for founders.

New

• New results view mode (idea checker): for a better user experience, we're displaying the results of your idea validation analysis on a new view-mode page.

  • In doing so, we're preventing the interruptions of new queries to be analyzed, as well as the loss of input data while waiting for the results to be ready and shown.

  • We also changed rephrased failure rate into risk of failure.

Updated

• Big data pipeline and architecture upgrade: we redesigned and improved our data pipeline and architecture into a serverless event-driven architecture to orchestrate serverless data processing workflow asynchronously for advanced real-time analytics and text analytics.

  • We upgraded our current data architecture to perform batch and interactive processing and analysis of large amount of data (millions of records/datapoints with millions and millions of features/properties) within a minute.

• Idea validation system upgrade: our serverless event-driven architecture is powering our idea checker system to compute and process large amount of data on demand with large-scale parallel workflows.

  • We also improved its accuracy through better algorithms, models, benchmarking, scoring, and recommender systems.

  • By the way, do note that if your conceptual business idea returned no similar companies in your results, it could be that your idea is truly unique and/or that our database currently does not have any records of companies offering similar product-or-service as yours.

    • Therefore, we highly encourage that you do additional research to better understand your competitive landscape.

• Profile management upgrade (previously, Data contribution): we renamed Data contribution to Profile management, enabled profile editing, and moved the access link from the help icon to account icon on the top navigation bar.

  • We also renamed Profile to Account on the top navigation bar.

  • Users can now contribute data, whether active or inactive entities, whether historical or latest datasets, whether organizations or people, to gain meaningful insights.

  • Founders who are participating in our startup competitions, your user, organization and product profiles will also be accessible and editable from this feature as well.

• Serverless APIs maintenance: we improved the serverless computing performance of our calling APIs to multiple streams of data processing.

• Update of the survival rate of private sector establishments in the United States till 2022 (postmortem analysis): we updated the dataset.

• Dashboard (numbers at a glance): we included a live count/update of the total number of roiquant users.

• Codes clean-up: we performed an overall code clean-up for everything we've built to keep our codebase clean.

Fixed

• Payment system (powered by Stripe): we caught some minor errors and fixed them, which enabled us to receive transactions from new customers. Yay!

  • Powered by Stripe, rest be assured that our payment system is secured.

• Tools - idea validation (aka, idea checker): during one of our updates, one of our roiquant users kindly reported that our idea checker wasn't working to which we've fixed the issue and it's now working perfectly.

• UI/UX fixes: we're always improving for your better experience.

  • We did a lot of changes and improvements on our overall user interface and user experience designs for both our roiquant.com (website) and app.roiquant.com (webapp).

  • If you pay attention, you'll notice the difference - every detail matters.

What we're working on and what to expect in our next release on 10 February 2023

• Developer plan - free API plan and basic API plan (powered by RapidAPI): to release our public facing APIs (under Developer Plan) on RapidAPI platform (world's largest APIs marketplace).

  • In good timing, we'll also release our public facing APIs directly on our website (self-managed; cheaper rates) as well.

    • That said, we'll continue to work with APIs marketplaces (platforms) to make our APIs easily accessible and available to the developer communities worldwide.

• http://roiquant.com (website): to revamp our homepage's design, as well as to update our products introductory pages' description and copywriting.

• Improvement of existing features: to upgrade all of our features in time for our preseed competition in 20 March till 9 June 2023.

• UX (user experience) design: we'll always improving our UX design for you.

*Note: Features release schedule is tentative and may subject to change.

What to expect in our product roadmap for first half of 2023

• No-code builder: to enable non-technical founders build MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) without needing the knowledge to write a single line of programming code in order to quickly test the market.

• Idea checker analytics, business planner analytics, and risk analytics: to continuously improve accuracy through better algorithms, models, benchmarking, scoring, and recommender systems.

  • Our researchers are improving our proprietary advanced analytics and text analytics technologies with continuous R&D.

• Pro Plan (powered by AWS Activate): to access more data via our public APIs (pay by overage model) and roiquant customers will receive up to USD $25,000 $10,000 worth of AWS credits (eligibility criteria apply).

• Database: to continuously publish more enriched data.

  • We're gradually populating our live.database from the millions of companies that we've collected because we still can't afford to host and process all of them.

*Note: Product development and roadmap may subject to change.

Announcement

• Over the past few months, we've been very very very busy with our product development and AI tech R&D, as well as preparing for our virtual preseed startup competition on 20 March till 9 June 2023.

  • In December 2022, we actually had one of our best annual team meetings to date and addressed many issues harmoniously.

  • We also secured a Silver Sponsor (Fitness Zone) and Community Partner (1337 Ventures), which we celebrated over our annual dinner.

• In addressing our team's burnout issue, we had a great rest from 24 December 2022 till 3 January 2023 to recuperate for an exciting new year!

  • We're working our best to achieve our growth milestone this year and we look forward to share this journey with you. Blessed new year, everyone!

• If you want us to add new research questions, let us know.

• Something is wrong or broken? Tweet us or write us or ping us on Discord (customer support channel).

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Last edited on 3 February 2023.