Oliver, Anton congrats with a launch. RecSys analyst here.
Correct me if I wrong, but afaiu, you have designed a black-box content-based recommender system for e-commerce domain by scrapping publicly available data.
I love your business model, though I have a couple questions:
1. A/B testing in RecSys is a tricky process in terms of further interpretation. How do you choose the control and test group? I would love to go beyond revenue percentage influx while considering the new model. Btw, do you have your own A/B testing environment?
2. Are you targeting one specific problem, like cold start or checkout recommendation or have a general solution?
3. Are you planning to open-source your model?
4. Do you have any Wordpress/Shopify plugins?
Anyway, I really like your idea and would love to contribute.
1. In order for e-stores to trust the results, we tend to use Google Optimize for the A/B-tests (which randomly assigns 50% of users to see the stores' previous recommendations)
2. Currently our main focus are recommendations on the product page - but we do aim to also add our recommendations in other spaces, where the checkout & landing pages are some clear alternatives! Mostly a bandwidth question at this point.
3. We might open-source parts of it sometime in the future, thought it's not something we're currently considering actively.
4. Not yet! We integrate by injecting a JS widget on their site, through which we also track the user behaviour.
Correct me if I wrong, but afaiu, you have designed a black-box content-based recommender system for e-commerce domain by scrapping publicly available data. I love your business model, though I have a couple questions:
1. A/B testing in RecSys is a tricky process in terms of further interpretation. How do you choose the control and test group? I would love to go beyond revenue percentage influx while considering the new model. Btw, do you have your own A/B testing environment?
2. Are you targeting one specific problem, like cold start or checkout recommendation or have a general solution?
3. Are you planning to open-source your model?
4. Do you have any Wordpress/Shopify plugins?
Anyway, I really like your idea and would love to contribute.
Let's stay in touch via twitter: @kidrulit.