u/Immortal_Bs

I run a clothing boutique using my own website plus Instagram. Every time I do a drop, the DMs flood in and it's the same questions over and over. Is this in stock? What sizes are left? How much? Do you ship here? When's the next restock? I spend most of my day answering the same stuff

I've seen a few other stores running an AI chatbot that handles all of that for them, and it seems really useful. Want to do the same so I'm not stuck replying manually all day

Is anyone here using one? Which would you recommend?

Thanks!

the non technical CEO got tired of waiting 3 days for numbers that werent on existing dashboards. tested a few things with our actual data.

meta*base - open source, self hostable, question builder is decent for non technical people. natural language queries work for simple stuff and fall apart on anything with joins. solid free option.

#julius_ai - upload a csv, ask questions, get charts. my CEO could use it without help which is the real test. limitation is it works on uploaded files not live databases so someone has to export data every singllee time.

d_ench - data analysis agent connects to our warehouse directly. CEO texts it from his phone through imessage and gets answers without bugging anyone. 85 to 90% accurate on straightforward questions, flags when its unsure. not a replacement for real data science but solid for daily quick lookups.

chatgpt code interpreter - best for deep one off analysis. actual python execution behind the scenes. not connected to live data though and no persistence between sessions.

CEO now texts _DenCh for quick stuff and comes to me for the hard stuff. his dream is 75% real which is further than i expected.