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I'm really having trouble understanding the value here. Is there something more to this company than line charts?

There's a lot of value in being a central storehouse for a LOT of data, in my opinion. Combine that with tools to easily do the comparisons (correlations, regressions, etc.) between different sets of data then adds a huge amount of value to a lot of people. Business/financial types in particular...

I admit to being biased, though; I know the founders and they're all really great and wicked smart guys. :)

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the Timetric team, though I don't recognise myself from Jed's description!)

There's also the API and the ability to build models which get updated when the underlying data's updated. Timetric is much more a time series database with visualization on the top than it's a visualization service which incidentally happens to be a data store.

If anyone out there needs a time series database backend for something they're building, get in touch with us: we'd love to talk with you.

I believe thats it - upload and share data.

I think the smarts comes in comparing multiple data sets, over time.

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