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Products that do what Census – Export for data warehouses does
Hello Hacker News! We're a team of YC founders (Meldium W13, Draft S11, TapEngage S11) launching something new (https://www.getcensus.com). How many times has your business team asked you to generate yet another CSV file, write a ”quick report” in SQL, or send some custom data to a terrible API (looking at you Marketo)? We’ve built a product that connects directly to your data warehouse and syncs into apps like Salesforce, Customer.io and even Google Sheets. In fact, your business teams won’t even need to rely on engineering to manage all these pipelines. The tech stack for…
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This is niche, I'll admit. I needed to look through the latest census data, but it was exported as multiple multi-gigabyte bespoke latin1-encoded CSV files. Pandas, Polars, and SQLite's CSV import tool weren't much help, so I shelved the project until recently, when I started taking a SQLite course online. I picked it up again, normalized the data, and now there's a database that can be queried through a SQL view that matches the headings in the original CSVs. I'm proud of the script I created to export the data, as well as automatically compress the artifact, make the diagrams and…
2024 · github.com
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2016 · alphasheets.com
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Hi there Hacker News, I've started a side project http://datasourcehub.com which aims to be a platform for data scientists. The project is still in the idea phase so the UI/UX and functionality are all subject to change. Feel free to play around, below is a guest login, and make sure files are content type of 'text/csv'. All data is subject to deletion, it's just a sandbox right now! By reaching out to the Hacker News community I hope to reach expert data scientists and get their feedback. Below are some questions I'd like to answer and some proposed directions that this…
2013
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2020 · getcensus.com
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We’re launching an API to export data to Statwing, our easy-to-use data analysis tool (YC S12). If your app produces or collects data that your users want to analyze, we can help them get more value out of that data. Your users would one-click “Export to Statwing” from your app and be directed to their data in Statwing, ready for analysis. We use behind-the-scenes statistical analysis to make it dead simple to quickly summarize and find relationships in data, so our users tell us they analyze data ~5x faster than in Excel or traditional statistical tools. It’s free to you, and free to your…
2013
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Hi HN, https://companies.bx.tc My colleague and I put together this tool for easily searching UK company data. We run a few server side batches daily to extract data from various government sources before linking it all together in (what is now) a fairly large database. We're also using this project as a way to test out a new JS UI library we built (similar to Vue, but a bit faster) to see how it stands up in a real project. We'd love to hear your feedback and any ideas you have for how we can improve the dashboard! Thanks :)
2020
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Please give me some feedback on my weekend/evening project http://ycpages.info YCPages is a CrunchBase sort of service just for YC funded companies. Company/founder details are pulled from CrunchBase using their API. I have checked founders info by looking their LinkedIn pages/Twitter etc. So i am confident 95% information available on YCPages are accurate. Next Steps, == Adding the Tech Stack info == Rankings from Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, etc If I can get the founders answer few of my question about their experience I will add them as well. Any feedback would be highly appreciated.…
2011
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Hey HN! Vinesh, Ian, and Kunal here. We’re building Bracket (YC W22), a bidirectional ETL platform — software that syncs data two ways between your data stack and the spreadsheet tools that your business teams rely on (e.g. Google Sheets, Airtable, and Notion databases), with the ability to add transformation logic (like SQL statements or MongoDB aggregation statements) in between. (https://www.usebracket.com/) In other words, if you want to join columns from two Postgres tables, sync the result to an Airtable table, and allow your Airtable users to edit certain fields from…
2022 · usebracket.com
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Almost a year ago, we got hundreds of feedback here from the HN community https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15732752 After months of hard work here we are with our new version. https://sievehq.com/ Sieve is a complete platform for running your freelance business without paying a percentage of your earnings. We’ve built every tool you need to run a freelancing business faster and more efficiently — Client on-boarding, Requirement collection, NDAs, Estimations, Agreements, Invoicing and Payments. This time, we did close to 300 signups with 12% adding their…
2018
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Hey HN, I built this tool that maps out every YC company worldwide. You can zoom into cities, explore clusters, and click to see details like batch, location, and website. Why I made it? I thought it’d be fun to visualise it, using the same infrastructure I already use in my other project: FoundersAround Some things I’m still improving: • Improve performance • More filters (industries, stages, etc). Would love your feedback. https://yc.foundersaround.com
2025
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Hello HN! I did a Show HN a while ago regarding a project I’ve been working on called SheetSQL, which enables users to query and join their Google Sheets data with simple SQL in seconds. > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39689685 I’m happy to announce a new feature: Workflows! With workflows you will be able to define data operations that transform or operate over your sheets as sources. Currently the supported operations are SheetSQL queries and sending an email with the output of an operation. Expect more to come soon! You can think of a workflow as a DAG (directed…
2024 · loom.com
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Today you can easily adopt AI coding tools because you have git for branching and rolling back if AI writes bad code. We haven't seen this same capability for data and decided to build it ourselves. Nile is a new kind of data lake, purpose built for using with AI. It can act as your data engineer or data analyst creating new tables and rolling back bad changes in seconds. We support real versions for data, schema, and ETL. We'd love your feedback on any part of what we are building - https://getnile.ai/ What do you think?
Jan 2026
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2016 · pasteql.com
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Yet another "talk to your data and build a dashboard" app, where data does not leave your browser. You ask a question, agents produce multiple SQL queries to in-browser sqlite, never seeing results, and write dashboard configuration code. The data you analyze will be indexed with a local semantic index (embeddings generation + sqlite vector search fully local). Next, sandboxed QuickJS runs this code to produce rich dashboards directly in your browser, no backend attached. This is a fully frontend app (except OpenRouter or other remote LLM). All data sent to LLM's is heavily sanitized and…
Jun 2026 · eatmydata.ai
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Hey Hacker News, Today we're launching Equals. Equals is a spreadsheet with native connections to your SQL databases and data warehouses. You can write SQL right in your spreadsheet. Equals was born out of a shared frustration of me and my co-founder. Despite the avalanche of new data tools over the last decade – nothing actually seemed better than a spreadsheet. Nothing was as flexible, malleable, and as easy to just dive in and play around with some data. In fact, you nearly always ended back in a spreadsheet regardless of what fancy set up you had: when something broke, when a chart in a…
2022
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Hello HN, Today we're sharing with you DataConstruct, a tool to help you generate mock data and the code to consume it. Features: - Exporting data to json, yaml, xml - Generating PostgreSQL, MySQL scripts - Code gen for various languages including but not limited to C++, Rust, Typescript, Java, C#, Go, Dart, Swift, Mojo You can try it out at the link below (no signup or credit card needed), the only limit being up to 1000 rows per generation within the playground. https://www.dataconstruct.io/organizations/playground/schema... If there's languages, databases, data…
2024 · dataconstruct.io
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Hey Hacker News! Last week we made the codebase for product 100% open source. This week we shipped a dashboard to manage connectors, as well as integrations with Google Drive, Zendesk, Notion, and Confluence. This means Sidekick is now the fastest way to sync data from these tools to a vector database. Why is this important? For developers building LLM apps, data integrations are often the least interesting and most time consuming part of the process. For those that don’t want to roll their own ETL, Sidekick is an opinionated tool that lets them get an API endpoint to run semantic searches…
2023 · app.getsidekick.ai
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Hey everyone, this is Jason and Nathan from https://subsets.io, a new open data warehouse. Our goal is to make finding and accessing public data easier for human analysis, in apps, or as a source of up-to-date data for retrieval-augmented-generation. Inspired by git scraping [1], the core idea is to build something where people don’t upload a snapshot of their dataset directly, like you might do on Kaggle or Huggingface. Instead, anyone can contribute code (connectors) which we then continuously run and make the fetched data available for everyone in our shared, public data…
2024 · subsets.io
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I vibe-coded a small project that turns the “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” thread into searchable job data using OpenAI, PostgreSQL, and Metabase. It pulls the thread using the Hacker News API, uses GPT to extract fields like company, role, location, salary, and contact, stores everything in PostgreSQL, and spins up Metabase so you can explore and search the results. Right now it runs locally, but would anyone be interested if I built this out a bit more and made a public dashboard?
2025 · github.com
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Generate code and content from various AI models using your keys: - The Coder: With just a few clicks, the intelli-tool generates HTML pages from your prompt in seconds, you can easily download the generated code. - The Graphs: transform any CSV file into an interactive dashboard with a convenient download button. - The Content: Whether you need marketing materials, e-commerce product descriptions, or engaging blog posts, the tool uses multiple models approach to generate high-quality content tailored to your specific needs. The experience starts by setting your keys in the settings page and…
2023 · show.intellinode.ai
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