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24 alternatives to Census – Export for data warehouses

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…

Census connects data warehouses directly to business applications like Salesforce, Customer.io, and Google Sheets, automatically syncing customer data without manual CSV exports or custom coding. Built for business… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Census – Export for data warehouses launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Census▲198

    Your customer data, in all your tools ⚡

    2020 · fivetran.com · its alternatives →

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    Effortlessly centralize all the data you need so your team can deliver better insights, faster. Start for free.

    2020 · getcensus.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3SD

    Hey HN! Charles here from Prequel (https://prequel.co). We just launched the ability to sync data from your own app/db/data warehouse to any of your customer’s Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel – and I wanted to share a bit more about how we built the Google Sheets integration. If you’re curious, see here for a quick GIF demo of our Google Sheets destination: https://storage.googleapis.com/hn_asset/Prequel_GoogleSheets.... Quick background on us: we make it easy to integrate with and sync data to data warehouses. Problem is, there are plenty of folks who…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Business intelligence, but dead easy

    2023 · equals.com · its alternatives →

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    Sheetsu▲537

    Turn Google Spreadsheet into API

    2015 · sheetdb.io · its alternatives →

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    Experiment lead generation initiatives in Google Sheets

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Move marketing data to BigQuery warehouse, no code required

    2023 · whatagraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Livedocs▲474

    Bring live data from anywhere into your docs, without code

    Jan 2026 · livedocs.com · its alternatives →

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    Use your Google Sheets as a JSON API. Connect Google Spreadsheets with your CRM or any other tool using JSON API and RESTful requests.

    2015 · sheetsu.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello everyone! At a company I worked for, we needed to develop an MVP (basically a web page) and apply certain business logic to a Google Drive spreadsheet that was frequently updated by the Sales team. In this case, we had two options: Develop a backend to replace the current spreadsheet and have the sales team use it as a new "backoffice" - This would take a very long time, and if the hypothesis we were testing was wrong, it would be time wasted. Create the web page and use Google's SDK to extract data from the spreadsheet. We chose to go with the second option because it was quicker.…

    2024 · zerosheets.com · its alternatives →

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    LiveFlow▲340

    One hub to automate your finances

    2021 · liveflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn your spreadsheets into powerful apps, without code

    2023 · softr.io · its alternatives →

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    Connect direct to Salesforce & HubSpot with native formulas

    2025 · coefficient.io · its alternatives →

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    Fastest way: csv/xls to dashboard report, no ChatGPT upload

    2023 · datasquirrel.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Charles here from Prequel (https://prequel.co). We just launched the ability for companies to import data from their customer’s data warehouse or database, and we wanted to share a little bit more about it with the community. If you just want to see how it works, here’s a demo of the product that Conor recorded: https://www.loom.com/share/4724fb62583e41a9ba1a636fc8ea92f1. Quick background on us: we help companies integrate with their customer’s data warehouse or database. We’ve been busy helping companies export data to their customers – we’re currently…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Do things you shouldn’t with spreadsheets

    2024 · whalesync.com · its alternatives →

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    HelloGuru▲234

    Airtable meets Tableau

    2022 · helloguru.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We are Jonathan & Guy, and we are happy to share a project we’ve been working on. ChartDB is a tool to help developers and data analysts quickly visualize database schemas by generating ER diagrams with just one query. A unique feature of our product is AI-Powered export for easy migration. You can give it a try at https://chartdb.io and find the source code on GitHub. Next steps ---> More AI. We’d love feedback :)

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sheet0▲151

    YOLO mode comes to spreadsheets

    Nov 2025 · sheet0.com · its alternatives →

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    Get your marketing data in Google Sheets

    2023 · twominutereports.com · its alternatives →

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    Sheetlabs lets you turn Excel and Google Sheets into powerful APIs. No development required!

    2014 · sheetlabs.com · its alternatives →

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    Create workflows from your spreadsheet

    2019 · sheetgo.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23SA

    Hi HN! I’m Eoin, founder of Sourcetable (https://sourcetable.com). Sourcetable is an AI-native spreadsheet that syncs with all your data. Users pair with an AI copilot that helps them do their spreadsheet work, as well as more database-centric analysis and SQL. Soucetable syncs with databases including Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB, and over 100+ business applications including Stripe, Zendesk, Hubspot, Quickbooks and Google Analytics. That data is available in a spreadsheet, and any models you build automatically update in near-real-time as new data flows in. The core primitives…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    The smart way to share data from Excel or GSheets - now free

    2020 · geckoboard.com · its alternatives →

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