Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Facster.com technology demonstration
I am presenting for your consideration not so much the Facster.com website (a prototype with some rough edges) but the underlying technology. I’ve long been dissatisfied with the availability and presentation of raw data on the internet. Here is what Facster does: 1) All data from any source on one unified graph 2) Time series data presented in original n-dimensions 3) Full key-word search 4) Browsing by the original publisher’s organization 5) Data selected from any source joinable to any other selections 6) Full data provenance, sources, footnotes, etc. Superficially Facster supports…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Facster.com technology demonstration launched in 2010; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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ChartGen AI▲489Hi HN, I’m the maker of ChartGen AI. Last year, we launched a text-based AI agent called Ada.im. After analyzing thousands of user interactions, we stumbled upon a pattern we hadn't expected: users were constantly trying to paste data rows and ask for visual representations, but the text-based model couldn't handle it well. We realized that for marketers, seeing the trend is more valuable than reading about it. We pivoted that insight into a standalone tool: Drag & Drop: Upload raw CSVs (FB Ads, GA4, TikTok, etc.). Processing: We map the disparate column names into a unified schema. Viz: It…
Jan 2026 · chartgen.ai · its alternatives →
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Many JS libraries exist to build graphs on the web (Vega, chartJS, Plotly...). They allow to make charts quickly. But you lose flexibility: you're limited by the options they offer. I just created a gallery with hundreds of graphs made with d3.js and React. - Examples are split by graph types - They all come with explanation and code sandboxes - Gradual complexity to ease the learning curve It took me ages to create this project! Feedback welcome!
2023 · react-graph-gallery.com · its alternatives →
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Free chart maker & visual exploration for spreadsheet data
2020 · its alternatives →
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Over the last year, I've worked on aggregating Groundhog data, including predictions, location, and a cute photo. Welcome to GROUNDHOG-DAY.com: The clean and breathable, machine-readable, all-regional data source for Groundhog Day forecasts. Find your fave groundhog, peruse past predictions, or trek the continent-wide Groundhog Map. Includes enterprise-grade API for corporate use cases.
2023 · groundhog-day.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there! This is Dan and Ustin (@uzarubin), and we want to share something cool we've been working on for the past year - an open-source `tail -f` for your data, with a UI. We call it "Streamdal" which is a word salad for streaming systems (because we love them) and DAL or data access layer (because we’re nerds). Here's the repo: https://github.com/streamdal/streamdal Here's the site: https://streamdal.com And here's a live demo: https://demo.streamdal.com (github repo has an explanation of the demo) — — — THE PROBLEM We built this because the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Data presentation and collaboration
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Data Wrapper▲75Open source simple, correct, embeddable charts in minutes
2014 · datawrapper.de · its alternatives →
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Edgemetry▲99I've been building a lot of landing pages and small sites lately, and i wanted analytics on them. Google analytics was the obvious first option, but i didn't want it for privacy reasons. Also, some privacy blockers block them. Plausible was the next best thing, but having a VPS for sites which that doesn't get too much traffic, felt too much. So i built Edgemetry. Its a worker, a bit of frontend, and a D1 database. Everything runs in Cloudflare's free tier. If you've got a site that doesn't get ton of traffic but you still wnat to see your visitors and their actions, give it a go.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TLDR: I made a public only web analytics without signup. Stores views and visitors for 10 days before deleting data. Exactly 25 days ago today I posted here, proud of my new web analytics. The response was mixed and my post even got flagged (understandable). It was my first real launch and I actually made a sale just a day later of 49$(!). Back then my project was pay once, keep forever. Since then I have sadly went over to the dark side (subscription based). Anyways, I never went back to look at the post after the first two hours, turns out I got a lot of answers. Most answers was something…
2024 · indielytics.link · its alternatives →
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Rival Charts▲37Create stunning chart races 🚀 📊 that go viral!
May 2026 · moradstern.com · its alternatives →
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Most analytics tools give you 10–15 chart types and call it a day. But what happens when none of them actually represent your data well? We ran into this when building a CRM dashboard. We wanted to show how sales reps connect to open deals: not just totals, but actual relationships. A bar chart was too flat, a table too dense. We needed a network graph. The problem? Most chart libraries and BI tools don’t support that out of the box. You either say “no” to the feature request, or you hack together a standalone visualization that breaks the product’s flow (no filters, no interactivity, no…
Oct 2025 · its alternatives →
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A few months ago, I was asked to build a reporting Slack bot for our internal stakeholders. This bot, among other things, had to send them some charts. During my make-or-buy process, I evaluated some services, but I wasn't totally satisfied with any of them, mainly for two reasons: firstly, because in most of those services, the data is sent as query parameters, and since the data in my case are sensitive, I didn't want that. The second reason was that the rendered chart images were not as cool as I wanted. I'm the kind of person who likes beautiful things . So, I did some testing, and I…
2024 · chartbear.app · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've been working on http://underthesite.com for the last month and now think it is ready for some full strength HN feedback. What do you guys think? It crawls up to 10 pages of a given site while you wait, looking for community-provided CSS / XPath selectors and regular expressions. Additionally, I'd like to appeal to you to submit matchers for technologies that you care about. Technologies are easy to add, so add your favorite jQuery plugins, analytics tools, client-side node.js wrappers, what have you. I'm going to be running a large crawl in the next few days and want to make…
2011 · underthesite.com · its alternatives →
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We're sick of teaching (and using) SPSS, Stata, and R. Why isn't there a simple site that tells you which test to run, how to format your data, and how to interpret the results? We built LittleStat because we found the current tools unbearably painful. Looking forward to your feedback :) http://littlestat.com p.s. We're also looking for a couple more R/statistics experts to help us add tests and provide more detailed feedback.
2012 · littlestat.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! My name is Rémy and I recently published an astronomy dashboard where everything is open source: the code of the website, the framework it is based on and the library that computes astronomical data. For the last few years, I have been developing the Ruby library Astronoby (https://github.com/rhannequin/astronoby) with as much dedication and perseverance I could while I don't have any scientific academic background. My end goal was to use this library and build a website that not only provides as much data as possible, but let anyone access and understand how it…
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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After releasing our open-source tool to build animated charts in Jupyter and other computational notebooks (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30895975), we got two requests from data scientists: 1. They lacked the opportunity to use these charts to present their findings and control the animation better than just (re)running notebook cells. 2. They had challenges using our generic chart-building engine - they are more acquainted with picking a chart type and using the parameters specific to that type. So we decided to build a new extension that enables our users to add the…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, as a former data analyst, I’ve been tooling around trying to get agents to do my old job. The result is this system that gets you maybe 80% of the way there. I think this is a good data point for what the current frontier models are capable of and where they are still lacking (in this case — hypothesis generation and general data intuition). Some initial learnings: - Generating web app-based reports goes much better if there are explicit templates/pre-defined components for the model to use. - Claude can “heal” broken charts if you give it access to chart images and run a…
Mar 2026 · rubenflamshepherd.com · its alternatives →
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I posted this a few weeks ago and the server died under the traffic. Fixed that by adding an in-mem caching layer with Redis/valkey and added CloudFront caching for static content. Also upgraded the server. Also fixed the Firefox bugs, trying again. It's a research tool for US stocks. Financials for ~10k companies pulled from SEC filings. You can chart any metric across companies, filter news by ticker, ask questions in plain English and get a chart back. There's also SQL console against the whole database, which is the part I like to use together with the AI chat (generates an SQL…
Jun 2026 · terminal.tesseractanalytics.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi, Hacker News! We're excited to announce the release of GraphAr, an open-source file format for archiving and exchanging graph data. The landscape of graph processing systems is fragmented, with various types of systems, including graph databases, graph computation systems, and GNN systems. However, currently, there is no common file format for efficiently storing and exchanging graph data while maintaining its schema and graph semantics. GraphAr is designed to address this issue by providing a simple, lightweight format for storing and exchanging graph data. GraphAr is a flexible and…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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