Query your database using plain English, fully on-premises
Hi folks, My friend Sami and I recently built Vizly, a Mac application that allows anyone to query their databases using plain English. Vizly is built on Llama 2, llama.cpp, and runs fully on-prem (edit: meaning everything is local and your data never leaves your own computer). We are running two Llama models, one for natural language to SQL translation, and another that uses the results from the SQL to render visualizations. That means there are no external APIs and all the AI models are running locally on your MacBook. We tried to make Vizly very easy to share as well. Every Vizly instance…
Query your database using plain English, fully on-premises launched on August 29, 2023 with 104 votes, #735 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Vizly is a Mac application that lets users query their databases using plain English instead of SQL. It runs entirely locally on the user's computer using Llama 2 models for translating natural language to SQL and generating visualizations from results. No data leaves the device and no external APIs are required. Users can create share links to let others on the same network run queries remotely from their Mac.
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From the sources
Analyze and visualize your data in seconds. Vizly is an AI data analyst that lets you chat with your data, visualize insights, and perform analysis.
Ask any question about your data in plain language, or click the suggestions Vizly automatically produces. Vizly generates Python or R code to analyze your data and provide you with valuable insights. You can choose the language that best suits your needs. Vizly empowers you to derive meaningful insights quickly, whether you're engaged in academic research, teaching, data analysis, or driving business decisions. Discover the various ways Vizly can transform your data into valuable knowledge. All data uploaded to Vizly is encrypted in transit and at rest. Any data uploaded to Vizly is stored in a completely isolated environment only accessible by you and is deleted permanently after one hour…from vizly.fyi
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi folks, My friend Sami and I recently built Vizly, a Mac application that allows anyone to query their databases using plain English. Vizly is built on Llama 2, llama.cpp, and runs fully on-prem (edit: meaning everything is local and your data never leaves your own computer). We are running two Llama models, one…
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