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A simple business intelligence application

Shown by barlog on Feb 8, 2017. Click the card to turn it over.

100points

26comments

#460of 2,242 in 2017

Top 21%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.

Idea: 1 for, 3 against

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Simple and nice once a chart is working
From 1 comment
- I have been looking for this for the past few days, something to graph directly from my mysql. Unfortunately the experience in this app is not too good - The app is just white…
  wingerlang on HN
Fills a gap left by Wagon
From 1 comment
- Nice! I've been looking for a replacement for wagon since they got acquired. Looking forward to using this.
  chrift on HN

Native app is slow to start and looks blank
From 1 comment
- I have been looking for this for the past few days, something to graph directly from my mysql. Unfortunately the experience in this app is not too good - The app is just white…
  wingerlang on HN
Slow on large query results and reloads on Cmd+R
From 1 comment
- I have been looking for this for the past few days, something to graph directly from my mysql. Unfortunately the experience in this app is not too good - The app is just white…
  wingerlang on HN
Not really BI, just charting SQL results
From 2 comments
- Disappointing click bait. This is not BI, this is just charting SQL results.
  jorgeleo on HN
- I'd agree it's not a full BI package, but software like "Crystal Reports" is typically part of a BI suite. And while it has more features than this tool, it is also essentially…
  tyingq on HN
Lacks MsSQL and Windows support
From 1 comment
- so it doesn't support MsSQL nor Windows ? I think you should work on these two if you want better reach.
  gressquel on HN

MongoDB support
From 1 comment
- Would really love MongoDB support!
  chrischen on HN
Table structure view and autocomplete
From 1 comment
- I have been looking for this for the past few days, something to graph directly from my mysql. Unfortunately the experience in this app is not too good - The app is just white…
  wingerlang on HN
Better connection testing and chart feedback
From 1 comment
- I have been looking for this for the past few days, something to graph directly from my mysql. Unfortunately the experience in this app is not too good - The app is just white…
  wingerlang on HN

How does it compare to ELK stack
From 1 comment
- How is this compared to an ELK stack? With elasticsearch & (kibana | grafana) you get tonz of functionality with 0 effort...all you have to do is push data to el.
  agounaris on HN

Metabase
From 2 comments
- Try Metabase[0]! It's one of the most professionally maintained OSS projects I've ever seen. For instance, I don't recall seeing design mockups for new features before…
  underyx on HN
- For anyone interested in something a little more fleshed out than this, Metabase is open source, works with most ANSI SQL DBs, and provides SQL and non SQL interfaces for data…
  cshenton on HN
Redash
From 2 comments
- This reminds me of a similar project, Redash (https://github.com/getredash/redash), at least in functionality. This seems like it would be useful for data exploration, and I…
  opaque_salmon on HN
- ^second that. Redash [0] is also a pretty nifty tool - and could be used together. [0]: https://redash.io/
  listentojohan on HN
Blazer
From 1 comment
- Maybe bdash is more advanced with drawing graphs. In our small start-up, we love using blazer: https://github.com/ankane/blazer. Everyone can write queries, we can share it with…
  edvinasbartkus on HN
Superset
From 1 comment
- Superset from airbnb might be worth a look: https://github.com/airbnb/superset
  datacleaner on HN
Kibana or Grafana
From 1 comment
- How is this compared to an ELK stack? With elasticsearch & (kibana | grafana) you get tonz of functionality with 0 effort...all you have to do is push data to el.
  agounaris on HN