[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":461},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-17147272":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":47,"post_text":48,"what":49,"said":103,"maker_in_thread":236,"shape":247,"grid":251,"attempts":423,"same_week":424,"maker_shows":43,"maker_hidden":454,"reader_version":455,"card":456},"17147272","Parabola.io","Automate your work with visual programming","title","Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming","https:\u002F\u002Fparabola.io\u002F","parabola.io","alexyaseen",1527189196,2018,291,66,93,2155,5,"legend","web_saas","visual data workflow automation","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"visual programming","data transformation","workflow automation","no-code","curious",0.18,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},13,26,0,7,46,{"idea":37,"pricing":40,"design":42,"execution":44,"privacy":46},{"positive":38,"critical":39},10,4,{"positive":33,"critical":41},3,{"positive":43,"critical":33},2,{"positive":45,"critical":33},1,{"positive":33,"critical":33},[33,41,45,33,33,33,41,45,33,41,41,45,41,33,45,41,18,41,18,45,33,18,18,18,41,45,41,18,33,33,18,18,41,41,41,41,41,41,18,18],"Hi HN!\n\nI’m Alex from Parabola (https:\u002F\u002Fparabola.io). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing.\n\nI used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies. The amount of time wasted on menial tasks was astounding. Things like cleaning data, generating custom reports, creating human workflows to solve shortcomings in third party tool",{"problem":50,"audience":56,"pricing":60,"motivation":72,"time_to_build":76,"stack":77,"openness":101,"stage":102,"team_size":101},{"value":51,"source":52,"evidence":53},"Non-technical people waste time on manual data cleaning, reporting and workflows","maker",[54],{"id":55},"post",{"value":57,"source":52,"evidence":58},"Non-technical people who work with data",[59],{"id":55},{"value":61,"source":62,"evidence":63},"Paid tiers; personal plan around 600\u002Fyr per a commenter, enterprise pricing via contact","commenter",[64,68],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"17160071","ApolloRising","I understand your business pricing but your personal pricing is quite high at 600\u002Fyr for a regular simple user. You may want to consider testing it because consumers are used to…",{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"17150784","boyd","Request for your kind consideration: I completely empathize with the need to tier your pricing based on features, and have certain items that one only gets for \"contact us\"-level…",{"value":73,"source":52,"evidence":74},"Strategy consultant saw large amounts of time wasted on menial data tasks",[75],{"id":55},null,[78,85,89,93,97],{"value":79,"source":62,"evidence":80},"JavaScript",[81],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"17148309","cbkirk","Thanks @adamfeldman. Parabola originally was pure JS: running the majority of each step function of the language in the user’s browser, making use of some python API endpoints…",{"value":86,"source":62,"evidence":87},"React",[88],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},{"value":90,"source":62,"evidence":91},"Immutable.js",[92],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},{"value":94,"source":62,"evidence":95},"Python",[96],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},{"value":98,"source":62,"evidence":99},"PubNub",[100],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"unknown","launched",{"praise":104,"objections":127,"requests":150,"questions":176,"alternatives":206},[105,116],{"value":106,"source":62,"evidence":107},"Clean UI and good marketing site",[108,112],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"17152288","chatmasta","I’ve seen a lot of attempts at this product, and none have really caught my eye. Looks like you really nailed it. Btw, great marketing website. The use cases section is critical…",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"17148536","arosier","Love the UI. One bit of feedback: on https:\u002F\u002Fparabola.io\u002F under \"Self Documenting and Repeatable\" I keep clicking the play buttons in the screenshot.",{"value":117,"source":62,"evidence":118},"Fills a gap for non-programmers doing data work",[119,123],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"17148172","adamfeldman","This feels like https:\u002F\u002Fballerina.io\u002F but for non-programmers, and with SaaS integrations built-in. I've spent so much time moving CSV between systems at an ecommerce company.…",{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"17148803","antoineleclair","Congratulations for the launch. Definitely a good idea. I'm a developer and personally won't need this, but I'll definitely suggest this when I think this could replace some…",[128,135,143],{"value":129,"source":62,"evidence":130},"Limitations when special requirements arise versus code",[131],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"17150973","some_account","It's a very nice idea but these tools always have limitations that become super annoying after a while. Programming is total freedom to do what you want and these tools try to…",{"value":136,"source":62,"evidence":137},"Lock-in and pricing too high for non-technical users",[138,142],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"17149874","pier25","Obviously this is meant for companies or individuals without developers or technical skills. If you have the technical knowledge a lock in service like this doesn't make much…",{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},{"value":144,"source":62,"evidence":145},"Seems like a prettified Node-RED",[146],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"17149860","crankylinuxuser","Greetings! I'll get straight to the point. I've used Node-Red (https:\u002F\u002Fnodered.org) in building my own IoT network along with automating quite a lot of things. 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What would you say differentiates this service from say, Zapier?",{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"17149797","everdev","How is this different from Zapier or IFTT?",{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"17154263","sebringj","What features are better than Zapier? I am curious as I use Zapier for automating stuff I don't want to program especially for marketing releated and this does look like the flow…",{"value":193,"source":62,"evidence":194},"Which cloud provider is used",[195],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"17148356","markatkinson","Can I ask what cloud products you use and the provider? Azure, AWS GC?",{"value":200,"source":62,"evidence":201},"Does it work offline",[202],{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},"17150803","IloveHN84","It would be cool to have the tool working also in offline scenarios, where no internet connection is possible, tough an automated workflow is still needed\u002Fpossible",[207,211,215,222,229],{"value":208,"source":62,"evidence":209},"Zapier",[210],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},{"value":212,"source":62,"evidence":213},"Node-RED",[214],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},{"value":216,"source":62,"evidence":217},"Microsoft Flow",[218],{"id":219,"by":220,"text":221},"17149256","badtechstuff","Microsoft has \"Flow\" which is basically Parabola, but considerably more confusing for end-users.",{"value":223,"source":62,"evidence":224},"SSIS",[225],{"id":226,"by":227,"text":228},"17155067","pathartl","So, SSIS? Where I work we're currently replacing everything that's SSIS with .NET services. 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