Dropbase 2.0
Data
data import and processing
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
12 positive, 31 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 21 critical, out of 65 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 6 for, 8 againstDesign: 2 for, 7 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, well-designed landing page
From 2 comments
On a somewhat unrelated note, the design of this landing page is fantastic. It is exactly how I like to have new tools presented to me. All the fundamental competencies of the…
TheUndead96 on HNLooks useful, and the landing page is excellent. Minor grammar fix: "See how your data looks like as you process it." -> "See what your data looks like as you process it." (could…
chrisweekly on HN
Useful for ETL and quick CSV querying
From 2 comments
This is just just excellent. I do a lot of ETL work and need to build custom workflows for it, this is exactly what I have been looking for. Good job, team!
2pointsomone on HNThis is very cool. I think there's a lot of room to grow this space: local "folders" that do some "magic" in the cloud. Obviously, sync (Dropbox) is just the beginning, and…
dvt on HN
Objections
Cloud-only; on-prem or self-hosted requested
From 2 comments
Can this be installed on-premise?
hans_castorp on HNThis looks useful, I'd prefer self-hosted for some use cases though.
alanbernstein on HN
Terms of service raise data ownership and privacy concerns
From 2 comments
Question about the TOS: "However, by posting Content using Service you grant us the right and license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and…
mtVessel on HNWe have also stumbled upon this point in the T&C. A real show-stopper for us as we are planning to work with sensitive client data.
Oranj on HN
Dark theme hard to read
From 2 comments
Is there a light mode option for the site? Or is iOS just not selecting it for some reason? My astigmatism makes reading dark UIs migraine inducing, so as cool as this sounds I…
Scheris on HNYeah, although in my case it would have been nice to have a 'light' version, as I have some trouble reading the dark grey text on a black background in broad daylight.
contravariant on HN
Requests
Self-hosted or on-premise version
From 2 comments
Can this be installed on-premise?
hans_castorp on HNThis looks useful, I'd prefer self-hosted for some use cases though.
alanbernstein on HN
Multi-sheet Excel import
From 1 comment
Xlsx sheets with more than one sheets, only first sheet gets imported?
xdevice on HN
Light mode
From 1 comment
Is there a light mode option for the site? Or is iOS just not selecting it for some reason? My astigmatism makes reading dark UIs migraine inducing, so as cool as this sounds I…
Scheris on HN
Support for SQLite and Parquet
From 2 comments
Any plans for sqlite?
ta17711771 on HNWould be amazing if you supported parquet :)
uke1 on HN
Questions
How are incremental loads handled?
From 1 comment
Looks very cool so far, congratulations! I have two questions: - How do you handle incremental loads from files (or even google sheets)? Am I able to only load the diff, load…
2mol on HN
Can it do joins and group by?
From 1 comment
Can it do joins/group by/etc.?
MuffinFlavored on HN
Alternatives named
Datasette
From 1 comment
My favorite incarnation of this idea is probably Datasette. https://github.com/simonw/datasette
rpdillon on HN
csvkit
From 1 comment
csvkit, you can sql query and much more from the command line.
chishaku on HN
SQLite CSV import
From 1 comment
"mounting" CSVs is something sqlite can do, sqlite.org/csv.html
NoSorryCannot on HN
Meltano
From 1 comment
Since you brought up ETL, you may also be interested in Meltano (https://meltano.com), an open source ETL tool we've been working on at GitLab for a few years now! I shared some…
DouweM on HN
VisiData
From 1 comment
This reminds me of https://www.visidata.org/ which is a terminal based application with similar purpose - loading tabular data from various sources, and exploring and processing…
nurbl on HN