Quary
Data
business intelligence
SHOW HN2024
293points
75comments
#214of 3,515 in 2024
Top 7%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
9 positive, 31 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good landing page and clear launch
From 1 comment
Side comment: what an interesting landing page it has. That Slack CAT button right within the fold is a good idea. A walkthrough and a way to schedule a meeting with the…
rodolphoarruda on HN
Interesting approach to preventing dashboard sprawl
From 1 comment
> Now a few bits about what we are: These are great. I think a lot about BI tools, seldom find any that I would use!
sails on HN
Objections
Setup is complicated and onboarding docs are unclear
From 2 comments
We're all on on https://www.sigmacomputing.com/ bc we don't like hosting/managing/provisioning essential tools like this + this seems more complicated to configured. I would…
swaraj on HNTried going through the onboarding sample project from within VS-Code locally… I know, you suggest trying it in the Github Browser, but, hey, I'm perverse and it's available as…
suranyami on HN
Looks like Looker and LookML
From 1 comment
So it’s Looker and LookML.
iamacyborg on HN
Self-serve is needed for business-wide adoption
From 1 comment
If you're targeting use within software and engineering teams, that thesis may be right. If you're targeting adoption across whole businesses, I think the thesis is pretty wrong…
code_biologist on HN
Requests
Comparison pages against alternatives
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch! I've built analytics products, and the good thing about dashboards is that there's budget for them. People like eye-candy, and are willing to pay for it.…
scapecast on HNAll these comments ask for comparisons. It might be worth creating some alternative pages like podia do [1]. It could be helpful for your growth. Seems like a cool project! [1]…
igeligel_dev on HN
Support for AWS Athena as a backend
From 1 comment
Curious what it might take to add AWS Athena as another back end?
heuermh on HN
Sharing dashboards with end users
From 1 comment
Looks pretty exciting, congrats. For looking at the intro video and skimming through the documentation, I think I mostly understood what it does and how it works. What I don't…
dantodor on HN
Questions
How does it differ from Lightdash, Rill, and dbt
From 3 comments
How is this different from Lightdash? https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash
tnolet on HNHow does it quary compare to rill?
xn on HNFrom an external look, that sounds a lot like what dbt is meant to be. Why would one choose quary over dbt?
rubenfiszel on HN
Can it be self-hosted and is login required
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch! I've been evaluating evidence and observable framework for a while, and this seems like a nice addition as alternative But I just realized you require…
banditelol on HNWondering if the signing in is mandatory to use it?
cellover on HN
Can it be white-labelled to embed in products
From 1 comment
Hate to derail the conversation, but is Quary something I could easily whitelabel to embed BI into my product for my customers? (Passively) looking for solutions in that that…
_hl_ on HN
Alternatives named
Lightdash
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch! I think here's a few players in this space (dev-friendly BI tool) already: - Holistics.io - Lightdash - Hashboard These tools all allow analysts to use…
huy on HNHow is this different from Lightdash? https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash
tnolet on HN
Evidence
From 1 comment
I'll ask another of the "how is this different" questions - how is this different from https://evidence.dev/ ? Quary seems a little like dbt + Evidence from what I can see.
tayloramurphy on HN
Rill
From 1 comment
How does it quary compare to rill?
xn on HN
Metabase
From 1 comment
We're all on on https://www.sigmacomputing.com/ bc we don't like hosting/managing/provisioning essential tools like this + this seems more complicated to configured. I would…
swaraj on HN
Superset
From 1 comment
We are looking at moving our Power BI stuff to Apache Superset [1]. How does this compare to Superset? [1] https://superset.apache.org/
halfcat on HN
dbt
From 1 comment
From an external look, that sounds a lot like what dbt is meant to be. Why would one choose quary over dbt?
rubenfiszel on HN
Redash
From 1 comment
Seems a lit samiliar to redash, writing sql to build dashboards. or using pygwalker + streamlit for more customization. https://docs.kanaries.net/pygwalker
loa_observer on HN