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Hey there! Fellow founder in the same space here. I deeply understand what you are trying to solve cause I am doing the same. I am sure you are trying to diffe
by brainless 6y ago
Hey there!
Fellow founder in the same space here. I deeply understand what you are trying to solve cause I am doing the same. I am sure you are trying to differentiate from Jet Admin which is also in YC. ReTool is more mature (also YC). Then there is Forest Admin and Macro is coming out soon.
On top of this, in my early customer validation talks, people ask me if my product is like Metabase or Chartio etc. So yeah it is a crowded space, but I feel this space is huge. Like every business wishes not to invest money in internal tools but they have to. I am still trying to figure out my MVP. I am currently working on complex (JOIN and aggregates) queries without any SQL knowledge. That is what I am going to launch as MVP soon. 2 levels of tables and people really struggle to get out what they want.
An example query I am throwing around is "Show me Orders from Red Shoes". This already means Order, Product and Product Category table. This is a real pain for non-technical people and I believe solving this is becoming critical to encourage and enable every business to be able to ask questions about their Business without needing Engineering.
I am going to go the UI/UX approach to solve this in my MVP and then go for an NLP based approach if things go well. Like if you could type that in a search box and get data, without knowing anything about databases or without needing any Engineering help, that would be real solution to Businesses.
Cheers, and best of luck!
Sumit from dwata.com
- brainless 6y agoOh and also adding Actiondesk to the list of YC funded products, I see Jonathan is here in the comments. Hey!
- prostodata 6y ago> I am currently working on complex (JOIN and aggregates) queries without any SQL knowledge One way to process data without joins and groupy in multiple tables is to use Prosto toolkit: https://github.com/prostodata/prosto https://github.com/prostodata/prosto It is an alternative to SQL, MapReduce and other classical approaches by radically changing how data is processed
- brainless 6y agoThanks, I will take a look, although I prefer to stay with relational algebra, Python and R but make them all available through an easier UX. That might be a core selling point for me.