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Show HN: I spent 8 months building a "Data Hub" that nobody used, so I pivoted
I’ll be honest. I built a platform to host datasets thinking it would be the next big thing. I spent 8 months on it. Result: 0 users. It was a ghost town.
Instead of deleting the repo and crying in a corner, I realized the only part of the app that was actually cool was the engine: It could turn any CSV upload into a queryable API in milliseconds.
So I stripped away the social features, killed the "hub" idea, and turned it into a simple utility tool for frontend devs who hate writing backend boilerplate.
It’s called Shodata. You drag a CSV, you get a REST API. That's it.
It’s running on FastAPI + DuckDB. Roast my pivot.