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cliftonc

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    Show HN: Drizby – WIP Metabase Alternative

    Hello everyone! I am working on an open source reporting tool, that was mostly focused on the 'Embed analytics in your app' use case, which I found was either not great or not flex…

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    Show HN: First party analytics pipeline on Cloudflare with DuckDB

    I spent some time this week wiring together all the pieces to build a "complete" end to end product analytics platform using the new (in beta - use at your own risk) Cloudflare Dat…

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    Comment #46643271

    I really disagree, skills are really quite useful and there is a lot of usage + community - e.g. take a look at https://github.com/obra/superpowers which I know is used by a lot of…

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    Comment #46441691

    At this point it would rely on the person embedding it in their app to get that data, put it somewhere, and then add a Cube definition on top of it - so this is purely solving the …

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    Comment #46441683

    I used Cube as inspiration, and actually the rest API for drizzle-cube is compatible with the cube-js schema definition. The main difference is that I chose to model the cubes in t…

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    Show HN: Embeddable analytics for your platform – MIT Licensed

    I've been working on this as a side project for some time, but now I think it has reached a point to be genuinely useable and useful - would really appreciate any feedback or comme…

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    Show HN: Drizzle Cube – embeddable MIT licensed analytics

    This is a project that I have been working on, after extracting it from a side project that is going nowhere fast, but has been quite a learning experience. It's a complete analyti…

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    Show HN: Embeddable customer facing analytics – MIT licensed

    I have extracted this module from a SaaS application I have been working on for some years, it is based on Drizzle, and the UI components just React + Tailwind. The idea is that it…

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    Comment #32178450

    I definitely meant Excel, we use office365 - easily as shareable as Google sheets these days. Agree anaplan and friends also have downsides, but for me the complexity you end up in…

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    Comment #32178289

    Excel, but it's painful - as any change's through the year make it very hard to compare and contrast actual to budget (e.g. a simple rate change from a supplier vs adding someone t…

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    Comment #31269850

    I am a very happy Bunq customer for 4+ years, and as a user of other Dutch banks (for a mortgage - ABN amro, in the past UK banks like FD), their overall service levels great - if …

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    Comment #24211710

    This looks like a copy of an idea we built a few years ago ( https://github.com/tes/compoxure ) - still in heavy use at my previous company, along with lots of other folks like Zal…

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    Comment #14966205

    Why not use a headset? They work really well at blocking out background noise (we use the plantronics ones). Worth every cent.

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    Comment #12178551

    It looks like they've lost a chunk of data - the last items in my news feed are from the 14th of July.

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    Comment #9051997

    Fair comment, they just seemed like good interactions to begin with as they are well understood. Given we can take this in any direction, what other dynamics do you think might be …

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    Comment #9047806

    I started building this because I have a requirement at my current company, and wanted to understand the problem space before I figured out if there was anything out there I could …

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    Comment #7392504

    I've been playing with Prismic.io during this beta period and think it looks like an awesome product with great potential, but I just can't bring myself to actually use the writing…

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    Comment #6813761

    A lot of the simplification was definitely down to flattening the structure that was represented in 20-30 tables down into a smaller set of documents in ES. But the functional appr…

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    Comment #6813401

    Hi, I'm the CTO at the MailOnline so can comment. The biggest reduction in loc was due to the move from a relational DB to elastic search containing flatter representations of our …