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Really cool project! Would love to see a standard established for representing visualizations in SQL! I built a whole dashboarding tool on top of the idea: https://taleshape.com/sh…

shaper leans into doing everything as code. instead of using a custom UI you can use your own editor and AI agent to generate dashboards for you. shaper is for people happy to use …

happy to hear that! pdfs are generated in a headless chrome in the same docker container as shaper itself using chromedp.

hi, dev building shaper here. shaper allows you to visualize data and build dashboards just by writing sql. the sql runs in duckdb so you can use all duckdb features. its for when …

hi, dev building Shaper here. I agree re sending reports vs dashboards. Many users use Shaper mostly as UI to filter data and then download a pdf, png or csv file to use elsewhere.…

hi, dev building Shaper here. Both, Shaper and Metabase, can be used to build dashboards for business intelligence functionality and embedded analytics. But the use cases are diffe…

I built Shaper following Malloy's idea of combining data queries and visualizations. But Shaper uses SQL instead of a custom language. It turns DuckDB into a dashboard builder for …

postgres (without extensions) is slower for analytical queries since it stores data as rows, not columns. Also, duckdb is an in-memory database so it's more comparable to sqlite th…

Create a secret in the init.dql file https://taleshape.com/shaper/docs/loading-data/#connecting-t...

You can use Shaper to query your data in MotherDuck and build dashboards on top of it.

Thank you! The SQL-first approach feels great to use so far and plan to keep betting on that with more features such as scheduled workflows, Git integration and AI code generation.…

Making effective use of data is non-trivial. Let me share what worked for us.

The discussion nicely points out all the things I also ran into over the last 5 years. This motivated me to summarize my experience: https://jorin.me/gettting-started-building-a-da…

https://jorin.me I build communication tools and write about data and technology. Latest post: Problem Solving Software creates value by solving problems. But effectively solving p…

Software creates value by solving problems. But effectively solving problems is hard. How can we get better at it?