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Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

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Re: Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

scapecast wrote: post #10

Co-founder of intermix.io here (which we sold in March). We came more from the performance monitoring angle (specifically for Redshift), but then shifted to a product that works horizontally across all warehouses, to track usage, workflows and user engagement. "Shift to Data Products" was the narrative we started using in Q4 2019. If you read the copy on the current intermix.io website, I think you'll find yourself n…

FYI: Snowflake seems to be a commercial marketplace that lets users download data sets (weather, marketing etc) and presumably people to upload their data sets

https://www.snowflake.com/data-marketplace/

I assume there is a open version that's really good but less cool

Re: Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

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Post by vikramkr »

12ian34 wrote: post #8
_Microft wrote: post #2

Have you considered picking a different name? Searching for "Hubble" for whatever reason is going to return millions of irrelevant results for your customers.

I'm sure Jobs and Woz heard similar...

Yes of course, because of how important search engine optimization was in 1976. Nothing has changed in the business environment between now and then.

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Post by switz »

Kye wrote: post #18
switz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a customer is looking for you specifically, they will find you (e.g. "hubble data" as stated above). If they are looking for a "data quality monitor" then the SEO will need to reflect that. The name is largely irrelevant at that point, it's merely a moniker. In the grand scheme of problems a new company has, this is so trivially minor that I can't fathom this having any tangible effect on the success of a company.…

Hubble data brings up, as I would expect, data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Not one of the first page of results points to anything else but HSTS information.

The product literally just launched -- give it a few weeks, it'll show up.

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Post by hribo »

I signed up and I think the concept is promising. It was very easy to add a couple of tests. SQL interface is handy and convenient, but sometimes still limited. It would be good to add a support for some custom scripts (i.e. Python, R). Another important thing for my team would also be seamless integration with other tools (i.e. email, SMS, Slack) to notify the team about the failed test(s).

Re: Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

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Post by hamzahc »

scapecast wrote: post #10

Co-founder of intermix.io here (which we sold in March). We came more from the performance monitoring angle (specifically for Redshift), but then shifted to a product that works horizontally across all warehouses, to track usage, workflows and user engagement. "Shift to Data Products" was the narrative we started using in Q4 2019. If you read the copy on the current intermix.io website, I think you'll find yourself n…

> My experience is that monitoring data quality is still an under-appreciated discipline.

We agree with this a lot, we found there are often a lot of unknown unknowns that drive data issues, and a lot of teams aren’t sure of where to start. It’s why we’re spending so much time on trying to make relevant tests in Hubble that are easy to set up and use (and then let users create custom tests once they get the hang of it).

Great point on the distribution, we do think being close to the data warehouses is really important for us, most teams already have one set up, but don’t know if what’s inside it is correct or useful. We’re looking to get set up on their marketplaces soon!

It sounds super relevant, we’d love to hear more - you can get me at hamzah[at]gethubble.io

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Post by dang »

vikramkr wrote: post #22
12ian34 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure Jobs and Woz heard similar...

Yes of course, because of how important search engine optimization was in 1976. Nothing has changed in the business environment between now and then.

Please don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Post by xyzzy_plugh »

_Microft wrote: post #2

Have you considered picking a different name? Searching for "Hubble" for whatever reason is going to return millions of irrelevant results for your customers.

My first thought was https://github.com/cilium/hubble

Re: Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

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Post by oliver101 »

_Microft wrote: post #2

Have you considered picking a different name? Searching for "Hubble" for whatever reason is going to return millions of irrelevant results for your customers.

Yeah we called this project hubble long before we were worried about SEO.

Actually, the name does relate back to Edwin Hubble. We previously worked together on an internal data tool called Telescope (it was used for annotating medical images for computer vision). The telescope project slowly evolved into the product we have today. So we changed the name to our favourite telescope. I have a fondness for the Hubble telescope: there was a huge poster of it on the way into the computational physics dept. and takes me back to the grad school days!

Re: Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

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Post by Kye »

switz wrote: post #23
Kye wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hubble data brings up, as I would expect, data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Not one of the first page of results points to anything else but HSTS information.

The product literally just launched -- give it a few weeks, it'll show up.

I don't know who's advising you on SEO, but you will not ever outrank STSCI, NASA, ESA, AWS Open Data's HSTS archive, The Planetary Society, the National Academy of Sciences, or the ESO on "hubble data" as long as Hubble is still what people think of when they hear Hubble. The telescope and related sites/agencies/organizations have a 22 year head start building a relevant link profile in Google. And if you did, Google would get suspicious.

Hubble is fine as a name if you pick the right keywords to target in your marketing, but "Hubble data" is never going to show a link to something that isn't at least tangentially related to the telescope.

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