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Re: Launch HN: Secoda (YC S21) – Searchable Company Data

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Post by Etai »

ramish94 wrote: post #19

As you may already know, integrations are the heart and soul for products like this. I'm assuming you're already being bombarded by potential/current users asking "when will you have integration X?". What is your strategy to scale out & maintain integrations? Speaking from experience, it's not something that is easy to scale out unless you have a dedicated team whose job is to build them out, or you have some third-p…

You're spot on. One thing we're doing to deal with the long tail of integrations is opening up an API to customers.

We're also considering open sourcing that part of the product, but haven't made a firm decision on that yet. Would love to chat if you're open to it. We're definitely looking for people in product. Feel free to send me an email to etai@secoda.co

Re: Launch HN: Secoda (YC S21) – Searchable Company Data

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Post by dang »

coderintherye wrote: post #24

We've been using Secoda since the Meet the Batch thread. It's come a long way already since then. Great product! Hard part is still getting the team to use it, but we've been making inroads.

That thread was at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156461, for those curious.

Re: Launch HN: Secoda (YC S21) – Searchable Company Data

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Post by mythbuster »

andrewmcewen wrote: post #15
ianbutler wrote: post #6

Congrats on launching! So how do you compare to a Data Catalog like datahub? https://datahubproject.io/ From the video you looked very similar to them as a metadata consumer and they provide extensive API integrations so you can add basically any set of metadata you want including slack, jira etc. They're also offering a hosted version. Their metadata is indexed into a tuneable ES cluster so you can fiddle with relev…

Thank you! Secoda is different from DataHub in a few ways: 1. If you're using the DataHub open source solution it requires a data engineer to get the platform up and running and maintained, which can be a fairly expensive cost depending on the salary of the data engineer. Secoda has 15+ no code integrations that can be setup in 5 minutes and is a fully managed solution. We are releasing a metadata API that will be av…

Hey Etai and team, Congrats on the launch! I’m so glad to see several teams trying to tackle this hard problem of complexity in the modern data stack.

I’m Shirshanka, the founder of the DataHub project, occasional responder to HN threads and reachable at https://slack.datahubproject.io :)

I wanted to respond to some of the text here since DataHub and Acryl Data was directly mentioned.

1. We’ve heard repeatedly from the community that DataHub quickstart just works in 5 mins or less (besides a current known issue with M1: thanks Apple!). Once people are able to show value with the quickstart and the pre-packaged connectors that connect upto 20+ systems, they quickly move towards a deployment model based on helm, that is open source and maintained by the Acryl team. All of this requires no code. Deploying DataHub using the provided helm charts is also quite easy based on what we’re hearing from the community.

2. Acryl Data is reimagining what a data catalog can do, data discovery, data observability and federated data governance. We believe that techniques like semantic knowledge graphs are only useful and reliable if they are built on top of a live and fresh operational metadata graph. Also we see ourselves not just as an “end user tool”, but as a central fabric through which metadata is stored, and transformed before integrating in other tools. As a result we are intentionally, API-first and stream-first.

3. We already offer the open source DataHub demo at https://demo.datahubproject.io. People talk to Acryl Data after they have already tried out the open source product and they are looking for a managed version that has more to offer.

Re: Launch HN: Secoda (YC S21) – Searchable Company Data

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Post by reilly3000 »

Etai wrote: post #17
gregdoesit wrote: post #4

A very cool approach. When I worked at Uber, there were internal tools to query data sources. In practice, I found few people outside data scientists knew how to query the data, or know what was available. I was an engineer and barely used this tool, until a peer DS showed me how to do this. Even then I was overwhelmed by the number of tables to join, knowing what data source contained what data, or knowing which tab…

1. How do you go about permission? We have pretty advanced RBAC in Secoda. You can make anyone a viewer, guest, admin or editor in the workspace. Viewers and Editors are only able to see the information. Secondly, we allow you to create "groups" for different functions in the organizations (ie. marketing, sales etc.). You can choose to share any resource with a specific user or group. This works similar to the RBAC t…

Do you or do you have plans to support AD / LDAP directories? Google Groups?

Re: Launch HN: Secoda (YC S21) – Searchable Company Data

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Post by ramish94 »

Etai wrote: post #22
ramish94 wrote: post #19

As you may already know, integrations are the heart and soul for products like this. I'm assuming you're already being bombarded by potential/current users asking "when will you have integration X?". What is your strategy to scale out & maintain integrations? Speaking from experience, it's not something that is easy to scale out unless you have a dedicated team whose job is to build them out, or you have some third-p…

You're spot on. One thing we're doing to deal with the long tail of integrations is opening up an API to customers. We're also considering open sourcing that part of the product, but haven't made a firm decision on that yet. Would love to chat if you're open to it. We're definitely looking for people in product. Feel free to send me an email to etai@secoda.co

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