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Re: Show HN: Tablum.io – No-Code Self-Service BI/Data Analytics Tool

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Post by tmtwhn »

instad wrote: post #4
tmtwhn wrote: post #3

No information on pricing and social only logins? I was interested in this product, but no thanks. At the very least if you're not ready to commit you could provide "beta" pricing for a year until you get that figured out.

There's no paid plans at the moment. Just try it out for free with full features. Just curious, why the social logins are bad?

Pretty much what the others here have been pointing out, that I have to hand over my data before I can evaluate whether or not I trust you with it. Feel free to verify the email I use to prevent abuse.

I've been evaluating a lot of products in this space in the past week and I think it is a space that could do with a developer-first approach. But to do that I still want to see a path towards using it at scale that's a little more fleshed than a "talk to sales" equivalent. Even if this were open source, I would be happy to pay for someone else to host and scale it, but at least I would know I couldn't be unreasonably locked in after making my business depend on it.

Re: Show HN: Tablum.io – No-Code Self-Service BI/Data Analytics Tool

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Post by prepend »

The dream of no code lives on.

I’ve tried many no code tools over the decades. As an individual and as a group.

Ease of use is really important. But I think easy for Python programmers is better than easy for people to click. Logic is logic, so whether you program in code or via some wack gui, you still need programmers.

Every time it’s come down to regretting committing to a closed, proprietary “programming language” that is the no code tool.

The exception is for simple stuff. But with data projects simple projects usually get complicated fast. So Id rather use a tool that scales well rather than one that starts easy but then is very hard to scale.

Re: Show HN: Tablum.io – No-Code Self-Service BI/Data Analytics Tool

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Post by Vespasian »

abakker wrote: post #8
instad wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no paid plans at the moment. Just try it out for free with full features. Just curious, why the social logins are bad?

because this is a tool for doing work? Nobody (or very few) HN people are going to want to do BI with their facebook accounts, if we even have FB accounts.

Many (read most) won't have a professional Facebook or Google account.

My boss would not be happy if I had to use a Facebook account on my work machine.

And who evaluates BI tools in their free time?

Re: Show HN: Tablum.io – No-Code Self-Service BI/Data Analytics Tool

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Post by marcinzm »

roystonvassey wrote: post #9

Cool stuff. Just curious- how does it stack against Metabase ( https://www.metabase.com/product/ ) for example? I used Metabase a few years back and was really blown away with the ease of use.

This seems more of an end-to-end system including etl job scheduling, data loading and local storage.

Re: Show HN: Tablum.io – No-Code Self-Service BI/Data Analytics Tool

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Post by hermitcrab »

tmtwhn wrote: post #11
instad wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no paid plans at the moment. Just try it out for free with full features. Just curious, why the social logins are bad?

Pretty much what the others here have been pointing out, that I have to hand over my data before I can evaluate whether or not I trust you with it. Feel free to verify the email I use to prevent abuse. I've been evaluating a lot of products in this space in the past week and I think it is a space that could do with a developer-first approach. But to do that I still want to see a path towards using it at scale that's…

There are desktop alternatives (such as Easy Data Transform, Alteryx and Tableau Prep) where your data stays on your machine. Which helps with latency, as well as privacy.

Re: Show HN: Tablum.io – No-Code Self-Service BI/Data Analytics Tool

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Post by tmtwhn »

instad wrote: post #10
garciasn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because they allow third parties to build bigger ID graphs and audiences for ad targeting. By all means, have them for convenience for those users who want to use them, but for the rest of us who know better, we’d appreciate the option to provide you our burner/one-time email addresses.

We're going to extend the way to login for the cloud version. Currently, email/password auth is available only in self-hosted version (docker image installed on your VPS). Feel free to reach out to me info@tablum.io, if you'd like to test it. Thanks.

Glad to hear this. Marketing that you'll offer a self hosted version and that email logins are coming soon would go a long way to improving trust.

Re: Show HN: Tablum.io – No-Code Self-Service BI/Data Analytics Tool

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Post by tmtwhn »

hermitcrab wrote: post #15
tmtwhn wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much what the others here have been pointing out, that I have to hand over my data before I can evaluate whether or not I trust you with it. Feel free to verify the email I use to prevent abuse. I've been evaluating a lot of products in this space in the past week and I think it is a space that could do with a developer-first approach. But to do that I still want to see a path towards using it at scale that's…

There are desktop alternatives (such as Easy Data Transform, Alteryx and Tableau Prep) where your data stays on your machine. Which helps with latency, as well as privacy.

In this instance I'm referring to my personal data that can be pulled from social profiles, not the data to be analysed. :)

Re: Show HN: Tablum.io – No-Code Self-Service BI/Data Analytics Tool

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Post by eatonphil »

roystonvassey wrote: post #9

Cool stuff. Just curious- how does it stack against Metabase ( https://www.metabase.com/product/ ) for example? I used Metabase a few years back and was really blown away with the ease of use.

Metabase is primarily for sql and this system seems to support more than just sql.

Re: Show HN: Tablum.io – No-Code Self-Service BI/Data Analytics Tool

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Post by instad »

roystonvassey wrote: post #9

Cool stuff. Just curious- how does it stack against Metabase ( https://www.metabase.com/product/ ) for example? I used Metabase a few years back and was really blown away with the ease of use.

Thanks! Well, in general they both are self-service BIs, and have common features. Yet, TABLUM.IO is focused more on faster data extraction from files e.g. you can just drag and drop JSON, XML or CSV file to load data from it. Or specify an URL for data loading from remote host. Then it is stored in a local storage as a "view" (similar to sql table). And you can work with it like it is an SQL table using sqlite syntax: JOIN with other loaded data, filter, clean up, export or generate charts. Of cause, it has connectors to popular DBs such as postgres, mysql and clickhouse.

Ultimately, we're working towards a faster data analysis so you won't spend too much time setting up connectors to files and databases. Just get the results as fast as possible.

Same with data analysis: it has embedded support for aggregate - and window-functions. You can get "MOVING AVERAGE" just clicking the table columns (no keystrokes required).

Dashboards are not yet implemented, but we're working on it.

Thanks!

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