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Re: Stripe Sigma

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Is here anything out there which * connects to a database * allows a database admin to write a query once (maybe for $50 a query) against your database * allows the query to have variables and hints in the code * visualizes the result set as various types of graphs * for each variable, lets you set values and ranges and steps etc. * runs the queries and generates reports I think this could be a good business. If you…

I have been pondering something like this for ages, as most solutions seem to be insanely expensive. Found this though recently fwiw http://activereports.grapecity.com/server/

Re: Stripe Sigma

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post #114
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I'm not that familiar with Stripe, but my first impression is: why spend time on creating an inferior Metabase / Periscope / Power BI / Looker / mariusandra/insights clone? Just allow data export and if you really want to give a ready-to-use product to your customers, Metabase seems awesome for this kind of thing? Stripe could have particular constraints that I'm not aware of, but it seems to an example of not-invent…

maybe in order to help with sales and retention? can't see how it can hurt. I was making some edits in iMovie last week when I started talking to this video production professional. He started asking me why I wasn't using something more powerful like Final Cut and judging me for it. Mind you I was using final cut at least a decade ago and knew all about its capabilities. But he failed to realize that for what I neede…

I get what you're saying. Metabase is quite simple, by the way. I think you're assuming that all BI tools are heavy. You can get Metabase running in 5 minutes and you wouldn't know it from it's very intuitive GUI, which has it's limit. It's the iMovie in your iMovie vs. Final Cut analogy.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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post #72

Anybody else has problems reading the examples on that page? When I click on an example the source code for the example is rendered very blurry :-/

Do you have a screenshot? The examples I see aren't even images, they're text that I can select and copy.

Well, it was text here too, but the problem seems to be solved now. Thanks for looking after the problem :-)
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