Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps

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Post by smcavinney1 » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 3:08 PM UTC

Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps
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Re: Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps

#2

Post by sails » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 3:34 PM UTC

I like the notion of a Data Workspace, and that you are supporting both SQL and Python. Very interesting.

Re: Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps

#3

Post by maclockard » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 3:43 PM UTC

Oh hey! I work here. Happy to answer any questions folks would have

Re: Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps

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Post by swordsmith8 » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

sails wrote: post #2

I like the notion of a Data Workspace, and that you are supporting both SQL and Python. Very interesting.

Agreed, like the dual language support! So useful given the rise of "analytics engineers" and other data org multi-tool workers.

Re: Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps

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Post by mrwnmonm » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 8:32 PM UTC

Very interesting. Why didn't this reach the homepage?

I like how you managed to make a very good functional service for the first launch, not a half-baked one.

How much time did you take to build this?

Re: Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps

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Post by mrwnmonm » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 8:34 PM UTC

mrwnmonm wrote: post #5

Very interesting. Why didn't this reach the homepage? I like how you managed to make a very good functional service for the first launch, not a half-baked one. How much time did you take to build this?

Love the "Made with" section at the bottom :)

Cool

Re: Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps

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Post by barry-mccardel » Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 10:36 PM UTC

mrwnmonm wrote: post #5

Very interesting. Why didn't this reach the homepage? I like how you managed to make a very good functional service for the first launch, not a half-baked one. How much time did you take to build this?

Founder here. No idea why it didn't reach homepage although it wasn't a big focus for us :)

First line of code was November 2019! So ~14 months or so.

Re: Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps

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Post by mrwnmonm » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 9:51 AM UTC

barry-mccardel wrote: post #7

mrwnmonm wrote: post #5

Very interesting. Why didn't this reach the homepage? I like how you managed to make a very good functional service for the first launch, not a half-baked one. How much time did you take to build this?

Founder here. No idea why it didn't reach homepage although it wasn't a big focus for us :) First line of code was November 2019! So ~14 months or so.

Impressive.

Do you mind sharing the technologies you are using?

Let me think here for a moment:

If I were to build a service like that, first thing to think about is the connectors, are there open source database connectors?, I guess maybe at this point there is a lot of them. But then you have a lot of other parts to do. The SQL cells (as you call them), how everything talks to one another, the charts, the tables, the comments. Well done, man.

I have two more questions: did you have an experience working on something similar before? and what is the chart lib are you using?

I completely understand if you don't like to share these info.

Re: Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps

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Post by mrshu » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 7:29 AM UTC

maclockard wrote: post #3

Oh hey! I work here. Happy to answer any questions folks would have

Just out of curiosity, how does Hex compare to https://deepnote.com/?