Show HN: I spent 8 months building a "Data Hub" that nobody used, so I pivoted

[aliefe04]

I’ll be honest. I built a platform to host datasets thinking it would be the next big thing. I spent 8 months on it. Result: 0 users. It was a ghost town.

Instead of deleting the repo and crying in a corner, I realized the only part of the app that was actually cool was the engine: It could turn any CSV upload into a queryable API in milliseconds.

So I stripped away the social features, killed the "hub" idea, and turned it into a simple utility tool for frontend devs who hate writing backend boilerplate.

It’s called Shodata. You drag a CSV, you get a REST API. That's it.

It’s running on FastAPI + DuckDB. Roast my pivot.