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ryi | 1 year ago | on: Oxy: Build SQL bots and automations easily

Hey folks! We just launched a yaml-based open source framework for building SQL bots and automations called Oxy. You can build an answer engine for your team, automate report generation or deep dive analysis, etc.

In short, we wanted to make it easier for analysts to build with LLMs. Would love to hear your thoughts!

ryi | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Supaglue – open-source unified API

Very nice. API work is so rife with inefficiencies, standardization/unification to any extent would save so much dev time

ryi | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: New kind of data notebook for SQL, Python, and viz

Heck yeah. Appreciate that :)

ryi | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: New kind of data notebook for SQL, Python, and viz

Yes! I'm one of the founders!

I think of the analytics world as split into two camps: self-service (exposing data without interpretation) and custom analyses (exposing data with interpretation).

Hyperquery is solidly in the "custom analyses" camp. We have visualization capabilities as well, but we're best for questions that can't be directly answered with Looker. Situations where you need to do custom analyses imbued with rich interpretation. Does that make sense?

ryi | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave

Thank you for sharing this. It always felt like I couldn't complain when, by all appearances, you have a reasonable job, strong industry name on your resume, and golden handcuffs. But mental imprisonment without autonomy, without ownership. Can be truly grating.

ryi | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Metaframe – search your data warehouse from the command-line

Some background: Often you need a quick reminder of table names/column names of frequently-used tables. This stores this info locally so it's super easy to search, quickly. You can also take some personal notes that are stored alongside table metadata.

For smaller companies, this is a viable, very very quick alternative to standing up existing OS catalogs.

ryi | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Metaframe – an open-source, CLI data catalog and documentation tool

Some background: I've worked at companies that do and don't have data catalogs/data discovery tools, and I also spent some time trying to set existing open-source implementations up for friend's startups. But it was surprisingly hard, especially to keep them stable. Considering most people only look at a few tables, I figured there must be a way to make a more lightweight stable version. And since I (and it sounds like a lot of my friends) spend a lot of time on the command-line, I figured I'd try to build out something there...

Enter metaframe! It's easy to install (a single brew command), has a very quick search (leveraging fzf), allows for personal documentation, and uses a text-based backend (no kafka, janus, atlas, neo4j, sns queues), so your metadata and docs are easily accessible and even git versionable. Would love feedback/thoughts.

ryi | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Choose – An alternative to cut and sometimes awk

While development has not stopped, there haven't really been many advances in improving the syntax. Many of these tools are stuck in awkard, unintuitive syntax, which is cumbersome unless you use them frequently. I feel like the renaissance has lately been one of usability, which I personally really appreciate. Obviously, hard-core daily users would disagree, but considering I use `awk` at most once every 6 months, I hate that I need to spend 20 minutes re-learning how to use it every single time, particularly for basic purposes.