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13 points by punknight ↗ HN
Hi All! We've spent a few months on getting an MVP together, and would love to get some feedback on whether this tool meets you needs. Here is a link to a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLi3vdKB-4&feature=emb_rel_pause

Here's a link to our website: https://www.structure.rest

And here's a blog article, I published today in the space: https://www.structure.rest/blog/using-a-data-analytics-stack-to-gain-business-insights

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replwoacause
The link to your demo video is actually a link to "Jazz Beats: Jazzy & Lofi Hip Hop Radio - Rainy Coffee Beats for Work, Study" in case you want to update it.

:)

punknight
I can't edit the post, but Thank you. Here is a link to the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QddtEL45gNY&feature=youtu.be
replwoacause
Demo looks great and I really like the user interface. Nice and clean. I went looking for pricing however and did not see anything on your website nor did I see anything indicating your are in beta. Is this a paid service and if so what is your pricing structure?
punknight
We have some enterprise level features that will only be accessible through partnerships, but the core product is free and open source.
punknight
Hi Replwoacause! Do you have any additional information on what your individual needs might be? It would be very helpful to us to know what tools you currently use, and why those tools are useful to you. We have received a lot of positive feedback and some feature requests, so we are trying to group feature requests by common use cases.
izyda
I think there is a real market need here for Business Intelligence analysts, looking for new tools along with their new datawarehouse (ie. Snowflake).

Alteryx has been around this space for forever and has had great (really astounding) success with their UI. So, I think your idea of keeping the UI but using SQL (to version to control, etc.) makes sense. In the future, it seems totally possible that you add more drag-and-drop functionality that allows non-SQL capable analysts to make queries, join things, filter, etc. (like in Alteryx) but that then actually generates SQL.

From a company building perspective, I think there is an open question whether you need to reinvent the framework yourself or use dbt under the hood (already huge community & permissive license) and simply offer a better/alternative UI targeted at a different audience.

punknight
Thanks for the feedback! We are looking for more info on user needs in this space. Sounds like you currently use Alteryx + Snowflake. Any additional information you could provide about your use case/needs would be helpful. Seems like some people are more interested in open source tools that can be run on their own computer (like DBT) while others are looking for more of an enterprise use case. What about you?
izyda
I shot you (or your co-founder) a note on your Slack - let's pick it up there?