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sails
I like the notion of a Data Workspace, and that you are supporting both SQL and Python. Very interesting.
swordsmith8
Agreed, like the dual language support! So useful given the rise of "analytics engineers" and other data org multi-tool workers.
mrwnmonm
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?

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

Cool

barry-mccardel
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.

mrwnmonm
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.