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36,510 | 31,551 | |
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10.0 | 10.0 | |
about 9 hours ago | about 2 hours ago | |
Clojure | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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Metabase
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HackTheBox - Writeup Analytics
Remote Code Execution via H2
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Blazer: Business Intelligence Made Simple
We've used it for about a year - Blazer is okay if you need a quick SQL query console, but we found it lacking as an actual business intelligence tool. The support for graphs and dashboards is limited, for graphs it requires you to structure the query in an exact way as you can see in the Blazer readme.
After some research on available alternatives that don't break the bank, we decided to deploy a self-hosted instance of Metabase[0]. This took only a few minutes to set up using their Docker image[1] and it has much better graphing capabilities and you can easily put a custom layout together for dashboards. Upgrading is similarly easy (just redeploy). Also easy to configure: data sources, hiding or changing the data type of a column, G Suite sign-in for our domain. Highly recommend it if you need anything more than Blazer's table output.
[0]: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
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Is Tableau Dead?
I've never used Tableau, but heard a lot of hate about it. However, in my previous role, we were big fans of Metabase (https://metabase.com). You can also self-host it, which was a huge win for us.
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My mental model of Clojure transducers
It seems folks want a working example. Here's one in prod:
Metabase is a BI tool, backend written mostly in Clojure. Like basically all BI tools they have this intermediate representation language thing so you write the same thing in "MBQL (metabase query language)" and it theoretically becomes same query in like, Postgres and Mongo and whatever. End user does not usually write MBQL, it's a service for the frontend querybuilding UI thing and lots of other frontend UI stuff mainly in usage.
Whole processing from MBQL -> your SQL or whatever is done via a buncha big-ass transducers. Metabase is not materially faster than other BI tools (because all the other BI tools do something vaguely similar in their langs) but it's pretty comparable speed and the whole thing was materially written by like 5 peeps
https://github.com/metabase/metabase/blob/master/src/metabas...
(nb: I used to work for Metabase but currently do not. but open core is open core)
- Upgrade Your Metabase Installation
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Upgrade your Metabase installation immediately
They haven't released the source, and the compiled versions are non-trivial to diff (e.g. there are nondeterministic numbers from the clojure compiler that seem to have changed from one to the other, and .clj files have been removed from the jar).
The old version has `hash=1bb88f5`, which is a public commit: https://github.com/metabase/metabase/commit/1bb88f5
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Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) โ open-source CRM
We are unsure about the right license to use, so this is a great feedback. We had a MIT license one week ago that we know that we cannot hold on long term and we felt we were lying to the community by keeping an MIT license and changing it in one year.
By using AGPL, we feel it's the right level of restriction. It's the license used by Metabase for example (https://github.com/metabase/metabase) that many companies use internally.
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Ask HN: Open-Source Self-Hosted No-Code Platforms?
The solution really depends on what sort of problems you are trying to solve and who your customers are.
There are a fair few low-code solutions out there for reporting and data visualisation that are great for finance and marketing teams for example. e.g. https://metabase.com/ , https://evidence.dev/
For multipurpose SMB workflows and organisational processes, I have used n8n in the recent past and found it was quite good and incredibly easy to maintain. https://n8n.io/engineering-resources/
For enterprise processes I'd go with Camunda (solely based on recommendations and not first hand experience). Although only parts of their platform are OSS https://github.com/camunda
Bear in mind that some of these are not suitable if you want to build something that competes with them while taking their OSS code. But are perfectly fine otherwise.
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916 days of Emacs
Anyway, I have a collection of scripts that merge ActivityWatch data from all my machines and WakaTime exports to a PostgreSQL database which I then query with a project called Metabase. If you're curious, the scripts are in a repository called sqrt-data. I've been playing with this for ~4-5 years already I think.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
Metabase | https://metabase.com | REMOTE | Full-time | Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, and DevOps engineers
Metabase is open source analytics software that lets anyone in your company rummage around in the databases you have. It connects to a number of databases / data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL, etc).
appsmith
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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
appsmith โ Low code project to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 15+ databases and any API.
- Why I'm skeptical of low-code
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Building a signature capture widget with an Appsmith Iframe and SignaturePad.js
For instance, although we don't have a native signature capture widget (yet), you can easily build one with just a few lines of JavaScript, and the signaturePad.js library.
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How to build a Google Meet AI assistant app in 10 minutes without coding
Effective communication and efficient meeting management are key to a team's success in the modern workplace. Recognizing this, we will develop an AI-powered meeting assistant app to transform Google Meet recordings into automatically generated meeting notes with key takeaways and action items. The blog post is tailored for every creator from developers to no-coders who are interested in the intersection of AI and productivity tools. It's particularly useful for those with limited AI-development experience and who want to build AI applications by using simple low-code tools like Unbody and Appsmith.
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NoCode Newbie: Restaurant hoping to consolidate and reduce overhead
And if you don't need a mobile app and can get by with web only, check out Appsmith. It's open-source, can connect to Google Sheets, Airtable, and any API or database, and is free for unlimited users and apps. Feel free to DM me if you need a hand getting started with either one. I'm Joseph from the Appsmith Developer Relations team, and GreenFlux on the AppSheet forums.
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๐ฅ๐ฅ Our awesome OSS friends ๐
Appsmith- Build build custom software on top of your data.
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Git in Appsmith: Every Developer Has Been Saved by Git โ So, Why Isnโt it a Feature of App Platforms?
This wasn't an easy journey. While this functionality was in high demand, early versions were frustrating to use. In our earliest implementations, it wasn't even possible to pinpoint where the conflicts were in a file. Even members of the Appsmith development team would avoid using our early Git implementations. We even had a rule for our internal โHackathonsโ that using the Git feature was banned because it kept breaking! So we know why other app platforms had avoided fully implementing Git: it really was a challenge to get it working right.
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The Ultimate Guide to Building Internal Tools in 2024
Suggest features and help to guide Appsmithโs future: Appsmith's community keeps us at the forefront of internal tools with feature requests for the latest third-party integrations and robust community support.
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Asian hornet detector with Baserow and AppSmith! ๐
Ever tried building a responsive web application using AppSmith as the frontend and Baserow as the backend? Well, Frederik Duchi created a new set of videos showcasing the entire process! The videos include an interesting use case: reporting a nest of Asian hornets in an area. ๐คฏ
- Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?
What are some alternatives?
Apache Superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform [Moved to: https://github.com/apache/superset]
ToolJet - Low-code platform for building business applications. Connect to databases, cloud storages, GraphQL, API endpoints, Airtable, Google sheets, OpenAI, etc and build apps using drag and drop application builder. Built using JavaScript/TypeScript. ๐
lightdash - Self-serve BI to 10x your data team โก๏ธ
budibase - Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes ๐
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
react-admin - A frontend Framework for building data-driven applications running on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using TypeScript, React and Material Design
superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Directus - The Modern Data Stack ๐ฐ โ Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.
Redash - Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
Strapi - ๐ Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. Itโs 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
nocodb - ๐ฅ ๐ฅ ๐ฅ Open Source Airtable Alternative