Yobulk
Data
csv importer
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
8 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 4 for, 7 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good use case and promising concept
From 2 comments
wait… if importing malformed csvs gets automated that’s like half of a data professional’s job gone in a poof of smoke /s. jk -- great use case so often w/ pandas I’d: 1. “yeet”…
data_ders on HNThis looks good and promising! Congrats and best wishes, yosai!!
yarapavan on HN
Objections
Open-source tool depends on closed-source OpenAI API
From 1 comment
"Open source tool powered by closed source API" Is it really open source then?
dontcontactme on HN
GPT output may be wrong and risky for data correctness
From 2 comments
This strikes me as an idea as bad as the Xerox document scanner that implemented a compression algorithm that changed digits. It'll be really fun debugging when something…
bcrl on HNWhen I read the headline I thought this would take a few rows of your CSV file and generate the schema from that using AI. Seems like you still need to manually describe the…
WhiteNoiz3 on HN
Privacy concerns about sending customer data to third parties
From 1 comment
Does this send all the data to a third party? What if it contains personal information?
jimlongton on HN
Requests
Better documentation and examples of use versus Flatfile
From 1 comment
I’m looking for a solution to this problem at the moment. Of course I could DIY, but I’m more attracted to a solution like flat file or YoBulk, rather than reinvent the wheel.…
RileyJames on HN
API access to query data
From 2 comments
icelancer,Right now YoBulk is flattening the CSV to JSON with key-value document DB format and storing in MongoDB.You can use GPT3 to create mongo queries to fetch the data.We…
yosai on HN@anoonmoose we have an internal pipeline which streams the monogoDB data to any CSV or any webhook url path.it's a export pipeline which streams the processed data to CSVs.We…
yosai on HN
Questions
Does it handle large files
From 1 comment
This is what exactly I was looking for. Will it help me to run big files and cleanse?
cjtechie on HN
Does it send data to third parties
From 1 comment
Does this send all the data to a third party? What if it contains personal information?
jimlongton on HN
Alternatives named
Flatfile
From 2 comments
I’m looking for a solution to this problem at the moment. Of course I could DIY, but I’m more attracted to a solution like flat file or YoBulk, rather than reinvent the wheel.…
RileyJames on HN@data_ders We realized that more than 70% of business data is shared in CSV and Excel formats, and only a small percentage use API integrations for data exchange..So CSV is here…
yosai on HN
OneSchema, Osmos, Dropbase
From 1 comment
some of the companies in this space>> https://flatfile.com/,https://www.oneschema.co/,https://www.osmos.io/,https://www.dropbase.io/
yosai on HN