Pretzel
Data
data exploration tool
SHOW HN2024
227points
74comments
#333of 3,515 in 2024
Top 10%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
10 positive, 24 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Browser-local and fast on large files
From 2 comments
Hey congrats on the Show HN. Local, browser based data exploration works for a lot of uses cases and is so much faster thancloud based tools. We've implemented something similar…
hitradostava on HNJust tried it out - thanks for sharing. We're a sales tech startup and I've had to look through large CSVs with prospecting information in the past - anything over 10 MB crashes…
MarcoConverta on HN
Chained transforms map well to PRQL
From 1 comment
I was recently searching for something like this - the ability to write PRQL queries on mobile is my ideal usecase. As you note, PRQL is perfect for putting together queries with…
DannyPage on HN
Objections
Browser tabs hit memory limits on very large datasets
From 2 comments
200mb of data is not a large file, and chromium tabs have a memory limit of something ridiculously low so actual large 20-100gb datasets render this useless.
logical_person on HNHey congrats on the Show HN. Local, browser based data exploration works for a lot of uses cases and is so much faster thancloud based tools. We've implemented something similar…
hitradostava on HN
Table filter UI is slow on large files
From 1 comment
Just tried it out - thanks for sharing. We're a sales tech startup and I've had to look through large CSVs with prospecting information in the past - anything over 10 MB crashes…
MarcoConverta on HN
Requests
Pivot table support
From 1 comment
Looks great and thanks for sharing! You mentioned that you went to some length to implement pivots. How far do you think you will take the pivot feature and UI? For financial…
dndn1 on HN
Save and share workflows
From 2 comments
Can we bookmark or localstorage our etl?
antman on HNVery cool. Would love to be able to save/share my work (could probably even be in the url string if the CSV were online).
xnx on HN
Parquet file support
From 1 comment
That looks great, I love all these new use cases for WASM that are starting to pop up. Are you planning on supporting parquet files any time soon? I'd love an easy way to just…
dns_snek on HN
Database connections
From 1 comment
Just tried it out - thanks for sharing. We're a sales tech startup and I've had to look through large CSVs with prospecting information in the past - anything over 10 MB crashes…
MarcoConverta on HN
Questions
Why use this instead of Excel or Google Sheets
From 1 comment
I enjoyed your demo video and played around with a CSV of my own. This is a cool project, but I have a (perhaps stupid) question: Why should I use this tool over Excel or Google…
ThreeMoonsAreUp on HN
How is it different from CSVFiddle and sql-workbench
From 1 comment
Thanks for building this as open-source! How is it different from CSVFiddle (which is also based on DuckDB-wasm, I think)? Ability to have multiple tables loaded and running join…
mathnmusic on HN
Alternatives named
Datasette
From 1 comment
What is this offering over something like datasette? https://datasette.io/ Or even OpenRefine? https://openrefine.org/
account-5 on HN
OpenRefine
From 1 comment
What is this offering over something like datasette? https://datasette.io/ Or even OpenRefine? https://openrefine.org/
account-5 on HN
Google Sheets
From 1 comment
I enjoyed your demo video and played around with a CSV of my own. This is a cool project, but I have a (perhaps stupid) question: Why should I use this tool over Excel or Google…
ThreeMoonsAreUp on HN
Perspective JS
From 1 comment
Right - I used to work in GS and they had this really great internal table display tool where you could simply drag a column from the top to the left side and it would Pivot +…
prasoonds on HN