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Re:Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps by mrwnmonm on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:32PM (#26652757)
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?

Re:Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps by barry-mccardel on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:36PM (#26654024)
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.

Re:Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps by mrwnmonm on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:51AM (#26658443)
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.

Re:Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps by mrwnmonm on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:34PM (#26652779)
Love the "Made with" section at the bottom :)

Cool

Re:Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps by sails on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:34AM (#26648589)
I like the notion of a Data Workspace, and that you are supporting both SQL and Python. Very interesting.
Re:Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps by swordsmith8 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:19PM (#26650085)
Agreed, like the dual language support! So useful given the rise of "analytics engineers" and other data org multi-tool workers.
Re:Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps by maclockard on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:43AM (#26648696)
Oh hey! I work here. Happy to answer any questions folks would have
Re:Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps by mrshu on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:29AM (#26679007)
Just out of curiosity, how does Hex compare to https://deepnote.com/?