Because they allow third parties to build bigger ID graphs and audiences for ad targeting.

By all means, have them for convenience for those users who want to use them, but for the rest of us who know better, we’d appreciate the option to provide you our burner/one-time email addresses.

We're going to extend the way to login for the cloud version. Currently, email/password auth is available only in self-hosted version (docker image installed on your VPS). Feel free to reach out to me [email protected], if you'd like to test it. Thanks.

Glad to hear this. Marketing that you'll offer a self hosted version and that email logins are coming soon would go a long way to improving trust.

Pretty much what the others here have been pointing out, that I have to hand over my data before I can evaluate whether or not I trust you with it. Feel free to verify the email I use to prevent abuse.

I've been evaluating a lot of products in this space in the past week and I think it is a space that could do with a developer-first approach. But to do that I still want to see a path towards using it at scale that's a little more fleshed than a "talk to sales" equivalent. Even if this were open source, I would be happy to pay for someone else to host and scale it, but at least I would know I couldn't be unreasonably locked in after making my business depend on it.

There are desktop alternatives (such as Easy Data Transform, Alteryx and Tableau Prep) where your data stays on your machine. Which helps with latency, as well as privacy.

In this instance I'm referring to my personal data that can be pulled from social profiles, not the data to be analysed. :)

Understood. But I would generally be more worried about uploading my data to the cloud, than using a social profile to do it.

We're offering a self-hosted version to keep your data on your server.

> There's no paid plans at the moment. Just try it out for free with full features.

OK. That's compelling enough.

> Just curious, why the social logins are bad?

How uniquely identifying are they to be honest?

because this is a tool for doing work? Nobody (or very few) HN people are going to want to do BI with their facebook accounts, if we even have FB accounts.

Many (read most) won't have a professional Facebook or Google account.

My boss would not be happy if I had to use a Facebook account on my work machine.

And who evaluates BI tools in their free time?

There's also Google login, do you have gmail? Is it OK to log in via a corporate gmail?

Outlook is bigger than Google for corporate email. I would suggest adding that (or better yet, listen to the other feedback and allow a standard email login flow).

Sure. We will add email registration soon.

Added email registration for the product. https://tablum.io