Show HN: Query Fast – A Lightweight AI-Powered Data Analytics Tool

Posted by sverg on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:14AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hi everyone!

I’m a software engineer with a passion for building products. After struggling to find a lightweight analytics solution for my own projects—one that wouldn’t require constant SQL tinkering—I decided to create Query Fast.

What is Query Fast?

  - A lightweight data analytics tool aimed at individuals and teams who want to be data-driven without having to write SQL.  
  - An AI agent (powered by GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet) that’s aware of your database and its schema, so you can simply ask questions in a chat interface.
  - Integrated query runner in chat
  - Automatic data visualization and data tables for quick insights.  
  - Drag-and-drop dashboards for building custom views.  
  - Compatibility with Postgres, Redshift, BigQuery, MongoDB, Snowflake, and more coming.

Why I built it

I found myself jumping between ChatGPT and SQL query tools for every new insight I needed, which felt too cumbersome. Query Fast aims to bridge that gap by letting you chat with your database, visualize results, and build dashboards — all in one place.

Check out https://query-fast.com/ for a quick test run. I’d love to know what you think, especially any features you’d want to see next or areas that might need improvement.

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Re:Show HN: Query Fast – A Lightweight AI-Powered Data Analy... by sverg on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:31AM (#42621722)

Creator of Query Fast here, thanks so much for checking it out! I first launched at the end of November, so it’s still quite early in the journey. Surprisingly, a company recently reached out about acquiring the product, but for now, I’m curious to see where this leads. A few companies have already started using it—currently for free—since I’m still experimenting and not ready to monetize yet.

If you’d like to give it a try and share feedback, I’m happy to help you get set up at no cost!

I’d love to hear about what works well, what’s confusing, or any features you’d like to see. Since it’s just me building this right now, every piece of feedback goes a long way toward helping me improve.

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Re:Show HN: Query Fast – A Lightweight AI-Powered Data Analy... by BohuTANG on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @11:25PM (#42641625)

Thanks, sverg! From my experience, query-fast is a better product than many other AI-to-SQL solutions. I'm really looking forward to this product.

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Re:Show HN: Query Fast – A Lightweight AI-Powered Data Analy... by sverg on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:16AM (#42647057)

Thanks for the feedback, so nice to hear!

Let me know if you want to give it a spin, I'd be happy to give you free access for testing!

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Re:Show HN: Query Fast – A Lightweight AI-Powered Data Analy... by BohuTANG on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @11:23PM (#42641603)

Interesting, I tried query-fast and it's impressive! It would be great to add Databend as a data source—it's a cost-efficient alternative to Snowflake: https://www.databend.com/

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Re:Show HN: Query Fast – A Lightweight AI-Powered Data Analy... by sverg on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:26AM (#42647193)

That's cool! I'll definitely look in to Databend.

Looks like I could integrate it using BendSQL? How much does BendSQL differ from PostgreSQL and other more widely used dialects? Thinking I might have to fine tune a model specifically for BendSQL to make it work well with Query Fast.

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Re:Show HN: Query Fast – A Lightweight AI-Powered Data Analy... by BohuTANG on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @06:28AM (#42696036)

BendSQL is a cli tool.

I suggest to use the drivers list here: https://docs.databend.com/guides/sql-clients/developers/

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