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Congrats on the launch! Very impressive product!
I'm surprised that the developer experience around sandboxing on macOS is generally so bad. Seatbelt is in limbo and apple containers are just a pain to work with as some have highlighted in this thread
I will charge you $100 to answer that question
We weren’t affected, but as a startup I’ll take a minor outage over getting stonewalled by GCP/Azure/AWS any day. Railway has consistently been responsive and actually understands the problem you’re describing. With the big three, unless you’re spending serious money or paying for premium support, you often just get links to docs instead of real help.
We include $5 in credits for every new account, after which you can pay-as-you-go for credits. I can drop some more credits in your account so you get to try it out fully, let me know what's the email (I'm a at livedocs)
Livedocs runs locally on your machine or on customer-managed infra, has full terminal access, supports canvas mode for building custom UIs (not just charts), and uses long-running agent workflows with sub-agents coordinating work over time, etc
There is a lot more to data work than just SQL + charts like the tool you mentioned
True! Tried to do that with the video + the example prompts but definitely could use improvement. Thanks for the feedback
In our case, in order to run the queries we need to provision a sandbox and connect to your data sources to give meaningful answers, unlike a general purpose chat. We need to have some authentication to prevent abuse here, but the product itself has a free tier so you can use it without paying or needing a card.
Posted by
arsalanb on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:09PM
from the livedocs.com dept.
https://livedocs.com
Hi HN, I'm Arsalan, founder of LiveDocs (https://livedocs.com). We're building an AI-native data workspace that lets teams ask questions of their real data and have the system plan, execute, and maintain the analysis end-to-end.We previously posted about LiveDocs four years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735058). Back then, LiveDocs was a no-code analytics tool for stitching...
Posted by
arsalanb on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:04PM
from the show-hn dept.
Working on Livedocs.com
We are building a modern alternative to Jupyter, something like Cursor meets Jupyter.
https://livedocs.comAn AI data scientist for serious data work. Think of it like an AI native Jupyter notebook.
Check out livedocs.com, we built a notebook around Polars and DuckDB (disclaimer: I'm the founder)
We use Vega pretty heavily, its a broader ecosystem. Where it really shines is in combination with Altair and Vegafusion to do number-crunching on the backend and return a chart spec that can just be rendered on the front-end.
That makes it particularly useful when building interactive visualizations with a lot of data.
Is the Python code executing via Pyodide in the browser?
Out of curiosity, what took you 10 years? Keen to hear your journey as someone building in the same space..
Assuming you use a connection pool, why would it stop? Either the query returns a result or it doesnt? Am I missing something?
Noob question: What is the advantage of replicating data into a warehouse vs. just querying it in place on a postgres database?
That sounds like a great add! Will add this in over the weekend!
Posted by
arsalanb on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:11PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://timefinder.xyz
Being a remote team means we'd sometimes send calendar invites where somebody was dialing in in the wee hours of the morning, or late at night.Timezones are complex! It's so easy to pick an awkward time. So we hacked togetherhttp://timefinder.xyzNo sign up, no logins, just add your timezone and find a time that works for everyone with a single click!
This is great, especially to introduce new devs to models. I use (and love) TablePlus (
https://tableplus.com/) which has a diagram generator plugin that does the same!
Posted by
arsalanb on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:01PM
from the now-hiring dept.
I imagine this is possible because of better modulation of the acoustic and pressure controllers to minimize energy loss..
Posted by
arsalanb on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:27PM
from the equium.fr dept.
Livedocs YC W22 (
https://livedocs.com) | Fullstack engineer, front-end engineer, product designer | Senior or mid | Remote
Livedocs is a no-code analytics tool that helps non-technical teams bring live data from existing tools (like Stripe, Segment, and more) directly into their documents, dashboards, and reports. We are looking for engineers who are excited about building a better way for companies to work with data.
We are looking for candidates with an exceptional knowledge of Typescript, React, Node, Apollo, and Postgres. Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines, Airflow, Airbyte are a great bonus.
For the product design role, please apply directly with your portfolio. Front-end development skills are a huge bonus.
Apply by emailing me (Arsalan) directly — a[at]livedocs.com