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Me and My team have been working on a Looker alternative for a couple of years. Hope this is the right time to give a pitch. We as a company love to assist our

Me and My team have been working on a Looker alternative for a couple of years. Hope this is the right time to give a pitch. We as a company love to assist our clients with a free consultation in understanding their data better. This will take you to the direct demo: https://demo.katoai.co/login?email=demo@katoai.co&password=katoai&ref=hn https://demo.katoai.co/login?email=demo@katoai.co&password=k... I can talk a lot about it if anyone is interested.

systemBuilder 7y ago
That looks pretty much like a dress-up of Superset, intended to hide that it's superset.
- Achshar 7y ago
  We do a bunch of stuff superset doesn't. Mostly related to filters and how they're implemented. We never mess with user's query. We only supply filters to it. Superset doesn't let users write optimized queries. We replaced superset for one of our largest clients and they are extremely happy with the move. This is pure js as well, nothing like superset tech stack wise.
ddon 7y ago
What is the target market? Can small business use this? Looks pretty cool!
- seektable 7y ago
  For small business you can also check our https://www.seektable.com https://www.seektable.com (primarily for data crunching / reporting)
- Achshar 7y ago
  The target market is anyone who has any kind of data. CSV, mysql, etc. Basically Tableau but much cheaper and customisable. We already have a few small business using Kato. They seem to enjoy that.
  - tomnipotent 7y ago
    > Basically Tableau You mean Mode/Periscope/Superset/Metabase. I don't see anything that put's Kato near Tableau's offerings like Server, Prep etc.
    - Achshar 7y ago
      Yes we probably lie close to Superset and Mode than we do to Tableau but I believe the data transformations, access level (sharing) and deep integration put us apart from those. Tableau's quite bit more mature than we are but we already support self hosted service, OAuth based auth integration, sophisticated user access level based sharing for all resources (reports, connections, users, dashboards, visualizations, product features, etc). We don't cost an arm and a leg either.
      - tomnipotent 7y ago
        > data transformations, access level (sharing) and deep integration put us apart from those I couldn't find anything about these features on my first pass, though I do now see the "Cleanup" bit on the "Data Visualization" page. I would have really liked to see more about features/tools/strengths and less nebulous marketing promises.
        Achshar 7y ago
        That... would be the marketing team for you. We do spend quite a bit of our time adding stuff that I don't think I've seen anywhere else but is extremely useful for some of our biggest clients.
        tomnipotent 7y ago
        > I don't think I've seen anywhere else Market that stuff! Blog posts, list of features, service comparison - anything. For example, I know that Tableau offers in-memory storage that can help improve performance by bring data in locally and not hitting the original source. Kato mentions something about "10x performance improvement", but there's zero explanation how this is accomplished.
nixgeek 7y ago
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- Achshar 7y ago
  Looks like HN hugged it too hard. We have a limit of once every 3 seconds.
sytse 7y ago
Interesting, the Meltano people would love to discuss on collaborating on an open alternative to LookML, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115400

systemBuilder 7y ago

That looks pretty much like a dress-up of Superset, intended to hide that it's superset.

Achshar 7y ago
We do a bunch of stuff superset doesn't. Mostly related to filters and how they're implemented. We never mess with user's query. We only supply filters to it. Superset doesn't let users write optimized queries. We replaced superset for one of our largest clients and they are extremely happy with the move. This is pure js as well, nothing like superset tech stack wise.

ddon 7y ago

What is the target market? Can small business use this? Looks pretty cool!

seektable 7y ago
For small business you can also check our https://www.seektable.com https://www.seektable.com (primarily for data crunching / reporting)
Achshar 7y ago
The target market is anyone who has any kind of data. CSV, mysql, etc. Basically Tableau but much cheaper and customisable. We already have a few small business using Kato. They seem to enjoy that.
- tomnipotent 7y ago
  > Basically Tableau You mean Mode/Periscope/Superset/Metabase. I don't see anything that put's Kato near Tableau's offerings like Server, Prep etc.
  - Achshar 7y ago
    Yes we probably lie close to Superset and Mode than we do to Tableau but I believe the data transformations, access level (sharing) and deep integration put us apart from those. Tableau's quite bit more mature than we are but we already support self hosted service, OAuth based auth integration, sophisticated user access level based sharing for all resources (reports, connections, users, dashboards, visualizations, product features, etc). We don't cost an arm and a leg either.
    - tomnipotent 7y ago
      > data transformations, access level (sharing) and deep integration put us apart from those I couldn't find anything about these features on my first pass, though I do now see the "Cleanup" bit on the "Data Visualization" page. I would have really liked to see more about features/tools/strengths and less nebulous marketing promises.
      - Achshar 7y ago
        That... would be the marketing team for you. We do spend quite a bit of our time adding stuff that I don't think I've seen anywhere else but is extremely useful for some of our biggest clients.
        tomnipotent 7y ago
        > I don't think I've seen anywhere else Market that stuff! Blog posts, list of features, service comparison - anything. For example, I know that Tableau offers in-memory storage that can help improve performance by bring data in locally and not hitting the original source. Kato mentions something about "10x performance improvement", but there's zero explanation how this is accomplished.

nixgeek 7y ago

{"status":false,"message":"You're doing that too often. Please wait 3 seconds."}

Achshar 7y ago
Looks like HN hugged it too hard. We have a limit of once every 3 seconds.

sytse 7y ago

Interesting, the Meltano people would love to discuss on collaborating on an open alternative to LookML, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115400