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Hello HN! I’m Sean, one of the makers of Olli. We’re looking forward to getting the HN community’s thoughts on what we’ve built.

Olli makes it really easy to build and share data apps. We provide AI-commands (similar to Notion) to generate tables, charts, data summaries, metrics, and more. Once you connect relational databases or warehouses, you can immediately start creating apps.

We’ve built this for teams that have both non-technical and technical team members who want to share data insights. The product is flexible, allowing you to manually edit SQL for any component.

Here’s a 3 min video demo of me spinning up a basic sales report: https://loom.com/share/51a7d7b4b9654218b3576c6655c0993d

If you want to try this with your own data, you can create a free account here and use our one-click deployment option on the homepage: https://app.olli.ai/signup

Thanks!

p.s. Here are instructions on exposing your local DB to Olli https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTUBjju66-EYZ-f2...

> A big piece of the product is focused on helping non-technical users identify things that they didn't even think to ask.

20-plus years of learning how to phrase queries for search engines has taught me a very rigid way of asking things. I'm slowly starting to become looser and use my creativity to ask for things.

Hopefully becoming a prompt engineer is not a huge skill we will need in the future ("Ignore previous instructions") but that we can be way more creative in open in the way we ask an oracle and get some useful results.

As for now, one thing that would be helpful is if after I asked, say ChatGPT something, that it would follow up more aggressively with things I could continue to converse with it about.

We're building https://www.olli.ai/ to help with this. User's can ask questions in natural language, but more importantly, Olli can suggest what questions to ask based on the data.

Thanks. Airbyte is a great third-party tool for creating custom ELT pipelines and accessing popular connectors. Our focus at Pipebird is different - we help companies work directly with their customers to share data.

To illustrate the difference, imagine ACME Inc. wants to pull its customer data from HubSpot. With Airbyte, they can use a pre-built connector that accesses data made available via the HubSpot API.

Now let's say HubSpot uses Pipebird to build native data sharing features for its customers. ACME Inc. can now deploy a secure data pipeline directly from HubSpot without involving any third-party. Since HubSpot is offering the pipelines, it can choose to expose more data than is made available via its API (Stripe has done this with their data pipeline product https://stripe.com/data-pipeline) and ACME Inc. doesn't need to worry about the pipeline breaking because it's coming directly from the source.

Thanks for the explanation. Does it mean HubSpot as the data source itself will have to maintain these native data pipelines?

Pipebird handles all of the actual plumbing (extraction, transfer scheduling, retries, setting up data sharing, etc).

The only thing HubSpot would have to do is set up their source and add a destination through our API.

Your company could offer this as a paid product to your customers. As an example, Stripe Data Pipelines https://stripe.com/data-pipeline is a paid product - customers are willing to pay them instead of a third-party.

We see this as a way for companies to strengthen relationships with their customers and grow revenue.

This is super interesting and something I definitely would have used running a previous API product. Best of luck!

Thank you! That is great to hear.

Thanks! People really seem to love your warehouse sync feature. We hope to help other companies offer similar products to their customers.