A DuckDB-based metabase alternative

This is really nice, specially the pdf report generation.

I feel very moronic making a dashboard for any products now. Enterprise customers prefer you integrate into their ERPs anyway.

I think we lost the plot as an industry, I've always advocated for having a read only database connection to be available for your customers to make their own visualisations. This should've been the standard 10 years ago and it's case is only stronger in this age of LLMs.

We get so involved with our products we forget that our customers are humans too. Nobody wants another account to manage or remember. Analytics and alerts should be push based, configurable reports should get auto generated and sent to your inbox, alerts should be pushed via notifications or emails and customers should have an option to build their own dashboard with something like this.

Sane defaults make sense but location matters just as much.

In what extent this is a metabase alternative? I'm a heavy Metabase user and there's nothing to compare really in this product.

Metabase works great with DuckDB as well, thanks to metabase_duckdb_driver by MotherDuck.

This is so cool and also MPL licensed! Thanks!

As someone who used duckdb but not shaper, what is shaper used for? The readme is scarce on details.

interesting i am trying to build one too but rejected duckdb because of large size, i guess i will have to give in and use it at some point of time.

I wanted to love DuckDB but it was so crashy I had to give up.