Ask HN: Looking for a cheap hosted BI tool like Metabase for my startup
What's the tool you recommend for this? I need something preferably free since my volume is so tiny since we're just starting out.
What's the tool you recommend for this? I need something preferably free since my volume is so tiny since we're just starting out.
I'd like to know why Metabase wasn't fitting your use case if you don't mind.
I'd recommend Metabase, we've used it for years with no issue. Very simple to use and business users can easily get the hang of it and build and filter their own reports.
While I'm at it, here's a killer Metabase feature that I haven't seen in other reporting tools I've used:
While you can save a report to folders and have pretty URLs (your.domain.com/sales-report), whenever you build a report or change an existing report, it gets its own unique URL. (It's long and ugly, but I don't mind.)
Here's how I use it and why it's cool:
- If you're building a report and make a mistake or want to try something else, the back button actually works!
- If you have an existing report (your.domain.com/sales-report) and just need to filter it quickly to (like show all sales above $10K closed by Sam this year) and send it to someone else for some quick troubleshooting, you just filter the base report and grab the unique URL and send it around! No need to save it to a folder.
- I have a library of SQL queries for specific things and I can quickly pop that into Metabase (rather than using the report builder) and send the URL to someone. Again, just not having to go through the motions of saving and naming everything that may only be short-lived is nice.
- Just generally love not having to save every little iteration or filtered version of a report as I often just need it for some quick troubleshooting or discussion. No need to have a junk folder of reports with stuff like ("Sam deals over $10K 2024").
Hopefully I'm explaining this clearly!
Apache Superset or plotly dash if you're okay with python
If you use javascript in your startup, use Observable: https://observablehq.com
Power BI from Microsoft is 10 EUR per month per user for hosted which is quite cheap I would say?
What are top 2 features you need that are not good enough or too expensive for you in Metabase?
You can also just use google sheets if the size of your data allows it.
I love Looker Studio, that’s free with Google Cloud.
What's wrong with Metabase?
BI - business inteligence
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