[opportune]

>In Dataform, you build data pipelines in SQL, and our open source framework lets you seamlessly define dependencies, build incremental tables and reuse code across scripts.

Do you have any plan to add a visual interface? Unfortunately many analysts I work with are not really capable in SQL, or don't fully grok SQL features.

Also, how you plan on creating a moat against cloud companies putting the functionality of your project in their own proprietary solutions? For example, in Azure you can already use the Azure Data Lake stack of ADL Storage + Analytics + Data Factory to do what you are doing. These have IDE integrations, CICD integrationos, git integrations, are first class citizens in their cloud interfaces, etc.

[1ewish]

A UI for building data transformations (SQl queries) isn't on our immediate roadmap, but we have thought about it.

We are taking a bit of a bet here that the industry is moving towards SQL, and we see a growing interesting in analysts wanting to learn it.

Moat: Always a concern! Short term we think most of our unique value comes from the collaborative web development experience which is not OSS currently. Also staying platform agnostic is important to us. Longer term, we have some plans which without going into details mostly focuses on building value around a community and our SQL ecosystem, but not ready to get into details just yet.

[thundergolfer]

Check out the demo. There’s a significant UI available.