[jesselawson]

Hi Dan, I'm Jesse. I work in the public sector and have seen the pains of trying to get regular folk to learn even basic SOQL for Salesforce, let alone the struggles of folks trying to change the way they think to write a SQL query.

I believe there's a huge market for bridging the power of a structured query language with non-"techy" folks, much like how we see no-code solutions popular among folks who would have (self-admittedly) never been able to figure out how to wire up two RESTful APIs.

My approach to solving this in the past was to create a custom syntax with a transpiler that took a type of English language grammar and converted it into workable SQL. Where I branched from your intention was actually for my book on data science in higher education -- I wanted to have a language where a researcher could say something like this:

"Who is more likely to drop: a student with circumstance_a or a student with circumstance_b?"

That's a rough approximation, but I think you can see what I am talking about.

Are you looking at the text-to-speech space for people to babble at their computers? Or are you looking for some kind of GUI system where people can plug things together? Or are you looking for a grammar (like my approach)? Would love to chat.

[usehackernews]

Hi Jesse - It sounds as though we are aligned with the existing problem, and the approach. Very interested to talk more. Mind shooting me an email? (My email is listed above in the parent comment)