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by edmundsauto 749 days ago
I think a lot of people want something like this. Especially as more non technical people are adding business analysts to their jd.

I’ve tried to teach SQL to PMs, bug triage specialists, etc. even a couple of days is too much time for them to learn something not critical or core to their job. Their alternative is to bug data teams with adhoc requests, which data people hate.

A tool like this would probably save 15% of a data teams time, and reduce the worst part of their job. At companies with hundreds, or even thousands, of data folks - that’s massive

And the users are smart people. They can read SQL to see if it looks like the right filters are applied. The “accuracy” issue exists but for certain use cases, it’s honestly not the biggest concern.

Not sure why the tone in this thread is so negative. To the founders, thank you!

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we've encountered a lot of instances when people know SQL but just want a first draft of SQL to expedite the process. we see this a lot from data analysts too.