Not excited about the “less ambitious project”, but still better than being something that can’t be put in front of people. Glad you found Redash useful. :-)
I'm not 100% sure if this is a fit for your needs, but Redash[1] (open source, but there is a hosted version too) you can query spreadsheets and APIs (within limits).
Our JSON data source is not merged yet [2], although available already on the hosted version.
We (Redash) had public AMIs for AWS and GCP for a long time now. But recently started the process of creating a proper marketplace listing with them and DigitalOcean. Needless to say that we're still working on the AWS and GCP listing, while the DigitalOcean one is already live. As with everything, they created a simple and nice experience for the vendors.
We (Redash) have a similar setup (Docker Compose based) and we used Packer to build the DigitalOcean image. Our setup is public on GitHub, in case you want to copy:
> Sorry if my response sounded like a snarky comment or a rant.
Actually it didn't. All good :)
> Now that I know redash fits my needs, I will spend the time needed to read the docker compose file and trace those steps and assemble the pieces necessary to run redash directly on my Linux server without Docker.
Glad to hear it fits! Note that if all you need is Postgres support, don't bother with installing requirements_all_ds.txt and you can skip some of the system packages we install.
Redash [1] is a BI tool for people who <3 SQL. We let you connect to your database(s), query your data, visualize and share it (dashboards, API, etc). Redash is fully open source [2] with a SaaS offering.
We're looking for our first Customer Success Manager. As a Customer Success Manager your focus is creating and maintaining friendly relationships with our customers around the globe, maintain our knowledge base and write content.
Due to the nature of our product we're looking both for someone with strong communications skills but also some technical understanding. You don't have to be an engineer, but you do need to be able to write some SQL and understand what's the difference between MongoDB and MySQL.
You don't have to come with all the knowledge, but you need to be able to learn.
Redash is a BI tool for people who <3 SQL. We let you connect to your database(s), query your data, visualize and share it (dashboards, API, etc). Redash is fully open source [2] with a SaaS offering.
We're looking for our first Customer Success Manager. As a Customer Success Manager your focus is creating and maintaining friendly relationships with our customers around the globe, maintain our knowledge base and write content.
Due to the nature of our product we're looking both for someone with strong communications skills but also some technical understanding. You don't have to be an engineer, but you do need to be able to write some SQL and understand what's the difference between MongoDB and MySQL.
You don't have to come with all the knowledge, but you need to be able to learn.
It's a bit not well defined, but I didn't want to miss the "Who is hiring" thread. If it seems like this might be for you -- just email me.
Redash is a BI tool for people who <3 SQL. We let you connect to your database(s), query your data, visualize and share it (dashboards, API, etc). Redash is fully open source [2] with a SaaS offering.
We're looking for someone to redesign the application. The goal is to create a style guide we can apply to the application. Preferably someone who is a "full stack" designer, i.e. can do both the design and also write CSS. Collaboration will be via GitHub and all the work will be open source. Great opportunity to explore how design/UX work in an open source project can be done.
This is a scoped project (paid of course), although we would love the person who takes this to be able to help us from time to time when we add new UI or when UX questions arise. Maybe in the future this can become a full time position.
Most people don't care about the source code, but we have a huge link to the setup guide [1] (and there is a link to GitHub in the footer).
Also I'm not sure where you bring the "but it doesn't receive bug fixes" statement from? We have a documented upgrade process [2] for the images you create using our documented setup guide.
Just to make sure someone doesn't get the wrong impressions from your comment:
Redash is 99% open source (and I'm going to close this gap this month[1]), mature and actively maintained. The friendliness is subjective, but we're not trying to please everyone :-)
[1] Sometimes it's easier to prototype new things in the SaaS version, but everything reaches open source eventually. There is practically one feature that wasn't open sourced until now, and I'm going to add it to the open source version now.
One correction about Redash: Redash is open source and you can host it yourself too, in case you have an issue trusting a 3rd party with your data.
The proxy approach is something I thought about several times, but I am aiming at providing a collaborative tool, where it's easy to share the results and work with others. Depending on a proxy running on a user machine breaks this.
But having said that, I'm sure there are many whose needs Franchise will fit very well. So kudos on launching a great tool! :)
Why not? You can assign a domain to S3 buckets. It can be just as pretty as it is today. The only difference is if he serves them directly from S3, the domain will be different from the creation API.
But considering the additional features he's planning on adding, he will probably need to proxy S3 anyway, so not sure if it's worth it in this case.
But for something of the scope of the current API, S3 is the perfect solution.