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Interesting product, but $30 per user per month just seem like too much. I don't have that pain though, is it justifiable? Is it worth for a data science team with 5+ people pay over 150 dollars a month for this? I am asking out of curiosity.

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If a 5 person data science team gets any value of out this -- even if it only prevents frustration and literally doesn't save any time -- it's worth it. At a minimum, that team is costing $50k/month, so in theory they should be driving much more than that in value... $150/mo to support that much value is nothing.

Redash offer this as a feature[1]. Their product starts at $49 per month for unlimited users with up to three data sources from a wide range[2], not just Postgres.

I think the Google Sheets export is very valuable, it opens up data to non-developer analysts and general business users. But I also can't see how this product is competitive at this price with only this functionality.

[1] https://redash.io/help/user-guide/integrations-and-api/how-t...

[2] https://redash.io/integrations/

Thanks. We think it justifies the time saving of doing manual exports and keeping Sheets connected to the database - this way data can be easily refreshed by re-running the query. We looked around similar tools and found pricing to be fairly competitive

I think its competitive. Many businesses run off of spreadsheets, and armies of folks enter data into them manually or with great integration pain. Self-serve business data in sheet form is pretty much the ideal UX for something on the order of millions of business knowledge workers. $30/mo is a pittance for that superpower.

Its certainly more affordable than Tableau and other traditional BI tools.

The userbase is probably not well represented on HN...

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