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There used to be a product called Statsbot which was a friendly UI built on top of Cube.js. They shuttered the service a few years back and we're still struggling to find an alternative that is as simple to use by anyone in the company and easy to set up. We've gone through all the usual BI suspects and nothing comes close. I'd love to find the time to rebuild this.

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Oh, it's interesting to meet a Statsbot user in the wild! Indeed, Cube was spun off Statsbot and became the foundation on which others can build products like the one mentioned in the sibling comment: Delphi.

Cube acts as the semantic layer, providing the access to data sources and centralizing the data model. Delphi acts as the UI for the end user, enabling them to ask questions in natural language. I've blogged about Cube and Delphi here: https://cube.dev/blog/conversational-interface-for-semantic-.... Also, here's a demo video on YouTube I've recorded recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FotEaaf20gY

You might take a look at Delphi (https://www.delphihq.com/) which is built on top of semantic layers and recently integrated with Cube.

I've never used Statsbot but you can easily integrate cube with retool. They even have a guide for it, it's the first result on google for cube + retool.

Also worth mentioning retool it's really cheap compared to "delphi" that I'm seeing shared in other comments.

Here's the Retool guide (https://cube.dev/blog/building-an-internal-dashboard-with-re...) but I don't think Retool should be compared to Delphi; one is a low-code tool builder; the other one is a conversational interface for the semantic layer. Both are great for their purposes, both can be used with Cube, even at the same time :-)

Fair enough, I don't know anything about Delphi except its price tag. Given OPs request for a friendly UI to sit on top of cube I thought retool could fit well that use case. And thanks for sharing the guide, I use and love Cube but I didn't want to pass as a shill :)

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