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Show HN: Bin - AI business intelligence analyst that turns data into dashboards

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Bin is an AI business intelligence analyst that turns data into dashboards. Our goal is to make creating dashboards simpler to do than no-code alternatives like PowerBI and Tableau while preserving the powerful customization abilities of raw SQL and Python.

Here’s a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsh8M3hIjDA.

Customers from our previous product wanted custom dashboards but didn’t want to spend on technical staff to build them. They wanted customizability of the dashboard yet simplicity of the building experience.

So, we studied the approaches of Devin, Claude Artifacts, and v0 and wanted a version that was purpose built for making dashboards and admin pages to solve this problem. This way anyone could spin up highly custom dashboards fast without knowing PowerBI, Tableau, Python, or SQL.

The interface is similar to Cursor, where you attach database context and then prompt Bin on a side chat to make visual components (charts, cards, graphs). You can then click to add these components onto your panel.

On the backend, Bin spins up the components in React code and data queries in Python + SQL code in one go. We’ve wired up Bin with tool calls so that it can make the query given the schema and table context of your selected database, execute the query, and then make the component with the query key passed into our useQuery function. We make all of this code for the component and query viewable and editable on the platform.

Once components are added, you can then drag and drop, resize, and reorganize them on the panel layout. The dashboard will self-update over time as more data enters your database (the queries are re-executed with every refresh). After finalizing, you can deploy the dashboard or embed it onto your other internal tools.

You can try Bin today on a test database for free at https://bi.new. Please do let us know what you think – we’re open to feedback and suggestions as we continue to improve Bin.

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AI focused new BI products are a wash, your focus should be a new BI product with maybe an AI integration (Not the other way around), or an AI integration to an existing BI product. The BI tool Kanaries / PyGWalker is a good example of where python based BI tooling should be going, replacing big corp BI tools to get CDO/CIO's to go the direction of abandoning Tableau/PBI for lower infra and platfrom cost, open source tooling & integration.

I am not saying its a bad idea, but your net is wide, very wide, you are trying to conquer two separate area. Both areas need innovation in the data space, but I think the AI rush is dieing down. Claude and GPT offer good support for PowerBI and Tableau, but there are no extension integrations. This is where BI AI should be, AI's integrated into Tableau workbooks editing the core XML of the workbooks, offering translation tooling to convert Prep to Alteryx, Tableau to PBI...etc.

It's also hard sell if your core platform doesn't cover SSO, Encryption, DB integrations, Self Deployment, RBAC's, PenTest, Corps looks for these things immediately, and BI tools are purely a Corp thing not a Consumer thing.

That said its a cool idea and implementation.

Cool work!

I've been working on a similar product. Users can select between Streamlit/Shiny: https://editor.ploomber.io/ - so not necessarily for BI (although you can use it for that), but more broadly focused on data apps.

Hello fellow builder. I think the BI space is definitely ripe for change and I do wish more products had better dashboards for users!

That being said, embedded analytics is a tough space, because established BI tools (PowerBI, etc.) can be used and are preferred by data teams, or software engineers just fiddle directly with things like plotly or highcharts.

Similarly by now "AI Analytics" is getting crowded: https://github.com/Snowboard-Software/awesome-ai-analytics

Looking forward to watching your journey and ideas!

FYI, we're building https://getdot.ai

Congrats on the launch. We are also doing something similar and will be here for a long term.

Othor AI - https://othor.ai/

Github - https://github.com/othorai/othor.ai

Congrats on launch. I watched the demo video, the UI looks nice. Is it possible to write raw Python or SQL to query data? Do you have automatic interval refresh of data? What databases do you support?

Honestly my largest feedback is what does it integrate with? Present this on the homepage instantly. The documentation doesn't cover it, and clicking "+ database" has me sign up. I'm not going to sign up unless I can do what I need to do and I don't know if I can if I don't know how the dataset is configured or what it can pull / be streamed from.

This is super cool -- I wonder if the next step in this would be to suggest specific dashboards to monitor based on the data that a company collects.

This sounds like what ServiceNow and Salesforce would be building if their best hackers ran the show.

Very hard problem but I hope it works out! This is cool.

bin is probably a bad name since its name of a directory in linux. how about bintel ?

Also in UK and AU English (and likely others) it’s the word for trashcan.

Pray your office is free of folks who think bin puns are funny & original.

1/ Click on example in check box

2/ Click the send button

3/ Redirects to login / sign up dialog

4/ forced to switch to email

5/ log in to password manager

6/ do 2FA

7/ enter verification code

8/ redirects to dashboard

9/ example clicked never shows up

No. Just no.

Seems par for the course nowadays

Hackers, just let us try your product immediately

Maybe if you are interested you can find more alternatives at https://toolhunt.eu. Let me know if you found any.

How do you add new entries?

We curate this ourselves.

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