React apps that work with your data warehouse [video]

Hi all, this is Burak, co-founder at Bruin. We built a new feature called data apps, and I recorded a quick video showing how I built the actual Scranton office of Dunder Mifflen from the show The Office to report on data warehouses.

For context: Bruin is a data platform that does ETL + BI. We do a lot of things open-source, and recently we launched Dashboard-as-Code: https://github.com/bruin-data/dac

The idea behind DaC was that using AI agents would require a more code-driven approach. That turned out to be directionally right, however it fell short in terms of unlocking even more value as people became more ambitious.

That's why we built data apps: - These are React apps that connect to your database / data warehouse - They work with all kinds of databases + external APIs - They can make external requests in a secure way without the credentials being embedded into the app itself.

This allows building all kinds of interesting and capable UIs with them. The dashboards you build become interactive internal apps that works with your data.

I have written a bit more about them here: https://getbruin.com/blog/announcing-data-apps

I would love to hear what you all think about generating more flexible dashboards on top of warehouses and what could be different. I wanted to offer this as a Show HN for folks to try out but it is currently a bit too expensive to run this publicly for us, that's why we are initially enabling access to the feature only to a select set of customers.

Let me know if you have any thoughts or what would you imagine seeing in this space.