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alexliu518··on Capalyze – Natural language data analysis
Thank you for your support
alexliu518··on Capalyze – Natural language data analysis
Thank you very much for your support. If you have any questions, please feel free to give us feedback.
alexliu518··on Capalyze – Natural language data analysis
Two main aspects: 1. How to handle the data related to the target problem; 2. Choosing suitable charts to present this data. #1. By leveraging the increasingly powerful coding capabilities of LLMs, we can appropriately process raw data to obtain a dataset that closely aligns with our goals; #2. We expanded echart and utilized its rich chart types already supported, along with the Univer SDK from the Univer team, ultimately creating tables.
alexliu518··on Capalyze – Natural language data analysis
Very critical question. Excel is indeed more complex. Before analysis, Capalyze first preprocesses the data, which is crucial. We have designed a set of preprocessing algorithms that essentially focus on how to better identify the data suitable for analysis in Excel and clean and repair it. This process also leverages LLMs, as we found that LLMs perform quite well in recognizing table structures.
alexliu518··on Capalyze – Natural language data analysis
Hey HN,

I’m one of the developers behind https://capalyze.ai, an AI-powered tool that helps small teams analyze their data using natural language — no code, no templates.

The idea came from conversations with indie e-commerce sellers and creators who had _tons_ of data (spreadsheets, reviews, exports from marketplaces) but lacked the time or tooling to make sense of it.

With Capalyze, you can:

1. Ask questions like _"What are the most common complaints in these reviews?"

2. Paste or upload product data and get a summary of pricing trends

3. Generate charts, compare columns, or extract keywords — just by asking

It works best with your own datasets right now (CSV, Excel, etc.). Web scraping isn’t live yet— we’re actively building it, and you can follow our updates if that’s important to you.

We’ve tested it with early users in e-commerce, real estate, and content — and the feedback has been super helpful. One user called it “ChatGPT with a purpose.”

We’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community:

1. Is the interface intuitive?

2. Are the responses helpful and explainable?

3. What would make this more useful for you?

Here’s the link: https://capalyze.ai Happy to answer questions and chat more about how we built it (multi-model backend with OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, plus a simple orchestration layer).

Thanks!

alexliu518··on Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands
Very good application, but it seems that the video cannot be played after uploading
alexliu518··on Show HN: Trayce – Network tab for Docker containers
Very useful project, keep it up
alexliu518··on Show HN: Bob-editor – create and edit ASCII art graphically
Very interesting project, how to copy and save ascii characters
alexliu518··on Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?
I understand your idea, but if you are sure that a software is excellent, then paying for it is a good habit.
alexliu518··on Show HN: Convert HTML DOM to semantic markdown for use in LLMs
Converting web pages to Markdown is a common requirement. I have found that turndown does a good job, but it cannot meet the needs of all dynamic web page content. As far as I know, if you need to process dynamic web pages, you need targeted adaptation, such as Google extensions such as Web2Markdown.
alexliu518··on Show HN: Word Slicer
Very comfortable and simple UI
alexliu518··on Show HN: 40M embeddings to find who knows what on HN
Interesting
alexliu518··on Show HN: Magic Color Picker
Great work! Keep it up!
alexliu518··on Show HN: We made a platform that allows you to build UI kits in days not months
I think it is a very worthwhile project, thank you for your work
alexliu518··on Show HN: TinkerBird – A Chrome-native vector database
Cool! Keep it up!
alexliu518··on Show HN: Boards – Automate document-heavy tasks
ok
alexliu518··on Show HN: I made a website to learn and practice mental math
Cool
alexliu518··on Show HN: TargetJ – New JavaScript framework that can animate anything
Thanks for sharing TargetJ! It’s intriguing how it can animate anything. Could you share how it simplifies animation creation and its performance in handling complex scenes?
alexliu518··on Show HN: Samsar.one – video editor with generative image, music, and speech
This looks fantastic! What AI models do you use?
alexliu518··on Show HN: I scraped 3.2B TikTok profiles and 9B posts to build this search engine
This is awesome! Quick questions:

How do you handle the massive data scale and keep it all up-to-date? Have you faced any ethical challenges with scraping so much public data?

alexliu518··on Building and scaling Notion's data lake
Thank you for the clarification! It's great to hear more about the efficient data management practices at Notion. Your team's innovative use of the data lake to streamline the reindexing process while ensuring user data privacy is impressive. Keep up the excellent work!
alexliu518··on Show HN: Minigrad – a small neural network lib in Golang
Interesting, keep it up!
alexliu518··on Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator
cool
alexliu518··on Show HN: Dropbase AI – A Prompt-Based Python Web App Builder
This looks fantastic! Excited to try Dropbase for building quick, customizable web apps with ease.
alexliu518··on Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement
Thank you for your advice and guidance. I have learned a lot.
alexliu518··on Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement
Very direct and efficient processing method
alexliu518··on Ask HN: Best resources for learning desktop software development?
Thank you for your recommendation
alexliu518··on Ask HN: Best resources for learning desktop software development?
Flutter is indeed a very good development framework. I heard that many people use it to develop mobile apps. I will try it on the desktop.
alexliu518··on Ask HN: Best resources for learning desktop software development?
Your descriptions are very inspiring to me, thank you. I am a front-end development engineer with 4 years of experience and I don't know much about desktop development. I have heard of Electron, but I understand that its package size and performance are difficult to control, so I am looking for other solutions and best practices, and want to try more possibilities.
alexliu518··on Ask HN: What are the most underrated skills in tech?
I strongly support your idea, although few people do this now. This is the spirit that contemporary programmers lack.
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