David Smith

I’ve been working with MongoDB for years, and one problem always frustrated me: even simple questions required digging through syntax, roles, pipelines, connection strings, and endless tab hopping. So I built a small Python script to visualize my own production data. That script kept growing— first into a local dashboard, then into an NLP layer to write queries for me, then into a full UI. That...

I built Hubble because I struggled with understanding my own MongoDB data without writing queries or juggling tools. Curious to hear from other devs: What does your current workflow look like? GUI tools? Compass? CLI? Aggregation pipelines? What’s the one thing you wish existed? I'd love your thoughts — they’ll directly shape Hubble’s roadmap.

Hey everyone 👋 I’m David — engineer, storyteller, and the founder behind David Labs. A bit about me: 🔹 I’ve spent the last few years building across healthcare, AI, cloud, and identity From migrating legacy hospital systems, to parsing HL7 messages, to architecting multi-cloud deployments — I’ve lived most of my career in messy, high-stakes systems where reliability isn’t optional. 🔹 I’m...

Hey folks 👋 I'm David, founder of David Labs. For the past few months we've been building a strange little idea: **What if money apps stopped preaching… and simply let you practice money first?** So today we’re launching Solidus — a financial simulation engine. Not a budgeting app. Not a portfolio tracker. Not a financial advisor. Just a sandbox where you can understand your impulses, patterns,...

....spendings. Hey folks, I just launched something I’ve been building for the last few months, and I wanted to share it with the community. 💡 What is Solidus? Solidus is a personal financial simulator — not an investment tool, not a budgeting app, but a sandbox where you can practice making financial decisions without real-world risk. It’s designed for people like us who: overspend sometimes...