Hey Product Hunt,
I’m Adam, and alongside @hughess, @ud3sh, @charles_evidence, @archiewood, @csjh and @itsmebriand, we’re the team building Evidence.
We’re analysts first and foremost, and Evidence is the tool we always wished we’d had.
What is Evidence?
Evidence is an open source, code-based alternative to drag and drop BI tools.
Why code based?
Building reporting in code allows you to:
- Version control your BI layer, and use tools like GitHub to collaborate
- Add CI/CD processes to your reports, so that they don’t break unexpectedly
- Support text natively, using markdown to explain your charts and tables
- Control what content is displayed, using if statements, loops and page templates
- Deliver a better UX, with fine-grained control over viz, layout and report architecture
Why now?
Reporting is still one of the most important products of every data team, and the best data teams are increasingly working in code. Drag and drop reporting solutions are just a bad fit with this new workflow.
What’s new today?
Evidence core is already a thriving open source project used in production by teams ranging from startups to billion dollar enterprises.
Today We’re launching Evidence Cloud: our managed hosting and authentication service for Evidence projects. It makes it easy to deploy and securely share Evidence projects with your team.
We’re offering a special promo for Product Hunt: use the promo code FIRSTMONTHFREE when signing up to get a month of Evidence Cloud’s Team Plan for free ($500 value).
Thank you for your support and we look forward to hearing your feedback about Evidence!
@adam_mcaskill and team: awesome work 👏 I love the MDX style markdown + static site generation. This is the first I’ve been introduced to evidence and I’ve already created a project locally and am really loving it so far. I’ve needed an easier way to quickly build and publish reports 🙌 I’m very glad I saw your launch today.
@myobie amazing, thank you! We found that mdx style really approachable to most people, and static outputs makes it easy to deploy in all sorts of situations. Glad you’re enjoying it!
This is my favorite project over the past year or so, been very happy using it for mdsinabox.com! Building an end to end "data visualization platform" has only been possible because of Evidence as the display layer with "BI as code." The MDX affordances + beautiful default visualizations (seriously, they look so great) are excellent too.
I've been using Evidence for a while now, and am blown away. This is a game changer for Data teams. Please, please give it a try - especially if you do business-facing data analytics and are tired of the same-old same-old. On top of all this, the team is great, nice, and responsive. Love it!
@alighned79 Thanks! @hughess put a lot of hours into the charting library, and we’ve had a tonne of really useful input from our open source community.
Congratulations on the launch! This looks really solid, SQL + markdown is a really solid combo and having a degree of proper source control is a feature that's desperately missing from a lot of competing tools, very nice work.
@tom_fl0 thank you! For sure - proper source control and CI/CD is one of the biggest points of difference. Fewer “fire drills” fewer broken dashboards. More trust from your stakeholders.
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