Explo - Explore and analyze data without SQL or Excel
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Explore and analyze data without writing a line of code or crashing Excel. Upload a CSV or connect your database to harness the power of SQL in a point-and-click interface.
Hey Product Hunt 👋!
This is Andrew, Jonah, Rohan, and Gary and we’re the founders of Explo!
As a consultant, Andrew frequently faced challenges pulling data, writing nested SQL queries, and joining large tables; and as an investment banking analyst, Jonah became painfully numb to Excel crashing due to data scale limitations. Even Rohan, as a software engineer, spent lots of time wrangling with huge, unwieldy SQL queries in Mode while trying to pull data.
With this all in mind, we built Explo. Our goal is to allow less-technical people to independently work with data at scale and make it less painful for technical people to quickly explore and analyze data. So far we built our initial product, launched a private beta, and are iterating to provide the most intuitive, accessible data experience we can.
Here’s how some of our first customers are using Explo:
* Startup founders use Explo to stitch together marketing data to calculate customer acquisition costs.
* Operations analysts at a DTC company analyze patterns in customer returns.
* Customer success reps use Explo to quickly answer nuanced statistics about their product’s data during sales calls.
We would love to get your feedback and so we’re offering a Product Hunt deal: if you hop on a short feedback call every-other-week, we will continue to extend the free trial! This will help us stay in touch with the people using it and constantly improve.
We have a small team that moves quickly so let us know what additional features you want and how you plan to use Explo!
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Hi @garymlin!
I really loved the idea and it definitely fills a huge gap that exist in this industry!
Really looking forward to it's application, branding is dope!
Also, would love to feature it on my Instagram handle and would love to have on my Business Podcast as guest which will expose it to Indian masses!
Looking forward to your reply!
Please drop in your email address if interested!
Thanks
Can't recommend the Explo product enough. As a product manager it's saved me countless hours and much frustration when wrangling with my startup's data.
Oh dope this looks super close to a tool we’re looking for, great UI!
We have giant CSV files that slow down my Mac when opening, is there a file limit that Explo can deal with?
@markstevenwai Thanks for the feedback and question Mark!
Your large CSVs won't be a problem :) Explo was actually born out of the exact problem you are describing - we were tired of crashing Excel with huge CSVs. With Explo, you can upload a CSV of any size and utilize our powerful compute backend to manipulate your data quickly!
Really neat. Would you consider this a No-Code tool? Is that a product category that you're actively trying to fit into or something you're intentionally distancing this product from? If so, why? Also, I'd love to hear about your strategy for educating and inspiring potential users about the possibilities this tool offers through content marketing or another approach.
@philip_kiely Hi Philip, great question. Explo is a No-Code tool that anyone can use!
Currently we are scheduling one-on-one onboarding calls with each of our users. This way we help identify and suggest potential workflows and use cases for Explo. We're also looking into other strategies or educating our users so we're open to any suggestions!
The key to this content marketing strategy is that it's about getting potential users to acknowledge problems that they're facing and understand that they are now capable of solving those problems themselves thanks to your tools. It's first about inspiring, then educating.
@_andrewchen onboarding calls definitely makes sense for improving user outcomes. For attracting users, one approach that can work in the No Code space is investing in high-quality educational content on related topics and for keywords that resonate with your audience. The general title per post is [how to solve PROBLEM_COMMON_TO_POTENTIAL_USERS]. The solution may or may not include your product but either way it builds authority in your market. I'd say Zapier is a great example in terms of doing this well (https://zapier.com/blog/).
@mathew_pregasen Thank you! I think you'll see a substantial improvement. Our point-and-click interface is very fast and easy to use; even for more complex operations 😎
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Looks like a great tool for digging at data to answer questions!
Is there any support for exporting the datasets at the end of the funnel? A problem I’ve ran into is integrating data transformation pipelines from various sources into a single data warehouse. It’d be useful if there was an adapter to connect to an external AWS S3 bucket.
@yoimnik Great question.
If we are sitting on top of your data warehouse, we can write directly back to the warehouse. Additionally, datasets and intermediary steps in a flow can be downloaded as CSVs.
We were considering integrations with third party applications, like Tableau, but have not thought about integrations directly to S3. That's something we'll definitely add to our roadmap.
Love the idea. What if there could be built-in templates for the above use cases? As a startup founder, I might not be aware of how to compute CAC or the performance of my email campaigns pre-built templates can help me do that. All the best to @_andrewchen and his team.
@prateek_gupta8 Great suggestion! We're working on allowing users to create their own templates from flows as we speak. Will definitely include some pre-built templates for our users as well :)
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I run a recruiting business having recruited for companies like Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flipkart etc. This product could really help my firm make sense of all the google sheets and excel spreadsheets we have accumulated over the years of talent acquisition. Wow, this product looks amazing! Does you product have a way of pulling data in from multiple excel sheets?
@sangeeta_narayan Really appreciate your kind words!
Totally. You can drag and drop in as many CSVs as you'd like into Explo. In the process of uploading these CSVs, you can select the type of delimiter (comma, tab, semicolon, etc) as well as the number of header rows in the file.
Looking forward to getting you onboarded! 💪
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Excited to learn more and see this in action! I work with local business owners, many of whom are pretty tech averse, most of whom don't have time to pour over customer/purchase data on their own, but I could see this being really useful to not only find insights in the aggregate but then passing on visualizations so they can quickly pick them up and adjust.
@simonamschwartz Thanks Simon for the context on a great use case! As you mentioned, we’ve found small businesses to be some of our most compelling initial users. The current data exploration and analysis tools were not made with them in mind.
We’ll be in touch to get you onboarded and trying out the tool :)
Really nice product, makes everything so much easier! Also left some points here on your landing page in relation to CTA's, hope it helps! - https://app.usebubbles.com/4349a...
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