Nik Graf

SelectStar - Automated data catalog and discovery for modern data teams

Select Star (https://selectstar.com) is an automated data discovery platform that analyzes & documents your data. Select Star provides an easy-to-use data portal that everyone can use to find and understand data, saving data analysts hours of time every week.

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Shinji Kim
Hello Product Hunt! 👋 (& thanks for hunting us @nikgraf!) I’m Shinji, founder of Select Star. We’re super excited to launch on Product Hunt today! 🌟 Select Star was born from my love of working with data. Over the last 13 years, I’ve worked as a software engineer, data scientist, business analyst, product manager, and a data startup founder, working with structured and unstructured data across a variety of use cases. While having lots of data is great, I believe that to use it effectively you also need to understand the context around it. And building and maintaining that context is hard if you were to build a data dictionary manually. Select Star is designed to bring you and everyone on your team the full context of data in your organization. Select Star will tell you where the data came from, who’s using it, how they’re using it and what reports/dashboards are already created based on the data. And it does it automatically within the first hours of you connecting your data warehouse and/or BI tools. ✨ We’re excited to bring Select Star to General Availability today with a Free tier. Feel free to ask us anything! 🤗 Cheers 🙌 Shinji
Mihyun Chloe Kim
I'm definitely excited about this!!!
Shinji Kim
@mihyunk let's goooo 🙌
Kevin Zhang
@nikgraf @shinjikim Congratulations! 👏
Scott Belsky
@nikgraf @shinjikim crossing the starting line with momentum already! confident many data teams are going to love this...
Przemek Kuczyński
Hi Product Hunters! 👋 Przemek here, Eng Lead in Select Star for the last 18 months 🤩 I'm really excited to see all of you try out and give feedback for Select Star, a tool that is so much more than just a data catalog, that we just brought to General Availability 🤩 We have this great demo video by @shinjikim
and I strongly encourage you to watch it 👀
Zachary Smith
@shinjikim @przemek_kuczynski really awesome to see this live and in the wild! The problem and finding and understanding data sets is so common these days — we are “drowning in data” is something I hear a lot — but SelectStar is a platform that helps sift out what matters with practical tools that help you discover and manage your diverse set of data warehouses and use of those. Amazing stuff @shinjikim and team!!
Shinji Kim
@przemek_kuczynski @zsmithnyc Thanks so much Zac!! Excited to have you & Equinix team on board soon 🤗
Przemek Kuczyński
I want to give a shout out to the entire team at Select Star, who worked really hard and made this happen ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you for making working on this super fun too @shinjikim @dmytro_chumak1 @mihyunk @megan_elrod @lukasz_dunaj @piotr_podolski @jorgen_carlsen @krishna_sannasi @kubapy @sakina Walther
Brian Yun
Congratulations on the launch! 👏 Love the name, branding and the animation on logo. Can’t wait to try!
Shinji Kim
@brianyun Thanks Brian! Give it a try! 🌟
Luciano Cheng
Definitely recommend anyone who has to manage dashboard metrics definitely to try out Select Star.
Shinji Kim
@luciano_cheng Thanks for your support Luciano!!
Gabe Perez
Collective knowledge for the win! Really dig the concept of a centralized and automated data hub for a whole team. I’m curious if it integrates natively with any social apps or Google Sheets?
Przemek Kuczyński
Hey @gabe, I'm glad you like the concept! 🤩 - We do have support for Slack. You can search through the catalog directly in Slack as well as get notifications about changes in Select Star. - No direct support for Google Sheets but we do have a Client REST API you can use to integrate with any other tool you'd like - We also support sending webhook notifications for events in Select Star (for example we use it with Zapier) - We also support importing metadata into Select Star from CSV (e.g. descriptions that are missing in your data warehouse) We're also all ears 👂 and once we hear demand for a use case with direct integration for more social apps or Google Sheets we'll definitely go down that path. Would any of the solutions above help with your potential use case?
Joanna Dzieniszewska
Congratulations! Best team and amazing looking product! 👏💥🎉💥
Bob
This looks really interesting and could solve a lot of my issues with data discovery. How does this differ from other products on the market?
Shinji Kim
@bobawu Great question Bob! Our main differentiation is Fast time to value - you can see all your metadata, popularity, data lineage being generated within 24hours of connecting your DWH & BI today regardless of how big your DWH might be. If you use open source projects or other vendors this usually takes several weeks to get your data catalog up & running in production.
Erik Rasmussen
Killer name! Congrats on the launch!
Shinji Kim
@erik_rasmussen Thanks Erik! Glad you like the name.
Arpit Choudhury
Congrats on the launch and excited to see where this goes!
Shinji Kim
@irhymeth Thanks Arpit! 🙌
Zdeněk Hejnák
We love to use SelectStar - it helps us to manage lineage between our tables in BigQuery and Tableau dashboards. Also helpful with documentation and data source sharing and governance.
Shinji Kim
@zdenek_hejnak It's been awesome working with you Zdenek! 🙌
Mihyun Chloe Kim
❤️
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Mihyun Chloe Kim
@tomasz_jeschke we support Snowflake, mode, dbt, postgres and more! Give it a try!
Shinji Kim
@tomasz_jeschke All integrations are listed here: https://docs.selectstar.com/inte...
Paulina Wójciak
Congratulations team! Awesome looking product. Can’t wait to try it out!
Shinji Kim
@paula_dun Thanks Paulina! 🙌
Derek Parham
Really huge problem, especially as companies gather more and more data and have more internal folks consume it. Excited to try, congrats on the launch!!
Przemek Kuczyński
@derek_parham1 Thank you for the support 🙌🙌🙌
Paul Butler
Oh man, I've definitely felt this pain! Looking forward to checking it out, congrats on the launch.
Przemek Kuczyński
Thank you @paul_butler1! Any feedback is welcome 📝
Mir Riad
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Aashni Shah
Congrats on the launch @shinjikim and team! This is such an awesome product - can't wait to test it out with what we're building
Shinji Kim
@aashnisshah Thanks Aashni! 💕
Keeyong Han
Anyone in the data domain would understand how crazy data discovery issues can be. Select Start is an intelligent data discovery platform that helps you understand your data. If your organization is experiencing the problem, I encourage you to try out. Onboarding is painless!
Shinji Kim
@keeyong_han Thank you Keeyong 🙌
Greg Ratner
Huge pain point - very excited that this is getting solved in such an elegant way! Big fan of the team and the approach 👏 👏 👏
Shinji Kim
@gregratner Thank you Greg! 😻 Excited to have your support