MinusX is a chrome extension that adds a sidechat to your analytics apps like Jupyter and Metabase. Given an instruction, our agent operates the tool - by clicking and typing - to analyze data and answer queries.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
We're @nuwandavek , @ppsreejith and @arpit_tarang , and we're building MinusX, an AI Data Scientist for Jupyter and Metabase. MinusX is a Chrome extension (https://minusx.ai/chrome-extension) that adds an AI sidechat to your analytics apps. Given an instruction, our agent operates your app (by clicking and typing, just like you would) to analyze data and answer queries. Broadly, you can do 3 types of things:
- 🔮 Ask for hypotheses and explore data
- 🛠️ Extend and modify existing notebooks/dashboards
- 🔍 Select a region and ask questions about it
🤕 Why are we building this?
Developers just want answers. Product managers just want answers. Analysts want 10 clones of themselves. This is a sentiment we hear over and over. So what’re the options do people have?
1. Continue business as usual with 1000s of back and forths - 🥲 painful
2. Move to a new fancy AI analytics tool (means convincing all colleagues to also move to the new tool, abandoning all existing workflows) - 🥲 extra painful
3. Go to chatGPT which has no real context of your data, your past, your workflow and admonish it till it gives something passable - 🥲 less painful, but sad
If this sounds like you, you’ll love MinusX! 🚀🚀🚀
An AI Data Scientist is a Scientist, not yet-another-new-fancy tool. [🧑🔬 >>> 🛠️]
MinusX just works, where you already are! It uses the full context of your data, current workflows, and is deeply integrated into both Jupyter and Metabase. It "retrofits" analytics software with intelligence, something LLMs have begun to unlock. We also get a kick out of the fact that we use the same APIs humans use (clicking and typing), so we don’t really need "permission" from any analytics app 👀
The product is currently free to use. We’re working on supporting local models and bring-your-own-keys soon! We'd be super stoked for you to try out MinusX! You can find the extension here: https://minusx.ai/chrome-extension. We've also created a playground with data, for both Jupyter and Metabase, so once the extension is installed you can take it for a spin: https://minusx.ai/playground
We'd love to hear what you think about the idea, and anything else you'd like to share! Suggestions on which tools to support next are most welcome 🙏
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Awesome platform! Apart from Metabase, will you be supporting more BI tools along the way? Can't help thinking of Tableau, Power BI, Google Data Studio (not too relevant)
@charlestehio Yep! We're currently exploring the tools mentioned in our home page (Grafana, Colab, Google Sheets, etc) but do tell us which tool you'd like us to add next at https://minusx.ai/tool-request
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Love how simple the tool is and is targeting at some of the most widely adopted data tools like Metabase! I used to go back and forth between Metabase and ChatGPT all the time as I'm not super technical but need help with charts and data pull.
Congrats on the launch @nuwandavek and team!
This seems like a good tool for simplifying data analysis within existing workflows. Happy to see AI seamlessly integrated into Jupyter and Metabase, making data exploration and hypothesis testing so much more efficient. Congrats on the launch :)
@kavyaaatripathi Yes, it is somewhat similar, practically. But our approach allows for some really powerful experiences. Firstly, MinusX is the same interface that works on all your analytics apps. Your workflows across your analytics stack will remain the same.
Secondly, we’re working on cross tool support, which powerBI has no incentive of building. For example, you can import context for the project you’re analyzing from your google docs, or from an existing query on tableau or even from your email! You can analyze data in jupyter and import that into a presentation or a dashboard.
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@nuwandavek sounds amazing!
Surely going to give it a try.
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MinusX sounds like a great addition for anyone working with Jupyter or Metabase. The idea of an AI Data Scientist that works within your current tools is super cool.
@oliviajanemitchell Yeah! We think the bottleneck really is intelligence and not the limitations of the tool themselves. So current tools should be able to go really far when augmented with MinusX!
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Wop..really nice to see MinusX embedding AI directly into tools.
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