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Definite.app
Company blog · definite.app/blog · on HN as mritchie712databusiness
Definite.app is the company blog at definite.app, writing about data and business. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 141 times, most often “Adding concurrent read/write to DuckDB with Arrow Flight”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Few comments and no praise for the writing. The commenters are mostly describing the company's data tool, and the one linked post is 'Duck takes flight', about DuckDB.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
One platform for all your data — integrations, storage, dashboards, and AI agents, built in. Bring your data in once and get answers wherever your team works.
Most-linked posts?
- Adding concurrent read/write to DuckDB with Arrow Flight3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-28
- Show HN: Definite – Get a data stack (database, ETL, and BI) in one app2 people · 82 mentions · first linked 2023-05-05
- Snowflake to DuckDB: a 70% cheaper data warehouse2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-05-31
- Show HN: Query S3 with SQL and build dashboards2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-14
What Hacker News says?
we use eCharts for all the visualizations in https://www.definite.app/ . We evaluated pretty much every option and it's the best non-react option. Recharts honestly seems a little nicer if you're using React, but our frontend is in Vue.
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on “Apache ECharts”Submitted Understanding Smallpond and 3FS as a story · 262 points
HN discussionsimple example along these lines running on AWS (specifically paired with Iceberg): https://www.definite.app/blog/cloud-iceberg-duckdb-aws
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on “The DuckDB Local UI”Submitted Adding concurrent read/write to DuckDB with Arrow Flight as a story · 94 points
HN discussionA few features: * Built-in column level lineage (i.e. dump in 20 .sql files and crabwalk automatically figures out lineage) * Visualize the lineage * Clean handling of input / output (e.g. simply specify @config output and you can export results to parquet, csv, etc.) * Tests are not yet implemented, but crabwalk will have built-in support for tests (e.g. uniqueness, joins, etc.) we're using it in our product ( http…
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on “The DuckDB Local UI”Submitted 6 Powerful Databricks Alternatives for Data Lakes and Lakehouses as a story · 13 points
HN discussionwe specialize in "don't ask engineering for SQL" at https://www.definite.app/ . we spin up a data lake, load all your data and educate an agent on your data.
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on “Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck”Submitted Calculating MRR in SQL as a story · 11 points
HN discussionas a saas founder, I can confirm you are 100% correct about this and we'll be looking at IronCalc for https://www.definite.app/
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on “IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine”Submitted Snowflake to DuckDB: a 70% cheaper data warehouse as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHad a similar experience with Superset. A few others have mentioned Metabase and I agree it's better, but if you're looking for a different approach to data, check out Definite ( https://www.definite.app/ ). It's a "data stack in a box". A few things we're doing differently: 1. Built-in data warehouse - We spin up a duckdb database for you to load data to 2. 500+ connectors - You don't need to buy a separate ETL and…
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on “Apache Superset”Submitted Show HN: Talk to Your S3 Data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI used local LLMs via Ollama for generating H1's / marketing copy. 1. Create several different personas 2. Generate a ton of variation using a high temperature 3. Compare the variagtions head-to-head using the LLM to get a win / loss ratio The best ones can be quite good. 0 - https://www.definite.app/blog/overkillm
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on “Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?”Submitted Show HN: Definite – Get a data stack (database, ETL, and BI) in one app as a story · 4 points
HN discussionyeah, glad the hype around big data is dead. Not a lot of solid numbers in here, but this post covers it well[0]. We have duckdb embedded in our product[1] and it works perfectly well for billions of rows of a data without the hadoop overhead. 0 - https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/ 1 - https://www.definite.app/
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on “Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer”Submitted Cc-search: a skill to search Claude Code sessions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPretty sure we're in your target market. We [0] currently use GCP Filestore to host DuckDB. Here's the pricing and performance at 10 TiB. Can you give me an idea on the pricing and performance for Regatta? Service Tier: Zonal Location: us-central1 10 TiB instance at $0.35/TiB/hr Monthly cost: $2,560.00 Performance Estimate: Read IOPS: 92,000 Write IOPS: 26,000 Read Throughput: 2,600 MiB/s Write Throughput: 880 MiB/s…
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on “Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS”Submitted Duck Takes Flight: Streaming Data in DuckDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is awesome. Are you using tldraw? We're building a canvas for data / analytics at Definite[0]. Quick demo[1]. 0 - https://www.definite.app/ 1 - https://youtu.be/7FAJLc3k2Fo?si=kxu0QLd4WV_jDCHw&t=79
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on “Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas”Submitted Running a cheap (data) lakehouse on AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDid something similar (OverkiLLM) to this waayyyy back in August with open LLMs. I'm sure it'd work much better now: https://www.definite.app/blog/overkillm
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on “Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself”Submitted How to Query Apache Iceberg with DuckDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthe short answer: use a semantic layer. It's the cleanest way to give the right context and the best place to pull a human in the loop. A human can validate and create all important metrics (e.g. what does "monthly active users" really mean) then an LLM can use that metric definition whenever asked for MAU. With a semantic layer, you get the added benefit of writing queries in JSON instead of raw SQL. LLM's are much…
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on “Getting AI to write good SQL”Submitted Using DuckDB with Iceberg (with notebook example) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVery cool and very good timing. We just released better support to directly query S3[0] in Definite[1]. It's powered by duckdb. 0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrrCQnfKEig 1 - https://www.definite.app/
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on “Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol”Submitted We Migrated Our Data Warehouse from Snowflake to DuckDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I've built 12+ production AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations It's hard to make *one* good product (see startup failure rates). You couldn't make 12 (as seemingly a solo dev?) and you're surprised? we've been working on Definite[0] for 2 years with a small team and it only started getting really good in the past 6 months. 0 - data stack + AI agent: https://www.definite.app/
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on “The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production”Submitted Show HN: Query S3 with SQL and build dashboards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome things we've[0] learned on agent design: 1. If your agent needs to write a lot of code, it's really hard to beat Claude Code (cc) / Agent SDK. We've tried many approaches and frameworks over the past 2 years (e.g. PydanticAI), but using cc is the first that has felt magic. 2. Vendor lock-in is a risk, but the bigger risk is having an agent that is less capable then what a user gets out of chatgpt because you're…
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on “Agent design is still hard”Submitted Attribution tracking in 200 lines of JavaScript as a story · 2 points
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