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Metabase
Company blog · metabase.com/blog · on HN as tlrobinsondataprogramming
Metabase is the company blog at metabase.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2015, 134 different Hacker News readers have linked it 324 times, most often “Metabase – theopen source way to analyze data”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 8 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention Metabase as an open-source BI and dashboard tool that works with SQL databases, often as an alternative to Redash, tools like Tableau, or Superset. Its joins blog post is cited in debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Metabase grounds every answer in your semantic layer — your metrics and business logic — so you can inspect the query behind it.
Most-linked posts?
- Metabase – theopen source way to analyze data24 people · 27 mentions · first linked 2018-02-12
- Show HN: Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool13 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2015-10-21
- Open source for big data analysis13 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2017-10-10
- Metabase: Fast analytics with the friendly UX and integrated tooling12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2017-10-11
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-04-01
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-10-11
- /jobs/3 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2021-01-04
- /jobs3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-02-01
- Upgrade your Metabase installation IMMEDIATELY3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-07-21
- Metabase security incident post-mortem: July 20233 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-04
What Hacker News says?
I'm a big fan of Firebase and have seen a lot of projects get up and running very quickly and scale as well. However, I think there are an increasing amount of reasons why you want to have your data stored in a SQL database that you can access. The open source tooling being built around SQL (usually Postgres) as a standard is becoming better and better and it's going to be hard for Firebase to compete with all those…
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on “Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative”Submitted Best practices for writing SQL queries as a story · 424 points
HN discussionMetabase | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | REMOTE or ONSITE, FULL-TIME | http://www.metabase.com/ We’re a small well-funded team building beautiful open source business intelligence tools used by over 17,000 companies. React frontend, Clojure backend. Most of the work we do is open source. We’re looking to hire strong frontend, backend, generalist, and sales engineers. If you love open source, building beaut…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Show HN: Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool as a story · 287 points
HN discussionHasura by far, lets you point-and-click build your database and table relationships with a web dashboard and autogenerates a full GraphQL CRUD API with permissions you can configure and JWT/webhook auth baked-in. https://hasura.io/ I've been able to build in a weekend no-code what would've taken my team weeks or months to build by hand, even with something as productive as Rails. It automates the boring stuff and yo…
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?”Submitted Common data model mistakes made by startups as a story · 175 points
HN discussionMetabase | http://www.metabase.com/ | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | FULL-TIME We're a small team building open source business intelligence tools with a strong focus on user experience. Clojure backend, React + Redux + ES6 + etc frontend. Nearly all of the work we do is open source. We're looking to hire strong frontend, backend, or generalist engineers. Apply at http://www.metabase.com/jobs and feel free to contact…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Best Practices for BI Dashboards as a story · 61 points
HN discussionI just took a look at Metabase. https://www.metabase.com/demo Demo is nice.
Comment linking /demo
on “Apache Superset”Submitted Show HN: Open-source AI data generator (now hosted) as a story · 39 points
HN discussionYes, I am at a company using Metabase, but I have a decent amount of experience with Superset (albeit from many years ago). The reason we chose Metabase was that it had table joins, while Superset doesn't (unless it has added them since I used it). It also looks a bit sleeker. But I strongly prefer Superset; I found that with Metabase I had to turn a lot of things off to make it usable (Let me see "the_table" not "T…
Comment linking /docs/latest/installation-and-operation/serialization
on “Apache Superset”Submitted Show HN: Metabase Cloud as a story · 37 points
HN discussionMetabase | http://www.metabase.com/ | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, REMOTE | FULL-TIME We're a small team building open source business intelligence tools with a strong focus on user experience. Clojure backend, React + Redux + ES6 + etc frontend. Nearly all of the work we do is open source. We're looking to hire strong frontend, backend, or generalist engineers. If you love open source, building beautiful products, a…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted 330+ data teams share what's working (and what's not) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionhttps://www.metabase.com/features/metabot-ai
Comment linking /features/metabot-ai
on “Claude for Excel”Submitted Microservices considered harmful as a story · 18 points
HN discussionMetabase | http://www.metabase.com/ | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | FULL-TIME We're a small team building open source business intelligence tools with a strong focus on user experience. Clojure backend, React + Redux + ES6 + etc frontend. Nearly all of the work we do is open source. We're looking to hire strong frontend, backend, or generalist engineers. Apply at http://www.metabase.com/jobs/ and feel free to contact…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted I built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase as a story · 11 points
HN discussionMetabase | http://www.metabase.com/ | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | FULL-TIME We're a small team building open source business intelligence tools with a strong focus on user experience. Clojure backend, React + Redux + ES6 + etc frontend. Nearly all of the work we do is open source. We're looking to hire strong frontend, backend, or generalist engineers. Apply at http://www.metabase.com/jobs and feel free to contact…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security as a story · 8 points
HN discussionMetabase | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, REMOTE, FULL-TIME | http://www.metabase.com/ We're a small team building open source business intelligence tools with a strong focus on user experience. React + Redux + ES6 frontend, Clojure backend. Nearly all of the work we do is open source. We're looking to hire strong frontend, backend, or generalist engineers. If you love open source, building beautifu…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Show HN: We built an AI Agent to reproduce bugs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAlso see metabase: https://www.metabase.com/ We use this to embed some nice dashboards & run queries to great effect. A very powerful tool!
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on “Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization”Submitted How to ruin your life with data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMetabase | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, REMOTE, FULL-TIME | http://www.metabase.com/ We're a small team building open source business intelligence tools with a strong focus on user experience. React + Redux + ES6 frontend, Clojure backend. Nearly all of the work we do is open source. We're looking to hire strong frontend, backend, or generalist engineers. If you love open source, building beautifu…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Bus Factor of top GitHub projects as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMetabase | http://www.metabase.com/ | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, POSSIBLY REMOTE | FULL-TIME We're a small team building open source business intelligence tools with a strong focus on user experience. Clojure backend, React + Redux + ES6 + etc frontend. Most of the work we do is open source. We're looking to hire strong frontend or generalist engineers. If you love open source, building beautiful products, and work…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Metabase for Product Managers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMetabase | http://www.metabase.com/ | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | FULL-TIME We're a small team building open source business intelligence tools with a strong focus on user experience. Clojure backend, React + Redux + ES6 + etc frontend. Nearly all of the work we do is open source. We're looking to hire strong frontend, backend, or generalist engineers. Apply at http://www.metabase.com/jobs/ and feel free to contact…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Debugging SQL Queries as a story · 4 points
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