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Preset Blog
Company blog · preset.io/blogdataai
Preset Blog is the company blog at preset.io, writing about data and ai. Since 2019, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 80 times, most often “The Case for Dataset-Centric Visualization”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Preset's blog for Apache Superset how-tos, release notes and tool comparisons, mostly in threads about BI tools and data visualisation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AI-native business intelligence built on Apache Superset™. Dashboards, embedded analytics, self-service exploration, and conversational AI — all open source, enterprise-grade, and built for the AI era.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-10-03
- The Case for Dataset-Centric Visualization2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-04
- How the Modern Data Stack Is Reshaping Data Engineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-01
- The Future of Business Intelligence Is Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-09
- The Data Engineering Paradox: Why We're Still Reinventing the Wheel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-03
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a bit about that here: https://preset.io/blog/2021-4-1-why-echarts/
Comment linking /blog/2021-4-1-why-echarts/
on “Apache ECharts”Submitted Apache Superset 1.0 Released as a story · 18 points
HN discussionApache Superset switched many of their interesting charts over to ECharts: https://preset.io/blog/2021-4-1-why-echarts/
Comment linking /blog/2021-4-1-why-echarts/
on “Apache ECharts”Submitted Which Open-Source Data Integration Tool Is Right for Your Project? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionUnfortunately information about new releases are not available on the superset website, but only at Preset.io: https://preset.io/blog/superset-3-0-release-notes/
Comment linking /blog/superset-3-0-release-notes/
on “Apache Superset”Submitted Adopting Claude Code: Riding the Software Economics Singularity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt should be possible (have not tried myself): https://preset.io/blog/accessing-apis-with-superset/ "Shillelagh (ʃɪˈleɪlɪ) is a Python library and CLI that allows you to query many resources (APIs, files, in memory objects) using SQL. It's both user and developer friendly, making it trivial to access resources and easy to add support for new ones" https://github.com/betodealmeida/shillelagh
Comment linking /blog/accessing-apis-with-superset/
on “Apache Superset”Submitted Building a Metrics Dashboard with Superset and Cube as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWell, it's free! Or significantly cheaper even if you opt to use Preset to run a hosted/managed/compliant version of it, and not have to deal with config/security/upgrades/migrations. This article is a year old, but it might help a bit: https://preset.io/blog/apache-superset-vs-tableau/
Comment linking /blog/apache-superset-vs-tableau/
on “Apache Superset”Submitted The Future of Business Intelligence Is Open Source as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou can style dashboards with CSS as much as you'd like, though there are some limitations (canvas/webGL elements). I wrote a whole blog post on it: https://preset.io/blog/customizing-superset-dashboards-with-... If you want to style the whole application, you can fork the repo and go bananas. If you're looking for theming, there's more to be done yet on that front, and I wrote an article on that too: https://preset…
Comment linking /blog/theming-superset-progress-update/
on “Apache Superset”Submitted The Data Engineering Paradox: Why We're Still Reinventing the Wheel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo built-in thick semantic layer, compared to Looker. I wrote about Superset's semantic layer here: https://preset.io/blog/understanding-superset-semantic-layer... One popular option is to use dbt or Cube for the semantic layer and pair with Superset: https://preset.io/blog/announcing-presets-ui-integration-wit... and https://preset.io/blog/open-source-looker-cube-superset/
Comment linking /blog/open-source-looker-cube-superset/
on “Apache Superset”Submitted Apache Superset Dashboards as Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think that there is an active company behind Superset called Preset. https://preset.io/ I don't think it's semi-abandoned. I had a brief interaction with the project in my previous job, and I found the community and the company to be reasonably engaged and responsive.
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on “Apache Superset”Submitted Understanding the Superset Semantic Layer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHad a very good experience with Superset. Superset allowed us to replace Tableau and not looking back Took me a while figure out how to embed it into my app using Superset Embedded SDK. Superset Embedded SDK - "Embedded SDK allows you to embed dashboards from Superset into your own app, using your app's authentication. Embedding is done by inserting an iframe, containing a Superset page, into the host application."…
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on “Apache Superset”Submitted The Analytics Everywhere Podcast by Maxime Beauchemin as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSet to be end of life in November after Databricks Acquired it. Try Superset / Preset https://preset.io/
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on “Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools”Submitted How the Modern Data Stack Is Reshaping Data Engineering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWorlds apart, superset provides powerful visualisation capabilities, but is very difficult to use/setup/maintain (although they just launched as a company [0], so perhaps that will change). Metabase is a very easy to use data exploration, data vis and reporting tool designed to give insights into data in an easy/self service way for mostly non-technical users. I've POC'd both, and would recommend Metabase or redash…
Comment linking /blog/2019-10-09-series-a-announcement/
on “Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?”Submitted Visualizing Python Package Downloads Using Google BigQuery and Apache Superset as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm very excited about ECharts, Superset is moving all of their charts to ECharts (I wrote about this in fact: https://preset.io/blog/2021-4-1-why-echarts/ )
Comment linking /blog/2021-4-1-why-echarts/
on “Observable Plot”Submitted Build Time Series Charts with Apache Superset as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPreset ( http://preset.io/ ) | San Mateo, CA or Remote | Full-time | Multiple roles in CS, Marketing, Product, & Engineering Preset is a modern business intelligence platform designed to support all data users in an organization. Founded and lead by Maxime Beauchemin (the original creator of Apache Airflow and Apache Superset), Preset is about to launch our cloud-hosted offering of Apache Superset. We're very well c…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)”Submitted Why Apache ECharts Is the Future of Apache Superset as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSince superset, metabase and redash was mentioned, I'll share some development insights regarding these OSS projects. Note, I've never used these solutions before, so I can't speak to their quality, but I can speak to how active and invested they appear to be. Looking at recently merged pull requests that were less than 120 days old, apache/superset had 89 unique authors, which is very high, as the following shows:…
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on “Ask HN: Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?”Submitted The Data Engineer's Guide to Fast Apache Superset Dashboards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm a committer to the Apache Superset project ( http://superset.apache.org/ ), which can talk to any SQL speaking database through SQLAlchemy: https://superset.apache.org/docs/databases/installing-databa... Majority of Superset users use the no-code Explore UI in Superset to create charts. We recently wrote about the big 1.0 release here ( https://preset.io/blog/2021-01-18-superset-1-0/ )
Comment linking /blog/2021-01-18-superset-1-0/
on “Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends”Submitted The Struggle for Code Reuse in the Data Transformation Layer as a story · 2 points
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