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Prowork by Parabola
Company blog · parabola.io/blog · on HN as alexyaseenprogrammingbusinessproductivity
Prowork by Parabola is the company blog at parabola.io, writing about programming, business and productivity. Since 2016, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked pages are product pages for Parabola, a no-code tool for automating data and workflow processes. Commenters mention it as a tool option or in hiring posts rather than discussing its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Prowork answers questions, builds reports, and runs processes. You can inspect the data and logic at every step, change any calculation, and feel confident in the results.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-07-07
- Parabola: Now anyone can perform sophisticated data analysis with ease3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-11-30
What Hacker News says?
Parabola ( https://parabola.io ) | Software Engineering, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco (SOMA) | Full-time At Parabola, we’re building software that enables non-technical users to work with their data as effectively as an engineer without needing spreadsheets or code. We're creating the perfect combination of an ETL tool and a spreadsheet, wrapped in an intuitive and highly visual interface. It makes data easy to…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming as a story · 291 points
HN discussionParabola ( https://parabola.io ) | Software Engineering, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco (SOMA) | Full-time At Parabola, we’re building software that enables non-technical users to work with their data as effectively as an engineer without needing spreadsheets or code. We are creating the perfect combination of an ETL tool and a spreadsheet, wrapped in an intuitive and highly visual interface. It makes data easy to…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Parabola: Now anyone can perform sophisticated data analysis with ease as a story · 63 points
HN discussionParabola.io | San Francisco (SOMA) | Full-time | ONSITE Parabola is eliminating the busywork in knowledge workers' daily tasks. Our drag-and-drop web app lets marketing, sales, and operations people build functional data flows to automate processes, integrate tools, and generate custom reports. We're a small but highly focused team backed with seed funding from some of the top VCs in Silicon Valley. We're always int…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Building a language, IDE, and serverless runtime for spreadsheet-style logic as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSorry to hear about the closure, Aaron. If you or your colleagues are interested, Parabola Labs is hiring React and Node engineers in SF. We build tools that let non-technical people leverage data science and automation. https://parabola.io/ Feel free to email me at brian [at] parabola.io
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on “SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices”Submitted The power of programming for people who use spreadsheets as a story · 4 points
HN discussionParabola | Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer | Full Time | Onsite | San Francisco, CA | https://parabola.io Parabola is building the future of work by enabling all employees to leverage the power of technology. As the world continues to become more technical, all people will need access to technology, but not all people need or want to become engineers. With Parabola, workers automate their data processes…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)”The target audience of this tool consists of application developers that want to create new applications that require their end users to author graph like structures. They can use this tool and avoid re-implementing basic interactive features like drag & drop, panel management, zooming, undo/redo, etc. Examples of such applications within AWS would be AWS IoT events & AWS IoT Things graph (existing customers), AWS S…
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on “Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization”Love the UI. One bit of feedback: on https://parabola.io/ under "Self Documenting and Repeatable" I keep clicking the play buttons in the screenshot.
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on “Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming”Hi HN! I’m Alex from Parabola ( https://parabola.io ). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing. I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companie…
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on “Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming”Thanks for taking a look! We decided to limit the initial launch and plan to add more cities next week, but that doesn't mean you can't have a playlist for your city now. If you're interested, you can use the link below to clone the Parabola flow I used to create the playlists. You'll be able to create arbitrarily many playlists for cities of your choosing. The only potentially sticky parts are that you'll need to a…
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on “Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week”At risk of shamelessly promoting, we built Parabola ( https://parabola.io ) with many of these same best practices in mind. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17147272
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on “Data Organization in Spreadsheets”Parabola Labs (NYC / SF) | Enterprise Account Exec | Full-time | On-site Hybrid We’re hiring an Enterprise AE to scale Parabola, a product used by finance and ops teams to automate messy, high-stakes workflows without needing engineers. Parabola sits at the intersection of AI, automation, and real operational pain: unstructured data (PDFs, emails), brittle processes, constantly changing rules, and teams that can’t w…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)”Hey guys, I posted this maybe a year ago. It was originally an electron based desktop app which was cool but pretty hard to maintain / get people to download and test it out. Given that there would likely always need to be a cloud component regardless I decided that it would be easier to port it over into a web app and maintain it that way. Since doing that I took a job and am pretty burned out on the project. I was…
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on “Show HN: Glue – Pandas as a DAG (Now a web app)”You're talking about a "strictly no-code audience" who are just building backends? That'd be a very strange situation if you asked me since audiences that are somewhat technical in the first place are usually not put off by a little bit of optional code. Here are a few products that are close but not spot on: * https://parabola.io/ * https://useparagon.com/ * https://n8n.io/
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on “Ask HN: What are some no-code tools for the back end?”https://parabola.io/ https://pipedream.com/ https://autocode.com/ I think the first is no-code while the two others are more like low-code (pipedream is simpler and free offer may be enough for you)
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on “Ask HN: Is There a Zapier for APIs?”Hi HN, At https://parabola.io , many of our best users are trying to leverage other APIs but don't quite know how to use them or how to read their docs. We realized there weren't many good resources out there, so we put together this friendly guide to help our users. But it really deserves a place out in the wild! The guide also comes with a fully working example API that is open source, so you can learn how APIs ar…
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on “Show HN: How to work with APIs”