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Veezoo
Company blog · veezoo.com/blog · on HN as tillvzdatabusiness
Veezoo is the company blog at veezoo.com, writing about data and business. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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25mentions?
3HN people?
2018–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Veezoo as a natural-language tool for querying business data and link its product comparison videos. The comments are product mentions, mostly by its co-founder, not praise of the writing.
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.
Built to empower every business user to ask, understand, and act on data with confidence. Powered by AI, Knowledge Graphs, and Curiosity.
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- /2 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2018-08-01
What Hacker News says?
Veezoo AG | Software Developer Backend | Zurich, Switzerland | 100% | Onsite | INTERN or FULL | https://www.veezoo.com Veezoo is an ETH Zurich Spin-off providing a conversational AI solution to help sales people make data-driven decisions. Key Responsibilities - Develop solutions for real world, large-scale problems with renowned customers - Designing, programming, documenting, testing and refactoring code - Collabo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted Crucial Keys to Create a Data-First Company Culture as a story · 7 points
HN discussionVeezoo AG | Software Developer Backend | Zurich, Switzerland | 80-100% | Onsite | INTERN or FULL | https://www.veezoo.com Veezoo is an ETH Zurich Spin-off with about 10 employees providing a conversational solution to analyze and visualize data for banks and insurance companies. Key Responsibilities - Develop solutions for real world, large-scale problems with renowned customers - Designing, programming, documenting…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Veezoo and dbt Integration to promote data literacy and democratization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVeezoo AG | Software Developer Backend | Zurich, Switzerland | 80-100% | Onsite | INTERN or FULL | https://www.veezoo.com Veezoo is an ETH Zurich Spin-off with about 10 employees providing a conversational solution to analyze and visualize data for banks and insurance companies. Key Responsibilities - Develop solutions for real world, large-scale problems with renowned customers - Designing, programming, documenting…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Veezoo AG | Software Developer Backend | Zurich, Switzerland | 100% | Onsite | INTERN or FULL | https://www.veezoo.com Veezoo is an ETH Zurich Spin-off providing a conversational AI solution to help sales people make data-driven decisions. Key Responsibilities - Develop solutions for real world, large-scale problems with renowned customers - Designing, programming, documenting, testing and refactoring code - Collabo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”Veezoo AG | Software Developer Backend | Zurich, Switzerland | 80-100% | Onsite | https://www.veezoo.com Veezoo is an ETH Zurich Spin-off with about 10 employees providing a conversational solution to analyze and visualize data for banks and insurance companies. Key Responsibilities - Develop solutions for real world, large-scale problems with renowned customers - Designing, programming, documenting, testing and ref…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”veezoo.com | Frontend Engineer | Zurich, Switzerland | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.veezoo.com Everybody talks about data! All companies have it, but most of them don't use it properly. The problem is that most people inside companies don't have the time or skills to find the insights hidden in the data. What if you could join us in our mission to create the company brain - a brain that is able to answer the que…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Veezoo AG | Software Developer Backend | Zurich, Switzerland | 80-100% | Onsite | https://www.veezoo.com Everybody talks about data! All companies have it, but most of them don't use it properly. The problem is that most people inside companies don't have the time or skills to find the insights hidden in the data. What if you could join us in our mission to create the company brain - a brain that is able to answer…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Veezoo AG | Software Developer Backend | Zurich, Switzerland | 80-100% | Onsite | INTERN or FULL | https://www.veezoo.com Veezoo is an ETH Zurich Spin-off with 10+ employees providing a conversational solution to analyze and visualize data for banks and insurance companies. Key Responsibilities - Develop solutions for real world, large-scale problems with renowned customers - Designing, programming, documenting, tes…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”Having an LLM be in charge of business logic is madness. There cannot be any AI involved when processing the definition of a KPI. Otherwise you'll never be able to roll it out to thousands of users when there's always a 90% (or even 99%) chance that the business logic might not get applied correctly. Check out what we do at Veezoo ( https://www.veezoo.com ) with the Knowledge Graph / Semantic Layer to mitigate that.
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on “Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model”Agree that an approach that more semantically models the data is better, especially when you want to eventually let the non-technical users ask questions. When you're on a higher abstraction level, it also allows you to make clear definitions (e.g. for certain KPIs) and define business logic that always needs to be applied to get the correct results. There you don't want to leave it up to chance that a filter gets h…
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on “Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model”If you like the idea of asking questions from your data in plain English, there are also other alternatives to Power BI, like Tableau's Ask Data, ThoughtSpot and Veezoo (free for 5 users). Here is a series of comparison videos to show their strengths: https://veezoo.com/compare-solutions/ Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders of Veezoo.
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on “Ask HN: Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?”Slightly related: If you wanna analyze all product hunt posts until july 2021 yourself you can do so here: https://veezoo.com/phdemo Disclaimer: I created that demo
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on “Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?”Completely agree! A semantic layer is essential for scaling analytics to enterprise complexity. Another alternative here is Veezoo [0], which combines the semantic layer (a Knowledge Graph) and self-service analytics into one integrated solution. We built it specifically for the analytics use-case for both the "data persona" to manage the semantic layer, as well as for the "business persona" to analyze the data. If…
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on “Building AI agents to query your databases”Hey that's very cool and works surprisingly well! At Veezoo ( http://www.veezoo.com ) we have been tackling this problem for over 5 years now. Under the hood we are using our own models. With GPT-3 we're a bit worried about the lack of fine-grained control needed for productive use-cases and obv. also lock in. Will try out against the same dataset and see how it compares!
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on “Show HN: Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data”I agree that the term "self-service analytics" (especially the 'analytics' part) and "insights" just passes the wrong image of the real need of business users out there. It mixes 'strategic insights' with 'operational needs'. And I think self-service needs to be about operationalizing data. Sales managers are not necessarily looking to 'analyze' data or 'get an insight'. They need answers from data to manage their t…
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on “Ask HN: Lessons learned from implementing user-facing analytics / dashboards?”Trust & explainability is the biggest issue here. We've been building natural language analytics at Veezoo ( https://www.veezoo.com/ ) for 10 years, and what we find is that straight Text-to-SQL doesn't scale. If AI writes SQL directly, you're building on a probabilistic foundation. When a CFO asks for revenue the number can't just be correct 99% of times. Also you can't get the CFO to read SQL to verify. We're solv…
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on “OpenAI's In-House Data Agent”"So is enterprise conversational BI impossible in 2023? Will there be a few more years of academic papers and company AI hackathon projects before a solution can be deployed in production? We don’t think so." -- from the medium article. Want to put your attention to https://www.veezoo.com as well. A conversational self-service analytics solution that's been around since 2016 and productively deployed in fortune 500…
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on “Show HN: Dataherald AI – Natural Language to SQL Engine”Veezoo ( https://www.veezoo.com ) is built to make it as easy as possible for nontechnical users to get answers to their ad-hoc questions. Follows a conversational "ChatGPT-like" approach since already 2016. Info: I'm one of the founders.
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on “Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens”We are following this approach at Veezoo ( https://www.veezoo.com ). When Veezoo connects to a database / dwh for the first time, an initial Semantic Layer / Knowledge Graph gets built automatically based on the data itself. We try to recognize how the columns link to other tables, try to identify units, and other semantic information e.g. if something is a "Location" or a "Country" and so on. The whole conversation…
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on “A LLM+OLAP Solution”At Veezoo ( https://veezoo.com ) we're about to launch a MongoDB connector leveraging Trino, hit me up if you wanna test it.
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on “Show HN: I built a database GUI with ChatGPT integration”People usually perceive a trade-off between precision and ease of use. I think that, if done naively, natural language interfaces will indeed lead to imprecise and inconsistent answers. But it doesn't have to be like this. From my experience building Veezoo[1], natural language interfaces for data can be very powerful for business users as long as it explains back understandably what the query does, allows to modify…
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on “The Future of Applications”