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Velvet is now part of Arize

Company blog · usevelvet.com/articles · on HN as chrisjhaidata

Velvet is now part of Arize is the company blog at usevelvet.com, writing about ai and data. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Show HN: Velvet – Data platform with an AI SQL editor”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4HN people?
2024–2024first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters mention Velvet only as an LLM gateway that tracks cost per request, and in a CodeViz launch thread. Neither comment discusses its writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Velvet is now part of Arize, the enterprise platform for AI evaluation and observability.

The author on HN?

chrisjh · 11 karma · member since 2014

Co-founder at Velvet (usevelvet.com) Get in touch at chris@usevelvet.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-15
  2. Show HN: Velvet – Data platform with an AI SQL editor
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Shameless plug – we're working on this at Velvet ( https://usevelvet.com ) and would love feedback. Our tool can connect and query across disparate data sources (databases and event-based systems) and allows you to write natural language questions that are turned automatically into SQL queries (and even make those queries into API endpoints you can call directly!). My email is in my HN profile if anyone wants to try…

    Comment linking /

    on “Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database”
  2. Submitted Show HN: Velvet – Store OpenAI requests in your own DB as a story · 109 points

    HN discussion
  3. I like your thing. I have been forcing my bot to give me Mermaid diagrams, swim diagrams, markup tables of schemas, code, logic etc... I like where you guys are going, but what I think would be really fun - would be a Node Based diagram logic, where the boxes that you show in the diagram are Code-geometry-Nodes - and could be connected with code blocks as such. Watch @HarryBlends videos on Geometry Nodes in Blender…

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    on “Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code”
  4. Submitted Show HN: Warehouse OpenAI requests to your own database as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  5. That’s a deep question. Under the hood we use some LLM gateways like Helicone and https://usevelvet.com to track cost per request and optimize it.

    Comment linking /

    on “Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn”
  6. Submitted Show HN: Velvet – Data platform with an AI SQL editor as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted We use OpenAI to automate our data copilot as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How to optimize LLM features after launch as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Tactics for going beyond 0-1 with LLMs? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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